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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine November 10, 2025 In the week since its Netflix debut, The Perfect Neighbor has held the top spot on the streaming giant's charts, a testament to its raw power and unflinching gaze into the heart of American suburbia. Directed by Geeta Gandbhir, the documentary dissects a seemingly innocuous neighborhood dispute

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine In a cinematic landscape often dominated by blockbusters and reboots, Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague stands out as a playful, poignant love letter to cinema. This film reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking Breathless, capturing the exuberant exploration of youthful rebellion and creative chaos that defined the French New Wave.

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine | November 5, 2025 In the dimly lit glow of Austin's historic theaters—those same spaces plastered with faded posters of Truffaut and Godard—Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague bursts onto the screen like a stolen kiss from cinema's rebellious past. A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, this film reimagines the making

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine It's not every day you get to chat with two powerhouses like Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård about a project as intimate and introspective as Sentimental Value. Directed by the visionary Joachim Trier, this drama unravels the tangled threads of family legacy. At its heart is Gustav, an estranged director

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. What begins as a family reckoning—two estranged sisters, Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve and Elle Fanning), forced back into orbit around their charismatic, unreliable filmmaker father, Gustav (stellan skarsgård), after their mother’s death—quietly becomes something larger:

Tosin Morohunfola didn’t expect Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy to feel so personal. “When I read the script,” he says, “I thought it was a holiday romance. But Tyler doesn’t do surface. This is about someone who’s been overlooked—in her career, in love—and has to face herself before she can find anything real.” In the film,

By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Exclusive The snow was falling in fat, lazy flakes outside the ski lodge when Shannon Thornton stepped onto her balcony for the first time. She had a room with a balcony. In Colorado. At a resort that looked like someone had shaken a snow globe and forgotten to stop. Below

In a candid conversation with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, veteran producer John Shepherd—whose 30-plus-year career spans independent filmmaking, studio executive roles, and award-winning features—unpacks the heart behind Sarah’s Oil, the new biographical drama hitting theaters November 7. Shepherd, an NAACP Image Award winner and former Senior VP of Original Content at DreamWorks/Imagine’s POP.com, has produced

Interview by Paul Salfen In the bustling heart of Dallas, where high school dreams collide with adult realities, Adam Saunders is living a full-circle moment. The Richardson High School alum, class president turned actor-writer-director, has returned to his hometown to promote Re-Election, his 2025 comedy that blends nostalgia, laughs, and a timely plea for kindness.

Interview by Paul Salfen In the blistering expanse of 1849 Arizona Territory, where dust devils dance like omens and every horizon promises peril, Killing Faith unfolds a tale as raw as the land itself. Guy Pearce, no stranger to morally tangled characters, steps into the boots of a doctor escorting a former slave (Dewanda Wise)