The holidays are in full swing, and this Christmas brings a good slate of options for cinephiles. We've compiled the best Blu-ray sets, books, albums, games, and more that are tailored to our tastes here at The Film Stage, and which we hope our readers will enjoy giving (or treating themselves to)....
While year-end roundtables with actresses and writers might garner more attention, one of the more fascinating discussions each year features cinematographe...
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we've taken it upon ourselves to ...
Just over two weeks in release, David Fincher's Gone Girl is shaping up to be one of the director's most successfully films, recently crossing the $100 mill...
Going through a number of iterations, first with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, then Ben Affleck and Kristen Stewart, the con artist drama Focus finally settl...
“The sooner you look like yourself, the sooner you will feel like yourself.” People tell a lot of lies in Gone Girl, but perhaps none as big as that one. This is a film in which appearances and images of everything, from the big picture to the tiniest details, cannot be trusted....
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuse...
Something is wrong from the very first moments of Gone Girl, David Fincher's sinister, immensely entertaining tenth film and an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s pu...
"I was looking for something I’d never seen before. The book talked about narcissism in a really interesting way—the way we concoct not only an ideal versio...
