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At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, two rising stars sat down with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen to talk about the most fun, most surprising, and most unexpectedly deep project of their careers. SWITCH — the completed eight-episode independent series created by showrunners Isabelle Platt and WGA Award-winner Sofya Levitsky-Weitz — flips the classic “boy meets
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Exclusive interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine In a world facing fertilizer shortages, energy instability, and accelerating climate chaos, a powerful new documentary arrives with both urgent warning and tangible hope. Groundswell — the stirring final chapter of the groundbreaking trilogy that began with Kiss the Ground and Common Ground
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In the vibrant streets of New York, where the precise tuning of a Steinway can unlock far more than melody, TUNER delivers a stylish fusion of romance, drama, and high-stakes heist suspense. Academy Award-winning director Daniel Roher makes his narrative feature debut with this captivating story of a gifted young piano tuner whose extraordinary ear
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Exclusive interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine When the producers of the sweeping historical epic Chief of War set out to tell the story of Hawaiian unification from an authentic indigenous perspective, they needed more than costumes and sets — they needed every frame to feel lived-in, respected, and visually
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When concert pianist Mia Nox’s thoracic spine shatters in a freak accident just weeks before her Carnegie Hall solo, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. A younger lover books her coveted Lincoln Center audition, signs with her manager, and drifts toward another woman while Mia lies paralyzed, questioning whether the man she trusted is
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This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is Power Ballad, the new music-based film from John Carney, who hit us in the feels with Once, Sing Street, and Flora+Son. This time around, the story revolves around a wedding band singer, played by Paul Rudd, who moved to Ireland after
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This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is Masters of the Universe, the live action reboot of the 80s animated favorite that features He-Man and his fellow heroes battling it out against Skeletor and hordes of evil creatures. Directed by Travis Knight, an admitted fan, it's clear that the material was handled
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From Indonesian judo champion to one of Hollywood’s most respected martial arts stars, Joe Taslim has built his career on authenticity, discipline, and an unwavering willingness to embrace pain. In this exclusive AMFM Magazine interview with Paul Salfen and Remington Rafael, Taslim discusses his latest high-octane martial arts thriller The Furious, the brutal physical realities
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Interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine In an exclusive, laugh-out-loud chat with AMFM Magazine, Mads Mikkelsen beams about the sheer chaotic fun of The Last Viking, his sixth wild ride with writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s latest dark comedy finds Mikkelsen as Manfred—a man-child emotionally stuck at
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This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is Obsession, the buzzed-about horror flick from Curry Barker - and it does not disappoint. With a breakout performance from Inde Navarette as Nikki, this "careful what you wish for" tale of horror is uncomfortable in so many places and really does
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