Browsing: Fantasia Film Festival 2018

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

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

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

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