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

Narrative Feature Competition Director: Matthew Shear Logline: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

SXSW: Frequent Noah Baumbach collaborator Matthew Shear makes his directorial debut with an anxious film that wears its influences on its sleeve but nevertheless sticks the landing. Take a moment ...

The younger man in question is Sam, also played by Shear. Though he was once a law school student with potential, he dropped out over mental health issues and, at the start of the film ...