The Film Stage

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2013

For our final year-end feature, we're providing a cumulative look at our favorite films of 2013 here at The Film Stage. Over the last few days a variety of co...

The Best Ensembles of 2013

While year-end discussion often singles out specific performances, it's time to give praise to the entire ensemble. Too often overlooked, we recently got a great chat with some of Hollywood's top casting directors and now, for this specific feature, praise goes to those that carefully put together the casts below. From studio comedies to dismissed dramas to small independent features, check out the ten best ensembles of the year....

The Most Overlooked Films of 2013

There's a multitude of reasons why a film may get unfairly overlooked. It could be a lack of marketing resources to give it a substantial push, or, due to a minuscule roll-out, not enough critics and audiences have viewed it to collect the champions it might require. It could simply be the timing of the film itself; even in the world of studio filmmaking, some features take time to get their due. With an increasingly crowded marketplace, it means there are more reasons than ever a film might not find an audience and, like last year, we've rounded up the releases that deserved more attention....