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Sundance is here again, opening under the shadow of the government shutdown. Harvey Weinstein  has hired Rose McGowen’s legal team, and the Oscars once again have nominated no female directors. I’m in a hotel in Wyoming, on my way, but delayed by a windstorm that closed interstate 80… somehow, I want to blame that on the government shutdown too. Anyway, this year’s festival is wide open for me. Despite some much-publicized changes in the programming team to raise more female programmers up on the team (which I fully applaud) the festival lineup feels pretty similar to years past. That doesn’t…

Shot in Dallas, Texas, Henry Dunham’s THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK feels both like a real life news story that just happened yet and a cautionary tale with just the right amount of hope that it can be avoided. Bringing to mind the work of David Mamet and Jeremy Saulnier, the tense thriller follows a

Interview by Paul Salfen One of our favorite world premieres  at Fantastic Fest, ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE is a critically acclaimed Scottish about a girl that fights (and sings!) while fighting off  zombies.  It's out in theaters now! Here's an interview with the cast by Paul Salfen.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is out this weekend, and it's wilder and darker than the first, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  The last movie left us hanging with the question "who is Credence Barebone?" and this one answers the question with a dazzling array of twists and turns, and visual effects.

How do we put a value on art? How do we put a value on anything? Modern culture is as responsible as anything for putting our own contemporary art out of reach, out of sight of most art lovers, and it’s all because we’ve declared it to have value. Nathaniel Kahn’s thought-shattering documentary THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING takes the viewer into the exclusive world of contemporary art auctions, where works by artists who most people have never heard of, can go for as much as $100 million. “There was just so much that I didn’t understand behind the scenes,” says…

Worst date ever? How about being invited to a book club by an attractive woman only to be rated on your physical attractiveness and then murdered and ground up into sausage. In Guilhad Emilio Schenker’s new thriller, MADAM YANKELOVA’S FINE LITERATURE CLUB, making its international premiere at Fantastic Fest, Sophie (Keren Mor) has been stuck

I should really stop being surprised when Jeremy Saulnier surprises me. In his fourth feature, his third film that I would have to describe as pure genius, director Jeremy Saulnier once again takes a perfect script from Macon Blair and turns it into cinematic gold. Despite being based on a book, albeit one I've never

Confined spaces. Plight and fear. Lack of leadership. These are things that bring out the character, and all elements of play in Writer/Director Amanda Kramer’s film LADYWORLD. Co-Written by Benjamin Shearn, the film plays out like psychological, female-centric version of Lord of the Flies as eight teen girls are trapped in a house after an earthquake. Every filmmaker wants their film watched on the big screen, but for me, watching this film on my monitor with the headphones, the claustrophobia that engulfs the victims of the film was overpowering. The eight girls quickly divide into two camps, led by the…

Interview by John Wisniewski This is the only book written about "the Woodstock of the Beats" - the historic 1982 Kerouac SuperSummit in Boulder where, as John Clellon Holmes put it, "more of us were together than had ever been together in one place at one time before." And nothing on this scale ever happened

AMFM MAGAZINE: You’re relatively new to the acting limelight, how are you enjoying it? Luke Prael: It’s very cool. You can learn a lot from show business. I like going on auditions and working on movies. It has been a very cool experience. AMFM: Your acting roles have been coming pretty quickly in succession. Did you have training in acting as a kid? I know you’re still a kid….(laughs) Luke: I took acting classes from when I was 3-5. Then I stopped doing it went to school In the 5th grade, I had a lot of my friends in this…