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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine After nearly a decade in the making, Pixar veteran Alex Woo’s passion project In Your Dreams finally arrived on Netflix on November 14, 2025 (following a limited theatrical run beginning November 7). The charming animated adventure follows siblings Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and Elliot (Elias Janssen) as they plunge into the

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine In a lively and heartfelt conversation, identical twins Melissa and Michelle Macedo opened up about their bold new psychological body horror film Thinestra — a project where they not only star as lead character Penny and her grotesque doppelgänger but also serve as producers and composers of the haunting score.

World Premiere at AFI FEST 2024 By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine There’s a moment in JUNKIE when Rocky Shay’s Stevie—freshly escaped from yet another rehab, barefoot, broke, and vibrating on meth—looks straight into the camera and grins like the world owes her a good time. It’s chaotic, it’s messy, it’s heartbreaking… and it’s one

By Paul Salfen, exclusive for AMFM Magazine In the cutthroat arena of high finance, where deals are struck in boardrooms and dreams are crushed under spreadsheets, Bull Run emerges as a sharp existential comedy that skewers the absurdity of it all. Directed with a keen eye for the surreal, the film stars Tom Blyth (The

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Exclusive When Kevin McNally raises his hand in a recording booth, it’s not just an actor answering the call—it’s a pirate reporting for duty. The Bristol-born star, best known as Joshamee Gibbs in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, has spent five films swashbuckling alongside Johnny Depp. But these days,

In a bold cinematic gamble that’s already sparking heated debate, first-time scripted feature director Lotfy Nathan brings the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas to the screen with The Carpenter’s Son. Starring Nicolas Cage, FKA Twigs, and Noah Jupe, the film reimagines the “missing years” of Jesus’ childhood—not as serene Nativity scenes, but as a tense,

By Paul Salfen At Fantastic Fest, where horror reigns supreme and audiences crave the next big scare, Bryan Bertino's latest psychological thriller Vicious premiered to screams and squirms. The filmmaker behind The Strangers and The Dark and the Wicked sat down with AMFM Magazine's Paul Salfen to discuss releasing his "baby" into the world, the

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine I sat down with Shuang Hu, the Australian-Asian actress, comedian, and content creator who’s rewriting the rules of entertainment. With 13 million followers across platforms, a resume boasting The Family Law (SBS/Netflix) and Ronny Chieng: International Student (Comedy Central/Netflix), and now the groundbreaking series Baby Shu and Fwends, Shuang isn’t

https://www.amfm-magazine.tv/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarahs-Oil.m4a This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is Sarah's Oil, the incredible true story of an 11 year old African American girl that became a millionaire when her land in Oklahoma on Indian land turns out to be full of oil just  as she believed after being dismissed and

By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine – November 10, 2025 Geeta Gandbhir still remembers the day she chased Spike Lee down a Cambridge sidewalk. Fresh out of Harvard, living in her parents’ basement, and armed with nothing but a backpack and nerve, the 21-year-old turned around, marched back, and "begged him for a job...I had nothing