Dan Mecca
Co-Founder and Managing Editor at The Film Stage
Co-Founder of @thefilmstage, Co-Host of @tfsbside, stories at @fathomstories & filmmaker.
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1 week ago |
letterboxd.com | Dan Mecca |Ella Kemp |Alex Kurtzman |Roberto Orci
The set pieces in the Mission: Impossible series are already the stuff of legend, and the franchise isn’t even finished yet (though this latest film may be it). Name a Mission: Impossible movie, and another fan could identify it with the stunt: “Oh, that’s the one where he hangs on the side of the plane.” That’s cinematic staying power. As the films have gone on, the scope and scale of each sequence has grown to match the expectation of an eager fan base.
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2 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss Clint Eastwood, the director and the movie star. Our B-Sides are Breezy, White Hunter Black Heart, Blood Work, Flags of Our Fathers, and The Mule. Our guest is the impeccable Mitchell Beaupre, Senior Editor at Letterboxd.
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3 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
20 years ago, 20th Century Fox began the summer-blockbuster season with a sword-and-sandals epic about the Crusades. Kingdom of Heaven‘s pedigree was impressive, if not bulletproof. Ridley Scott was only five years on from his Best Picture-winning Gladiator (not to mention immediate hit follow-ups Hannibal and Black Hawk Down, both in 2001) and newly minted movie star Orlando Bloom had plum, stand-out roles in two successful franchises (one of which had just won Best Picture itself).
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4 weeks ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. It’s a day to celebrate! We discuss the legend Maggie Cheung! Our B-Sides include Lost Romance (a.k.a. Story of Rose), Full Moon in New York, Green Snake, and Sausalito. Our esteemed guest for this episode is Nick Newman, host of the Emulsion podcast for The Film Stage.
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1 month ago |
thefilmstage.com | Dan Mecca
WhenJames Madigan’s action picture Fight or Flight works it’s because of Josh Hartnett. The premise is fairly simple: a nefarious, black-ops government agency led by a fierce Katee Sackhoff is forced to employ the dormant skills of an exiled mercenary (Hartnett) in order to protect an asset named Isha (Charithra Chandran) on an airplane. The reasons are, of course, not altruistic. And the other twist: the majority of passengers are determined to kill the asset for a hefty bounty.
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