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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

Review By Bears Rebecca Fonte At the heart of Justin McConnell's horror flick LIFECHANGER is a love story, the forlorn fiction of one man returning to visit his last hope again and again only to have her never remember him. The reason she doesn't remember him is that he always comes to her in a

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

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,…