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I should really stop being surprised when Jeremy Saulnier surprises me. In his fourth feature, his third film that I would have to describe as pure genius, director Jeremy Saulnier once again takes a perfect script from Macon Blair and turns it into cinematic gold. Despite being based on a book, albeit one I've never

Confined spaces. Plight and fear. Lack of leadership. These are things that bring out the…

By Bears Rebecca Fonte As members of the modern world we often forget that America is a landscape dominated by wide open spaces. There was a time that people lived in places where they could go months at a time without seeing another face or at least another face outside of their own marriage. If

Preview By Bears Rebecca Fonte If this is the year of the woman in politics then it seems possible that it might finally be the year of the woman at Fantastic Fest. For the uninitiated, Fantastic Fest is the annual gathering in Austin at the Alamo South Lamar, to celebrate the most boundary-pushing genre film.

Can we stop pretending that a film like Drew Barnhart’s RONDO is an acceptable film…

By Bears Rebecca Fonte There's an argument to be made that video games and not filmmaking are the true zenith of visual storytelling. With that in mind, I dove into the new documentary PLAYING HARD which follows the production of the video game For Honor through a four-year process from pitch to launch. Giving unprecedented

I’m not going to suggest that I have any idea what it means to…

By Bears Rebecca Fonte The last film I saw for Fantasia was Robert Krzykowski's THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN BIGFOOT and it saved my whole festival. Having watched a number of features big on blood but lacking heart, this Sam Elliott drama shook me by the soul in a way films rarely do.

Review by Bears Rebecca Fonte Time travel films are absolutely my favorite so I was super pumped to watch the new Mega Time Squad from New Zealand director Tim van Dammen. Johnny (Anton Tennet) is a small-time crook looking to make his own luck. When a job stealing money from a local Chinese gang goes

By Bears Rebecca Fonte There is no point in the running time that CHAINED FOR LIFE is an easy film. Writer-director Aaron Schimberg fills every minute with a sort of uncomfortable tension that assaults the viewer with their own prejudices. It is a fairly active viewing process that forces the audience to constantly reassess their