One conclusion the marketing team at 20th Century Fox seem to have arrived at with their latest blockbuster fantasy Assassin's Creed is that everyone likes ...
If you don't like the result of something -- or if others don't -- do it again. That seems to be the approach by directing brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dard...
Writer-director Daniel Burman (The Lost Embrace, The Mystery of Happiness) is continuing his combination of drama and comedy with The Tenth Man, a story abo...
Because film is a visual medium, color plays an important role in characterization, setting, and psychology that goes just a little bit deeper than "RED MEA...
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho made his narrative directorial debut with 2012's Neighboring Sounds, which arrived with wide critical acclaim. This...
We've heard it before: an accomplished actor making the transition to directing his first movie -- along with starring and producing in it. While it seems t...
Once a movie studio has covered "this movie is a blast" with the Beastie Boys and "this is toweringly epic" with a more orchestral tinge, the final step is ...
While Independence Day: Resurgence isn't going over as well as the original, we found some things to appreciate. Nonetheless, Roland Emmerich is already gea...
We all have to start somewhere. Before Joel and Ethan Coen got their directorial feature Blood Simple off the ground, they needed something to show to inves...
Swiss Army Man is more than just a symphony of farts and boners -- there's quite a gorgeous score to go along with. To accompany the limited opening of the ...
Mike Mazzanti is a content project manager at a digital marketing firm by day and a screenwriter at heart. A lover of the outré and the everyday, he is the Resident Genre Enthusiast at The Film Stage and is currently based out of Washington, D.C.
