FANTASIA INTERVIEW: Damien Power’s KILLING GROUND Offers Harrowing Romantic Getaway Interrupted
Camping trip in a remote part of the Australian Outback, what could go wrong, right? …
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Fantasia Review: ANIMALS and the Duplicity of Marriage
Greg Zglinski’s surreal marital drama ANIMALS captures a couple at the crossroads of their relationship,…
“Blood will have blood” – Randall Krongard’s Shakespearean Noir BLOOD PROSE
As a former theater fiend (and MFA-wielder), I love to see the stage cast its…
SXSW Interview: Black Metal Gets The Comedy It Never Knew It Needed In HEAVY TRIP
The hottest new metal band from the coldest country on Earth is Impaled Rektum… or at least that’s what Finnish comedy HEAVY TRIP centers on. After twelve years of rehearsing in a garage without a gig, lead singer Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is finally ready to bring to the world what their bassist describes as ‘symphonic
NETFLIX: WILD WILD COUNTRY – An Overlooked Epic Battle Of Church vs. State Almost Lost To The 80’s
Interview by Bears Fonte In the middle of nowhere Oregon, a religious movement rolled in with Rolls Royces and attempted to take over the small town of Antelope. Led by spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and his publicity-hungry secretary Ma Anand Sheela, the neo-sannyasins purchased 64,000+ acres and turned an abandoned ranch into a thriving
SXSW Genre Preview 2018: All the Blood You Can Muster
SXSW is here again and with great weather, it means everyone is going to want…
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