Year: 2025

By Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse was still buzzing from the electric premiere of The Curse at Fantastic Fest 2025 when I caught up with Kenichi Ugana, the Japanese genre maestro whose latest film had the audience gripped by a chilling vision of social media’s dark side. Over the clink of glasses and the hum

Interview by Paul Salfen The air crackles with electric anticipation at Fantastic Fest 2025, where the blood-soaked, riff-heavy sequel to 2015’s cult classic Deathgasm has just detonated. Deathgasm II: Goremageddon, written and directed by New Zealand’s maestro of metal and gore, Jason Lei Howden, is a splatter-fest that cranks the volume to eleven. The film

Interview by Paul Salfen In the cozy confines of her bakery, Danielle mixes batter with practiced ease, her husband Pat by her side, their easy banter a balm against the storm brewing inside her. At thirty-something, with a loving marriage and lively game nights with friends, life seems sweet—until a BRCA1 gene mutation test turns

In the bustling warmth of her bakery, Danielle kneads dough with a rhythm that’s almost meditative, her husband Pat tossing her a playful grin as flour dusts the air. It’s a snapshot of normalcy, a moment of joy in a life that’s been anything but ordinary lately. At thirty-something, happily married, and surrounded by her

Interview by Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin buzzed with the electric chaos of Fantastic Fest 2025, a haven for genre lovers and self-proclaimed "crazy people," as writer-director Eduardo Casanova calls them. Casanova, a returning hero after his 2022 Main Competition win with La Pietà, sat down to discuss his latest film, Silencio, a

Interview by Paul Salfen The air crackled with anticipation at Fantastic Fest 2025, where Brooke H. Cellars unveiled her audacious feature debut, The Cramps: A Period Piece. In an exclusive interview with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, Cellars peeled back the layers of her wild, genre-bending horror-comedy, revealing a deeply personal story wrapped in the vibrant,

The energy in Denis Shepherd’s voice is infectious as he sits down with AMFM Magazine to talk about his latest project, The Compatriots, a film that’s as timely as it is heartfelt. Released on September 16, 2025, across major platforms like Apple, iTunes, and Amazon, the film lands just a day before Citizen Day in

Interview by Paul Salfen In a world craving whimsy, DreamWorks Animation has sprinkled some feline-fueled magic onto the big screen with Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie. What began as a 2021 Netflix preschool sensation—created by Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey—has unboxed a global phenomenon, blending live-action surprises with an animated dollhouse realm teeming with adorable

Interview by Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse at Fantastic Fest buzzed with anticipation as the curtain lifted—figuratively, at least—on Haunted Heist, the latest genre-bending comedy-horror flick that's got audiences whispering about ghosts, heists, and heartfelt reunions. Directed by Lil Rel Howery and starring Tiffany Haddish alongside Brett Gelman and Ari Dayan, the film follows four

Interview by Paul Salfen Kula Shaker, Photo by Ami Jay Kula Shaker has always existed in an alternate reality, a luminous anomaly in the midst of Britpop’s lad-culture swagger. Emerging in the mid-’90s with Sanskrit-laced lyrics, sitar-drenched feedback, and a mystical counter-narrative, they fused British psychedelia with Eastern mysticism in a way that felt less