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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. What begins as a family reckoning—two estranged sisters, Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve and Elle Fanning), forced back into orbit around their charismatic, unreliable filmmaker father, Gustav (stellan skarsgård), after their mother’s death—quietly becomes something larger:

Tosin Morohunfola didn’t expect Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy to feel so personal. “When I read the script,” he says, “I thought it was a holiday romance. But Tyler doesn’t do surface. This is about someone who’s been overlooked—in her career, in love—and has to face herself before she can find anything real.” In the film,

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Exclusive The snow was falling in fat, lazy flakes outside the ski lodge when Shannon Thornton stepped onto her balcony for the first time. She had a room with a balcony. In Colorado. At a resort that looked like someone had shaken a snow globe and forgotten to stop. Below

In a candid conversation with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, veteran producer John Shepherd—whose 30-plus-year career spans independent filmmaking, studio executive roles, and award-winning features—unpacks the heart behind Sarah’s Oil, the new biographical drama hitting theaters November 7. Shepherd, an NAACP Image Award winner and former Senior VP of Original Content at DreamWorks/Imagine’s POP.com, has produced

Interview by Paul Salfen In the bustling heart of Dallas, where high school dreams collide with adult realities, Adam Saunders is living a full-circle moment. The Richardson High School alum, class president turned actor-writer-director, has returned to his hometown to promote Re-Election, his 2025 comedy that blends nostalgia, laughs, and a timely plea for kindness.

Interview by Paul Salfen In the blistering expanse of 1849 Arizona Territory, where dust devils dance like omens and every horizon promises peril, Killing Faith unfolds a tale as raw as the land itself. Guy Pearce, no stranger to morally tangled characters, steps into the boots of a doctor escorting a former slave (Dewanda Wise)

The fire crackles low, the night presses in, and somewhere beyond the flickering light a child’s touch can end a life. That is the world of Killing Faith, the new supernatural Western set in the plague-scarred Arizona Territory of 1849. At its center stands Sarah—a freed woman convinced her daughter is possessed—and Dr. Bender, a

Interview by Paul Salfen In the world of indie horror-comedy, where blood splatters meet belly laughs, few films dare to swing as wildly as The Weedhacker Massacre. This gleefully absurd slasher follows a hapless cast and crew who unwittingly set up shop on the site of long-ago gruesome murders—only for the masked killer to make

Interview by Paul Salfen In the heart of the Ozark Mountains, where rolling hills hide secrets as old as the land itself, the new film Violent Ends unfolds a gripping story of love, betrayal, and the futile pursuit of vengeance. Directed by JM, this raw and unpredictable tale stars Billy Magnussen as Lucas Frost, an

Interview by Paul Salfen In the sun-baked expanse of Las Cruces, New Mexico, where white sands stretch like an otherworldly canvas and the weight of real-world struggles hangs heavy in the air, a small team of filmmakers gathered to create something extraordinary. It was here, amid national parks and late-night diners, that Oscar-nominated documentary director