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[Review] Hanna

Best-known for his period piece adaptations of heralded literature, director Joe Wright takes on new terrain with his spy-centered thrill ride, Hanna, a twi...

Kickstart the Monarchs: Take Part in Independent Filmmaking

Here at The Film Stage, we strive to bring the most current, accurate information about new emerging or releasing project in the cinematic world. Often, the support you the viewer then show to a film your interested in is to pass on these news stories, which spreads awareness, or to hopefully see them in their opening weekend, so their box office numbers can warrant a wider release. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could make a deeper impact. Allow me to introduce you to Eugene Martin and his feature-length documentary film The Anderson Monarchs. The Anderson Monarchs are an all-girls soccer team who compete, live, and thrive in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia. The director, Eugene Martin, a critically acclaimed filmmaker whose work looks intimately at issues of youth, the inner city, poverty, and social justice, discovered the Monarchs when he began coaching his daughter’s soccer team, and was drawn to their story....