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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…

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

Interview by Bears Fonte My favorite film at SXSW this year, having had a few weeks to let it all sink in, was most certainly PROSPECT. Based on a short that played the fest a few years ago, Zeek Earl and Christopher Caldwell’s film follows a father-daughter mining team harvesting gems on a toxic planet.

The hottest new metal band from the coldest country on Earth is Impaled Rektum… or at least that’s what Finnish comedy HEAVY TRIP centers on. After twelve years of rehearsing in a garage without a gig, lead singer Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is finally ready to bring to the world what their bassist describes as ‘symphonic