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

It is probably no accident that among Matthew Shear’s acting credits are no less than four movies directed by New York filmmaker extraordinaire Noah Baumbach, or that one of his most recent is another ...

Exclusive: Amanda Peet, Alessandro Nivola, and Matthew Shear discuss their award-winning SXSW film, Fantasy Life.

After getting fired from his job, a 30something paralegal finds a new gig as a "manny" for a wealthy family in this SXSW narrative competition entry costarring Alessandro Nivola and Judd Hirsch.

INTERVIEW: Peet, filmmaker and co-star Matthew Shear, and co-star Alessandro Nivola talk about a film ripped from real life, ...

Actor-turned-director Matthew Shear makes an auspicious feature ... for an audience — the general trajectory of “Fantasy Life” isn’t much of a surprise, and the film is quite easy on ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is probably no accident that among Matthew Shear‘s acting credits are no ... in preparation for his writing-directing debut Fantasy Life, premiering at SXSW today in the Narrative Feature ...

The younger man in question is Sam, also played by Shear. Though he was once a law ... intensifies into something more consequential. Fantasy Life made me chuckle out loud only occasionally ...