By Paul Salfen There’s a moment in every great interview when the jet-lag fades and the real conversation begins. For director Dylan Southern, that moment arrived somewhere between mentioning his overnight flight and the fact that he was about to board another plane to São Paulo to film Oasis’s final reunion show. In other words:
Read More
Browsing: Majors
By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine | November 21, 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterpiece, One Battle After Another, has left audiences reeling with its high-octane chases, emotional gut-punches, and a father-daughter relationship that feels ripped from real life. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a paranoid ex-revolutionary racing to save his missing teenage daughter (newcomer Chase
Read More
By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine There’s something undeniably electric about sitting down with Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, and Cailee Spaeny just hours before the world premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. The third and darkest chapter in Rian Johnson’s billion-dollar whodunit franchise reunites Daniel Craig’s inimitable Benoit Blanc with another murder
Read More
By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine November 20, 2025 At the world premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the energy in the theater was electric—laughter, gasps, and thunderous applause greeted the third and darkest chapter in Rian Johnson’s beloved whodunit franchise. A few days later, AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen sat down with
Read More
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,
Read More
In the shadowed aftermath of World War II, the Nuremberg Trials emerged as a beacon of justice, where the Allies confronted the architects of unimaginable horror. The film Nuremberg, directed by James Vanderbilt, captures this pivotal moment with unflinching intensity. At its core is the unyielding chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, portrayed by Michael Shannon,
Read More
By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine November 2, 2025 In Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-pounding 2025 Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite, the clock ticks down during an 18-minute crisis: a single, unattributed missile hurtles toward the United States, forcing the nation's leaders into a frenzy of split-second decisions that could ignite global catastrophe. Directed by the
Read More
By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine | November 2, 2025 In Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-racing apocalyptic thriller A House of Dynamite, the world hangs by a thread as a single, unattributed nuclear missile hurtles toward Chicago, forcing the U.S. government into a frantic race against time to identify the culprit and decide on a response. Premiering to
Read More
Interview by Paul Salfen By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine The neon of Macau never sleeps, and neither, it seems, does Edward Bergen. Fresh off a blockbuster that left audiences gasping, the director could have coasted into safer waters. Instead, he dove head-first into Ballad of a Small Player, a taut, glittering fever-dream about a man
Read More
By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine High above the cobblestone streets of Grubbers Nubbin sits a castle laboratory where the maddest of mad professors stitches together creatures that are… almost alive. And then forgets about them. Who keeps the chaos in check? Enter Stitch Head, the professor’s very first creation—a pint-sized, patchwork hero who’s been running
Read More