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
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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.
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This Sunday, August 5th, Alamo Drafthouse’s Rolling Roadshow is teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures…
[interactive_banner_2 banner_title="What So Not Expands Beautiful Things World Tour" banner_desc="With a Pre-Lolapalooza Dallas Stop - Ticket Giveaway" banner_image="id^35880|url^https://www.amfm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WSN-2.png|caption^null|alt^null|title^WSN 2|description^null" banner_style="style7" banner_color_title="#000000" banner_color_desc="#000000" banner_color_bg="#ffffff" image_opacity="1" image_opacity_on_hover="1" banner_title_style="font-weight:bold;" banner_title_font_size="desktop:36px;" banner_desc_style="font-style:italic;,font-weight:bold;" banner_desc_font_size="desktop:24px;"]By Paul Salfen An appearance in town by What So Not aka Emoh Instead aka Chris Emerson is a rare thing, but the Australian producer/DJ will deliver
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The creatives at Mondo are at it again, this time with a 2-player deck-building card…
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
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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
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