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Preview By Bears Rebecca Fonte If this is the year of the woman in politics then it seems possible that it might finally be the year of the woman at Fantastic Fest. For the uninitiated, Fantastic Fest is the annual gathering in Austin at the Alamo South Lamar, to celebrate the most boundary-pushing genre film.

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

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

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.

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