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

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 ...

Take a moment to think about how many professional opportunities would have to slip through your fingers before you seriously ...

Narrative Feature Competition Director: Matthew Shear Logline: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic ...

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

It is probably no accident that among Matthew Shear’s acting credits are no less than four movies directed by New York ...

Mega Man and Mighty No. 9 creator Keiji Inafune left Level-5 last year, and a massive overhaul of Fantasy Life i: The Girl ...

Producer Keiji Inafune left Level-5 last year, with the development team describing his departure as an "unexpected challenge ...

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.

That should give you a sense of how much Sam (Matthew Shear) has going for himself in “Fantasy Life.” A once-promising law student whose crippling anxiety has slowed his legal career ...