After getting fired from his job, a 30something paralegal finds a new gig as a "manny" for a wealthy family in this SXSW ...

Matthew Shear makes an auspicious feature debut with a portrait of an actress (Amanda Peet) and her babysitter who feel as if ...

After years of waiting, cozy gamers can finally preorder this highly anticipated competitor to Stardew Valley & Animal ...

Fantasy Life's Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet & Alessandro Nivola discuss mental health, blending comedy with reality & ...

The Girl Who Steals Time are now available for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 via PlayStation Store, Xbox Series via Microsoft Store, ...

Three of the more purely enjoyable films to play at this year’s SXSW didn’t premiere with star-studded red carpets at the ...

SXSW on Monday said that Matthew Shear’s Fantasy Life, Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal’s reteam The Accountant 2 and Paige ...

Fantasy Life made me chuckle out loud only occasionally, and its drama is pitched perhaps too modestly. I left the theater with the faint sense of anticlimax, having wanted to be more moved or ...

Against that framing, the SXSW debut Fantasy Life plays, accidentally, like the flip side to that equation, with its focus on his perspective and its less starry-eyed, more downbeat tone.

There are times when things can get a little too comfortable for an audience — the general trajectory of “Fantasy Life” isn’t much of a surprise, and the film is quite easy on the eye.

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as ...