Browsing: women directors

Documentary

August 12, 20260By christine

Cookie Queens: How One Documentary Turns Girl Scout Season Into a Powerful Coming-of-Age Story About Ambition, Fairness, and Listening to Girls

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Interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine Girl Scout Cookie season is one of America’s most familiar rituals—boxes stacked on folding tables, determined kids in uniform, parents hovering nearby. But in Cookie Queens, director Alysa Nahmias peels back the sugar-coated surface to reveal something far more complex: the real joys, pressures,

Movie Reviews

September 22, 20260By christine

I Get Paid to Scream: The Heretiks Bring Witchcraft, Apple Boxes, and a 4 A.M. Woods Crew to Fantastic Fest

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In a karaoke room at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Paul Salfen sat down with the traveling circus behind The Heretiks — director Gregg Bishop, writers Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins, and the actors who spent Halloween night locked in a house with a coven that wanted sunrise to come too late. The world-premiere tape is

Majors

September 22, 20260By christine

One Bite at a Time: Walter Hill Takes Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Award and Names The Warriors as the Hail Mary

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Walter Hill walked the Fantastic Fest opening-weekend carpet at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar as the festival’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement honoree — the first recipient to get a nationwide Alamo retrospective. Before the award and a screening of Extreme Prejudice, AMFM’s Paul Salfen asked the Warriors and 48 Hrs. director about El Paso heat, Rip Torn’s

Movie Reviews

September 18, 20260By christine

Drink Your Milk. Mind Your Mom. Don’t Take Any Shit From Anybody.

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Summer is supposed to end. Tiny Fugitives treats that idea like a dare. In this AMFM exclusive, Paul Salfen sits down with Johnny Knoxville and three of the film’s twelve-year-old leads — Benjamin Pajak, Aaron Harris, and Isa Bernal Steiner — as Michael Lewen’s Point Grey camp comedy hits theaters. They talk flag football after

Movie Reviews

September 17, 20260By christine

She Almost Slept In. Then Hulu Threw the Hail Mary

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We’ve Given You Enough: Paul Greengrass and Andrew Garfield on Why THE UPRISING Feels Like Now

I Get Paid to Scream: The Heretiks Bring Witchcraft, Apple Boxes, and a 4 A.M. Woods Crew to Fantastic Fest

One Bite at a Time: Walter Hill Takes Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Award and Names The Warriors as the Hail Mary

Drink Your Milk. Mind Your Mom. Don’t Take Any Shit From Anybody.

THE WEEKND ‘After Hours Til Dawn Tour’ at Dallas AT&T Stadium August 28, 2025

MUSE at Dos Equis Pavilion August 14, 2026 (photos)

ECHO Resounds in Dallas: Cirque du Soleil Returns to the Big Top in Grand Prairie

Simple Plan’s BIGGER THAN YOU THINK Tour with LoLo, 3OH3, and Bowling For Soup

Asia’s #1 Rock Guitarist Tak Matsumoto Talks New Supergroup TMG Release “Crash Down Love” (Interview)

Stanley Jordan Lets the Eagle Fly: A Fourteen-Year Silence, a Decade-Old Vault, and One Hail Mary

These People’s Stories Have to Be Shared: John Cunningham and Ted Haynes on Occupational Hazard

Still Searching at 85: Motown Legend Martha Reeves Climbs the Charts and Proves Great Art Has No Expiration Date

Browsing: women directors

Cookie Queens: How One Documentary Turns Girl Scout Season Into a Powerful Coming-of-Age Story About Ambition, Fairness, and Listening to Girls

One Bite at a Time: Walter Hill Takes Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Award and Names The Warriors as the Hail Mary

THE UPRISING Movie Minute Review

What If I Don’t Like the Ploughman? Jamie Bell on Faith, Fury, and Paul Greengrass’s THE UPRISING

The Internet Before the Internet: Brian Boone, the Third UNCLE JOHN, on 39 Years in the Stall

She Quit the Cubicle. Then She Wrote the Serial Killer Husband

The Only Black Girl on the Ghost Tour: How a Brunch Joke Became Tiffany D. Jackson’s Spine-Tingling Savannah Mystery GHOST IN THE NIGHT

I Get Paid to Scream: The Heretiks Bring Witchcraft, Apple Boxes, and a 4 A.M. Woods Crew to Fantastic Fest

One Bite at a Time: Walter Hill Takes Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Award and Names The Warriors as the Hail Mary

Drink Your Milk. Mind Your Mom. Don’t Take Any Shit From Anybody.

She Almost Slept In. Then Hulu Threw the Hail Mary