Dan Mecca

[Sundance Review] The Last Mountain

In West Virginia, the victor in the fight against mountain-top mining will decide the fate of much more than mountain tops. It will determine the safety of well...

[Sundance Review] The Ledge

Poorly lit, written, directed, acted, sound-mixed, edited and anything else you can think of, Matthew Chapman's The Ledge, starring Liv Tyler, Charlie Hunna...

[Sundance Review] My Idiot Brother

It's nearly impossible to imagine anyone but Paul Rudd filling the shoes of Ned, the unbelievably amiable hero at the core of Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother....

[Sundance Review] The Future

Toeing the line between pretension and pleasure for all of its 91 minutes, Miranda July’s The Future ultimately emerges as a testament to original voice yel...

[Sundance Review] Submarine, Like Crazy

Young, star-crossed love. Every Sundance there's never a shortage of coverage on the subject. This year there's Submarine and Like Crazy, directed by Richard ...

[Sundance Review] The Nine Muses

Diving head first into identity crisis and refusing to come up for air, John Akomfrah's experimental docu-essay The Nine Muses asks us to question our own i...

[Sundance Review] Project Nim

James Marsh's documentary Project Nim, which chronicles the life of experimental chimp Nim Chimsky (like Noam Chomsky, eh eh?), poses an interesting hypothesi...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.