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I am more than willing to admit when something is clearly not for me.  I…

Review By Bears Fonte Every year I get the privilege of covering Fantasia in Montreal, the largest genre Festival in North America, and certainly one of the most important. Usually I just enjoy a great number of screeners here in Austin, but every once in a while a film comes across my giant flat screen

Review by Bears Rebecca Fonte If you're going to make a film about cam girls, you have to be willing to get a little dirty. In Daniel Goldhaber’s feature debut CAM, making its world premiere at Fantasia, the filmmaker takes us inside the highly profitable and seductive world of amateur online modeling. Madeline Brewer from

Reviews by Bears Rebecca Fonte Cinepocalypse arrived in Chicago last month (a festival which arose from the not quite cool ashes of suburban Chicago/Wizard World Con inhabiting Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival) and touched down in downtown Chicago at the historic and totally cool Music Box Theater. The fest featured the US and Midwest premieres

There is an “otherness” that comes from watching a film from a country I don’t…

Camping trip in a remote part of the Australian Outback, what could go wrong, right? …

Greg Zglinski’s surreal marital drama ANIMALS captures a couple at the crossroads of their relationship,…

As a former theater fiend (and MFA-wielder), I love to see the stage cast its…

Hereditary is being touted as one of the scariest new movies out there, on a par with Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist.  In theaters now, Hereditary tells the story of one family's increasingly terrifying discoveries about their ancestry after the matriarch passes away.  Sinister and creepy, it even affected usually hardened film critics at SXSW.

Review and Interview by Bears Fonte Jordana Spiro’s feature debut NIGHT COMES ON opens powerfully. A young woman, a juvenile offender, waits her re-entry into the world as a cacophony of voices discuss her and her situation. Like many people in her situation, she is left without a voice. Its also a hell of a