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By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine It’s been twenty years since Jon Heder exploded onto screens as the ultimate awkward icon Napoleon Dynamite, complete with moon boots, tater tots, and that now-legendary dance. Two decades later, Heder is back doing what he does best: playing lovable, mullet-sporting oddballs who somehow save the day. His latest

This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is Bugonia, the new Yorgos Lanthimos film and his name alone should tell you that you're in for a wild ride. With his muse Emma Stone along with Jesse Plemons returning to the fold, this trip demands that the viewer just go along

https://www.amfm-magazine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hamnet.m4a This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is Hamnet, one of the most touching films of the year that's filled with some of the best performances you'll see during awards season. Jessie Buckley is practically a shoe-in for Best Actress this year, with a dramatic and tearful turn as

By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine For decades, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was either celebrated as pop-culture royalty or vilified as the ultimate symbol of the male gaze. Few people bothered to ask the woman who actually created it what she thought it was about. In Beyond the Gaze, director Jill Campbell (Jule Campbell’s

This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is One Battle After Another, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor that's sure to be a major Oscar contender this season. The story follows a group of revolutionaries that have

By Paul Salfen, November21, 2025 In an era where artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction but part of everyday life, a disturbing new phenomenon is emerging: AI-triggered delusions and psychosis. Award-winning filmmaker Sean King O’Grady (The Mill, Our American Family) dives headfirst into this psychological minefield with his gripping docuseries Suspicious Minds, now streaming

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine November 2025 When Jeremy Xido collapsed onstage in Europe from a massive heart attack while performing his one-man show The Angola Project, the universe sent a message he could no longer ignore: go home. After eleven years touring the world as a dancer, actor, and director, the Detroit-raised artist returned

By Paul Salfen When Hulu announced that Australian actor Jason Clarke would step into the skin of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh for the third season of the anthology series – retitled Murdaugh: Death in the Family – the reaction was immediate: “He’s perfect.” Clarke, the intense, shape-shifting leading man of Zero Dark Thirty,

By Paul Salfen In a refreshing break from the usual awards-season intensity, the new indie comedy Lost and Found in Cleveland is exactly the kind of warm, laugh-out-loud film we need right now. Directed by Marisa and Keith Cooper, this modern riff on The Wizard of Oz follows five strangers whose lives hilariously collide over

November 19, 2025 In a candid conversation with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, Tessa Thompson opens up about starring in and executive producing Hedda, Nia DaCosta’s bold modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler. The film, which has been generating serious awards-season buzz, marks a deeply personal return to Thompson’s theatrical roots while showcasing her