I have no doubt one day director and co-writer Shana Feste will make a truly compelling masterpiece about the “New South." Her previous feature, Country Strong,...
Vampire Academy is often more fun than many brainless supernatural tween films like, for example, last year's dud The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. This is...
Love & Air Sex (formerly riddled with the far more generic title The Bounceback) is an uncanny romantic comedy, one that grows on you like a lazy weekend wi...
Verbatim theatre is a genre that aims to provide a certain kind of honesty through anonymity. Performances are derived from primary source documents like interv...
Legend has it that after 9/11, a fan rolled down his window and shouted to Bruce Springsteen, “we need you now,” inspiring the now classic album The Rising. Aft...
Written and directed by Ron Krauss, Gimme Shelter is an example of a faith-based, pro-life film done right. Often I’ve taken issue with faith-based cinema that ...
Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
Written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, Dhoom 3 is a stand-alone film that has been breaking global box-office records. If you, like me, missed the first...
All the Light in the Sky, the latest film from Joe Swanberg, brings us back to his closed world of film festivals, recruiting filmmaker pals like Ti West and So...
Paul Walker, who will forever be remembered as an action star, is an interesting choice to lead Eric Heisserer’s Hours, a drama with elements that seem borrowed...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
