Head over to YouTube and you are most likely greeted with cats playing keyboards, testicles getting smashed, Justin Bieber music videos, adorable kids sayin...
Three members of The Film Stage attended the very first screening of Dito Montiel's third feature The Son of No One. The press & industry screening took...
Whether it is a creepy neighbor in Revolutionary Road or a disturbed federal agent from Boardwalk Empire, Michael Shannon normally doesn't snag family man rol...
Whether you like it or not, the most-buzzed about film in Sundance's 2011 line-up is Kevin Smith's Red State. His showboat antics created rampant chatter si...
Do you remember those things called cassette tapes? If you were born after 1995 you may not be familiar with recording medium that predated the CD, but befo...
With his third feature Win Win, writer/director Thomas McCarthy has created a commendable crowd-pleaser. His directorial debut The Station Agent won the Sun...
Drake Doremus' Like Crazy is an intensely personal film. Some may relate to its themes of longing and love, while others may find it disconnected and manipu...
I loved Richard Ayoade's directorial debut Submarine so much at Toronto International Film Festival (video review here), that I had to see it again during S...
With Gustavo Hernández's The Silent House premiering at Cannes last year, it has been a quick turn-around for Open Water filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura L...
The Film Stage is here at Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. We kicked off things yesterday seeing the Shorts Program Vol. 1, Project Nim, and...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
