As David Fincher awaits his first Oscar for The Social Network, he's promoting the DVD and briefly talking on his 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea adaptation fo...
Ah, the rumor mill is hot when the word Pixar's spinning around. According to Bleeding Cool (which they say is according to the blog Animatie), the 2012-sla...
Though it be writer/director Sofia Coppola's fourth film, Somewhere feels like her first. It's the kind of flawed, precious and passionate character study, ...
Like every David O. Russell film before it, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo, is an aggravatingly uneven and i...
Focusing on the shrapnel of a revolution is good cause for high drama. The means that justified an end that will never come. Writer/director Tanya Hamilton us...
All Good Things, though it has all the ingredients necessary to make a perverse thriller a la Psycho (even paying some obtuse homage to said film in the thi...
It's been a long year for former movie star Mel Gibson. Well, make it a long half-decade. Between getting drunk, pulled over, spewing anti-semitic slurs, al...
We all know Will Ferrell excels in political comedy. And Zach Galifianakis is as hot as they come right now. Director Jay Roach, though you may not know it,...
When I was kid, there were three things that fascinated me like nothing else: sharks, Indiana Jones and cheetahs. The fastest land animal, springing from ze...
Note: This is the first in a recurring TFS feature series, analyzing past stars and their journey deep into career failure and, in some cases, their way back ...
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.
