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[ultimate_fancytext strings_textspeed="35" strings_backspeed="0" fancytext_strings="Directed By Christopher Alender, Written By Marcos Gabriel, Starring Brigitte Kali Canales"]Interview By Paul Salfen Synopsis When Cristina Lopez - a Mexican American reporter - returns to her ancestral homeland of Veracruz chasing a story on witchcraft and faith healers, she becomes the subject of her own story. Kidnapped by a local

[ultimate_fancytext strings_textspeed="35" strings_backspeed="0" typewriter_loop="off" fancytext_strings="Director Anne Rapp on Horton Foote, Honest Writing, and An Ode To Small Town Civilities"]Interview by Christine Thompson Horton Foote: The Road to Home from director Anne Rapp will have its World premiere at the 2020 virtual Austin Film Festival with a screening on Sunday, October 25. Coincidentally, Foote was the

Interview by Paul Salfen Fantastic Fest 2020 closed out with THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW, a horror/comedy film that was written, directed and acted by Jim Cummings (Thunder Road).  In this interview, Paul Salfen talks to Cummings about the making of the film. GET TICKETS HERE AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE NEAR YOU SYNOPSIS: Officer John Marshall has

Beyond Fest announces the first physical genre festival of the year with week-long drive-in residence…

Interview by Paul Salfen MOVIE SYNOPSIS: In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.

Sundance is here again, let the snow begin! Or not, actually, because this year I…

Interview by Paul Salfen Thomasin McKenzie  (Elsa) talks about the strangeness of seeing the beauty in a land where so much atrocity was committed during WWII while on the set of JOJO RABBIT.  Directed by Taika Waititi (THOR RAGNAROK), the film portrays JoJo as a lonely German boy who discovers that his sing mother is

I saw a lot of great films in Park City this year at Sundance,…

Interview by Paul Salfen With a filmography that runs the gamut but strikes a chord with genre fans, writer-producer-director Brian Yuzna has been churning out beloved films for years and three of those will be celebrated this weekend at the inaugural North Texas Film Festival: Re-Animator, Society, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Yuzna took

DREADOUT from Indonesian director Kimo Stamboel has to be one of the true standouts of…