Max Mattern
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Sep 29, 2026
ThomasHOST
And it was called River, which is a slasher film that stars Jane Levy and Jessica Roth as two sisters who are dealing with the recent passing of their father and also...
ThomasHOST
Their brother, Max Mattern, who's kind of younger, they all are in West Virginia and they go on the little pontoon boat that their dad has.
ThomasHOST
And they end up, you know, trying to dump his ashes out.
ThomasHOST
And then while they're out there, the engine line gets cut.
ThomasHOST
I like a lot of the stuff where it's, I can get the sense of like, yeah, maybe not a lot technically happens, but I really was kind of interested in the atmosphere of it.
ThomasHOST
I really like there's a lot of stuff that he does with flares in particular with the lighting.
ThomasHOST
I also liked a lot of the stuff of him building the family dynamics, because it's very clear, like, you know, Jane Levy has kind of stayed behind, she was taking care of their dad as he was getting sick, and also taking care of the brother who's younger, like, kind of like high school age, and Jessica Roth is the other sister who kind of left, and there's a lot of, like, that family turmoil.
ThomasHOST
I really believe the dynamic, I really like the...
speaker_1PANELIST
But we haven't even talked about the plot.
speaker_0HOST
Well, the plot follows three siblings, two sisters, two aforementioned actresses, and a largely unknown actor, Max Mattern, who plays the brother, the youngest brother, youngest sibling of the family.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
speaker_0HOST
And it seems like Drew and Lucy, Jane Levy's character, have continued to live in their small town.
7 MINS LATER
speaker_1PANELIST
Just because you just walked outside and like, whew, that was a crazy day.
speaker_1PANELIST
But I'll tell you, in the
speaker_0HOST
end, it is Levy's intensity as an actor that makes the third act like... shine completely shine oh yeah like god damn you're great and you just you were exactly the right actress where i'm like i'm having a hard time picturing anyone else in this role who i agree makes that third act work it's it takes it to its ending successfully
speaker_1PANELIST
what she does so well is her you could see in her face and eyes face fear, terror, and, uh, and also, uh, incredible like rage,
Chris CoxHOST
Yeah.
Chris CoxHOST
If you make those characters stand, Work and the dialogue work and you have the right actors in there for it and the kills are just cool enough
OwenPANELIST
yeah
Chris CoxHOST
then you've got yourself a solid film and river manages to accomplish that and I feel like it's for me personally who's not the world's biggest slasher guy kind of rare where I was like came out of river going.
10 MINS LATER
Chris CoxHOST
Talk about how incredibly well shot this is.
Chris CoxHOST
Yeah,
OwenPANELIST
like, there are some, like, really intense moments on, let's say, a bridge of some kind that is just, like, it's all done with just, like, this music that's going on, and there's no audio from the actors, and then you just see Jane Levy's face just, like, screaming in, like, rage and sadness at the same time.
OwenPANELIST
Like, whoa, that's so incredible looking.