Kenichi Ugana’s Digital Nightmare: The Curse Haunts Fantastic Fest 2025

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By Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse was still buzzing from the electric premiere of The Curse at Fantastic Fest 2025 when I caught up with Kenichi Ugana, the Japanese genre maestro whose latest film had the audience gripped by a chilling vision of social media’s dark side. Over the clink of glasses and the hum

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Ben Masters on Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers, Ethan Hawke & His Hail Mary Peak Living: Ben Masters Talks Deep

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Ben Masters sat in the back of a packed house with a full orchestra and called it peak living. Then he told Paul Salfen what he wants Texas to do with its rivers. AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen talks with the Fin & Fur Films director about Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers,

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“A Dark, Romantic, Psychedelic Musical Odyssey” | Adam Egypt Mortimer Interview PATHETIC FALLACY

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Adam Egypt Mortimer talks with AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen and Lillian Powell after the Fantastic Fest 2026 world premiere of Pathetic Fallacy — a 35mm psychedelic horror-musical about love, death, and the price of bringing someone back. AMFM_Mortimer_Pathetic_Fallacy_Paul_Salfen

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A Lot Of People Talk To Animals. Not Many People Listen.

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Animal coordinator Andrew Simpson has the job other people invent at ten. Then David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast showed up with Brad Pitt, a combat German Shepherd named Odin, and New Zealand standing in for Alaska. In this AMFM exclusive, Managing Editor Paul Salfen talks to Simpson about the surreal set days, why listening

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A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.

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Animal coordinator Andrew Simpson has the job other people invent at ten and then get told is not a living. Scripts arrive every week. Then David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast landed with Brad Pitt, a combat German Shepherd named Odin, and New Zealand standing in for Alaska — and Simpson called it a no-brainer.

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A Lot Of People Talk To Animals. Not Many People Listen.

A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.

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Kenichi Ugana’s Digital Nightmare: The Curse Haunts Fantastic Fest 2025

A Lot Of People Talk To Animals. Not Many People Listen.

A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.

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“A Dark, Romantic, Psychedelic Musical Odyssey” | Adam Egypt Mortimer Interview PATHETIC FALLACY

A Lot Of People Talk To Animals. Not Many People Listen.

A Lot of People Talk to Animals. Not Many Listen.