Year: 2025

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine As awards season reaches fever pitch, one name is on everyone’s lips: Jessie Buckley. Her shattering, emotionally raw performance as Agnes—the grieving mother at the heart of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet—has generated massive Oscar buzz, with critics and analysts already calling Buckley the frontrunner for Best Actress and, in many predictions,

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine | November 2025 National Adoption Month Exclusive In the remote mountains of Guatemala, a baby girl was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate—a condition so severe that doctors gave her no chance of survival. That baby should have died. Instead, she lived to tell a story of divine

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine In a lively and heartfelt conversation, identical twins Melissa and Michelle Macedo opened up about their bold new psychological body horror film Thinestra — a project where they not only star as lead character Penny and her grotesque doppelgänger but also serve as producers and composers of the haunting score.

World Premiere at AFI FEST 2024 By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine There’s a moment in JUNKIE when Rocky Shay’s Stevie—freshly escaped from yet another rehab, barefoot, broke, and vibrating on meth—looks straight into the camera and grins like the world owes her a good time. It’s chaotic, it’s messy, it’s heartbreaking… and it’s one

By Paul Salfen, exclusive for AMFM Magazine In the cutthroat arena of high finance, where deals are struck in boardrooms and dreams are crushed under spreadsheets, Bull Run emerges as a sharp existential comedy that skewers the absurdity of it all. Directed with a keen eye for the surreal, the film stars Tom Blyth (The

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine – Exclusive Henry Ian Cusick doesn’t waste a second -  “I think I’m in agreement with you,” he says, grinning. “It’s a fantastic show that keeps on getting more and more fantastic and fantastical. I’ve had a blast doing it. Season three is just out, and I believe we’ll be

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Exclusive When Kevin McNally raises his hand in a recording booth, it’s not just an actor answering the call—it’s a pirate reporting for duty. The Bristol-born star, best known as Joshamee Gibbs in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, has spent five films swashbuckling alongside Johnny Depp. But these days,

In a bold cinematic gamble that’s already sparking heated debate, first-time scripted feature director Lotfy Nathan brings the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas to the screen with The Carpenter’s Son. Starring Nicolas Cage, FKA Twigs, and Noah Jupe, the film reimagines the “missing years” of Jesus’ childhood—not as serene Nativity scenes, but as a tense,

By Paul Salfen At Fantastic Fest, where horror reigns supreme and audiences crave the next big scare, Bryan Bertino's latest psychological thriller Vicious premiered to screams and squirms. The filmmaker behind The Strangers and The Dark and the Wicked sat down with AMFM Magazine's Paul Salfen to discuss releasing his "baby" into the world, the

By Paul Salfen, Special to AMFM Magazine In the glittering world of awards ceremonies, where Hollywood's brightest stars often steal the spotlight, it's rare for a documentarian to take center stage. But on a memorable evening at the Critics Choice Awards, legendary filmmaker Ken Burns did just that. The Critics Choice Association (CCA) bestowed upon