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ACTRESS STEPHANY JACOBSEN Born in Hong Kong and raised in Australia, Stephany Jacobsen made her…

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

Interview with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal by Paul Salfen Paul Salfen interviews lifelong friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who co-wrote and star in BLINDSPOTTING.  A timely and wildly entertaining story about friendship and the intersection of race and class set against the backdrop of Oakland that is bursting with energy, style and humor. Blindspotting,

Interview by Christine Thompson Still shot of Keanu Reeves and Ana Ularu in SIBERIA (courtesy Youtube) If you're looking for John Wick 3, you're in the wrong place.  The unfortunate and inevitable comparisons to that series will convolute the story of SIBERIA, which is a different vehicle all together.  Whereas John Wick is confident, Keanu

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

THE RIDER: Brady Jandreau Says Acting and Breaking A Horse Are Very Similar Achingly beautiful, yet still and quiet, THE RIDER is a semi-autobiographical docu-drama about Brady Jandreau (acting here as Brady Blackburn),  a horse whisperer from South Dakota who is thrown violently from a bucking horse during a rodeo competition. This part of the

Review by Lilly Lilova/Chris Thompson Summary: Chronic alcoholic John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), loses the ability to use his legs after a destructive night of drinking. John blames everyone but himself for the way he turned out and the behavior that led to that fateful car crash. His journey of acceptance is guided through a small

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