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

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

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

Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet and Alessandro Nivola talk “Fantasy Life” at the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. Peet touches on how films seem to finally be focusing on what women want, ...

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

The narrative feature jury, which included IndieWire’s own Executive Editor Ryan Lattanzio, also gave Annapurna Sriram’s ...

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

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 ...

With Amanda Peet in a remarkable star turn ... that pierced me right then and there on the spot. Maybe, then, Fantasy Life is a heroine’s picture after all — just one that eventually becomes ...

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 Dianne, a ...

With Amanda Peet in a remarkable star turn ... and it’s one of the few moments in the movie that pierced me right then and there on the spot. Maybe, then, Fantasy Life is a heroine’s picture after all ...