Year: 2025

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

Interview by Paul Salfen Austin, TX – Fantastic Fest, the Mecca for all things macabre and mind-bending, is back in full swing at the Alamo Drafthouse, and this year's lineup is already dripping with dread. But few films are shrouded in as much secrecy as PRIMATE, the latest nightmare from horror maestro Johannes Roberts (47

By Paul Salfen Limp Bizkit’s Frontman Gets Real in Austin Fred Durst is no stranger to contradictions. The man who once shouted anthems of rage to stadiums full of kids in backward caps now spends his downtime digging into Bicycle Thieves and Kubrick. At Fantastic Fest 2025—the Austin mecca for genre diehards—Durst, who is a

Interview by Paul Salfen In the labyrinthine world of cinema, where genres collide and expectations are subverted, filmmaker Eugène Green’s The Tree of Knowledge emerges as a singular work—a meditative fable that defies categorization. Premiering at Fantastic Fest, the film captivated audiences with its blend of spiritual inquiry, fantastical elements, and a piercing critique of

Interview by Paul Salfen In the pantheon of slasher cinema, few films cast as long and jagged a shadow as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre—a 1974 fever dream of sweat-soaked terror that turned a low-budget indie into a visceral landmark. Now, over half a century later, one of its original survivors, Allen Danziger, emerges from