REVIEW — Visionary director Yimou Zhang (“House of Flying Daggers, “Hero”) tells the legendar tale of a European mercenary (Matt Damon) banning together with an army of Chinese warriors to keep thousands of vicious creatures from making it beyond the Great Wall of China. Bennett and Mast let you know whether this fantasy adventure is great or not-so-great.
In Kenneth Lonergan’s Oscar nominated “Manchester By the Sea,” Casey Affleck plays a man dealing with tragedy the only way he knows how. Is this multi-award winner worthy of all the praise it’s getting? Hear what Mast and Bennett have to say about it.
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Co-hosts Bruce Bennett and Adam Mast have a long history of published movie reviews in Southern Utah, Bennett with The Spectrum and Mast with The Independent, before joining up with St. George News to launch the "Film Fanatics" show in November 2015.
The seasoned critics also maintain film-themed websites, Bennett's at madaboutmovies.org and Mast's at cinemast.net.
Both are residents of St. George, married with children, and involved in a variety of film and theater-related endeavors in the area. Mast puts on "The Guerilla Filmmaking Challenge" for local filmmakers annually as well as the "Horror-Fest." Bennett teaches communication and film studies at Dixie State University.