Dan Mecca

[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...

[Review] The Way Back

Above all else, Peter Weir's new film, The Way Back, is a challenge. Telling the 'based on a true story' tale of a group of WWII POW's escape from a Siberia...

[Review] No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached starts off with our two leads as kids at a summer camp. This first scene ends with a bold question asked by the young boy, who’ll grow up ...

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.