Slamdance Interview: ROCK STEADY ROW And The Justice Of The West (Side Of Campus)
‘The Freshman’ arrives at Rock Steady University, finding the streets empty as the broken down…
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Alex Essoe Takes The Night Back In MIDNIGHTERS – Premiering TODAY in Theaters and VOD
Review by Bears Fonte Alex Essoe Takes The Night Back In MIDNIGHTERS Watch MIDNIGHTERS on Demand - Choose Your Carrier HERE World Premiering tonight, Julius Ramsay’s debut feature MIDNIGHTERS follows a terrible car accident with a cover up aftermath that spirals out of control, forcing an already strained marriage to confront how well they really
Sundance Interview: Warwick Thornton’s SWEET COUNTRY Is The Western Australia May Finally Be Ready For
1929 Australia. A country still stretching out from settled cities into the lawless expanses of ‘the west, into territory held for tens of thousands of years by the original aboriginal inhabitants. Although Warwick Thornton’s SWEET COUNTRY has a lot in common with the American trope of ‘The Western,’ the particulars of Australian history enrich it
Sundance 2018 Review: NEVER GOIN’ BACK Pulls A Doubleshift Of Comedy
Review by Bears Fonte I'm not usually a fan of stoner comedies but Augustine Frizzell's new Sundance midnighter NEVER GOIN' BACK succeeds where almost all other stoner comedies fail. In addition to having a plot that even a non-stoner can appreciate (the quest for a birthday beach vacation), the film also features great well developed
Sundance 2018 Review: THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING Is Market-Driven
Review by Bears Fonte Jeff Koons appears in The Price of Everything by Nathaniel Kahn, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by US Four Productions. The full quote in Nathaniel Kahn’s documentary about the art market is "Some people know the
SUNDANCE 2018 Review: THE GUILTY Never Leaves You Hanging On The Line
Review by Bears Fonte Danish thriller THE GUILTY succeeds where the Tom Hardy-starring LOCKE failed miserably. Set in one location, a 9-1-1 (1-1-2 in Denmark) call center, the film trap the audience in the claustrophobia of a man trying to save an abducted woman while at his work desk. Jakob Cedergren shines as Asger, a
Bearslam: Slamdance 2018 Picks
Preview by Bears Fonte Last year two of my favorite films in Park City were from Sundance, FUTURE ’38 and actually, my favorite film of the year DAVE MADE A MAZE. With that in mind, I always scour the Slamdance schedule for outsider gems, especially genre material. At least at first glance, this year’s festival
Sundance 2018: Bears in the Climate-Challenged Snow
Preview By Bears Fonte Sundance arrives each year, kicking off the festival year and really, for people like me, the year. 2017 was rough in many ways, but one of the highlights for me personally was marching in the Women’s March on Main in Park City and the inspiring remarks from Jessica Williams. This year
LOVE AND SAUCERS – Do You Want To Believe?
Fantastic Fest documentaries can be a strange proposition. The ones about filmmakers are easy enough…
Julian Fort and Leon Russom pull off the ultimate indie heist in THE MIDNIGHTERS
Review/Interview by Bears Fonte The story behind Julian Fort’s THE MIDNIGHTERS and his star Leon Russom is similar to the one inside the film. “It was almost like a movie father and son because he’s worked in business for so long,” says the writer-director, who crossed paths with Russom time and time again at a