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
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Blood, Teacups, and Queer Resilience: Eduardo Casanova’s SILENCIO Bites Deep at Fantastic Fest 2025
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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