Neil is a lot like most high school kids. He has trouble fitting in, he feels alone, his family doesn’t get him, and he’s questioning his sexual identity. But Neil has found a new outlet to channel his explorations – erotic fan fiction. He has liberated top box office smash Vanguard, a space mercenary, from his everyday adventures and given him a new focus, that of seducing his … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: KILL ME PLEASE, A Life-Affirming Teen Coming Of Age Film About Dead Girls
“You guys wanna go see a dead body?” This classic coming-of-age premise from STAND BY ME gets an update and twist in the new Brazilian film KILL ME PLEASE, which made its US premiere at SXSW. Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira, hailed by Variety at the film’s Venice world premiere as part of the new generation of ‘Latin American Genre Auteurs,’ this delicate drama drips in … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: SILICON COWBOYS celebrates David Compaq’s take down of Goliath IBM
When people think of the PC battles of the eighties, they often, in retrospect, couch them in terms of Apple vs. PC. The reality of it was IBM vs. Clone PC. I have a vivid memory of our first personal computer. It was giant thirty-pound monstrosity with an industrial strength handle that my father lugged on the train up to Ann Arbor from Chicago for his PHD. It was the … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER Finds Empathy In Sociopaths
Writer/Director Billy O’Brien cast Max Records as potential serial killer John Wayne Cleaver six years ago, after “I Am Not A Serial Killer” novelist Dan Wells saw the actor in WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. “I can’t remember if I called Billy or e-mailed him,” says Wells, “I said, ‘Gotta get this kid he’d be so great.’” Producer Nick Ryan had already made a short with Records … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: Ryan Steven Green Puts THE HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Center Court Once Again
The Hollywood Shorties may be the most important basketball team no one has ever heard of until now. Formed by a group of veteran recognizable but typecast film and television actors, The Shorties were the first ever all-dwarf hoops squad. Competing in charity event, at schools, during half time of NBA games, The Hollywood Shorties providing a pint-sized version of the sort of … [Read more...]
HONNE 本音 (True Feelings) SXSW 2016 INTERVIEW
Video and Edit by Christopher James Thompson, AMFM Studios LLC AMFM Magazine caught up with super hot band HONNE after their show at Stubbs on the last day of SXSW 2016. As relative newcomers they manage to regularly sell out venues, with their signature sound dubbed "futuristic soul destined to re-invent babymaking music" by The Telegraph. This British Electronic-Soul duo … [Read more...]
SXSW 2016: DEMOLITION MAN – JAKE GYLLENHALL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Jake tells Paul Salfen about his Austin-centric experience during SXSW 2016 and also how "everything is a little off in this movie" and why . "The love of the strange, that's one of the best things about SXSW," Jake explains. DEMOLITION MAN is in theaters April 1st. Video Edit: Christopher James Thompson, AMFM Studios LLC Paul Salfen is a … [Read more...]
SXSW 2016: PAUL REUBENS TALKS ABOUT ‘PEE WEE’S BIG HOLIDAY’
In this rare interview Paul Salfen talks to actor Paul Reubens, who is usually in Pee Wee Herman character during interviews. Paul then talks to.Director John Lee and actors Alia Shawkat and Stephanie Beatriz about PEE WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY, in which Pee-wee meets a stranger who inspires him to take his first vacation in this story about friendship and fate. It's getting rave … [Read more...]
SXSW 2016 in Fives: Favorites, Frustrations and Fails
It was a pretty solid year for SXSW. I saw 35 films, and I enjoyed and would recommend over half of them. The festival made better use of the convention center this year, with the SXXPRESS Passes on the first floor and the Vimeo theater not feeling quite so cavernous. I still wish it was just a film festival, or at least that it didn’t happen during the music portion, because … [Read more...]
THE TRUST: INTERVIEW WITH FIRST TIME FILMMAKERS, BROTHERS ALEX AND BEN BREWER
INTERVIEW BY: CHRISTINE THOMPSON In one of the more interesting performances from Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood and Jerry Lewis, THE TRUST is a film about a pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble who upon a mysterious bank vault. Pairing an unlikely cop duo of Cage and Wood (with Jerry Lewis giving a cameo as Cage's father), first time filmmakers Alex and Benjamin … [Read more...]
SXSW 2016: FIRST EVER COUNTRY SINGER AT THE FADER FORT, KACEY MUSGRAVES
Last night, The FADER FORT Presented by Converse featured performances from artists including Sunflower Bean, Day Wave, Flatbush Zombies, Dua Lipa, and Neon Indian. Kamaiya brought out Bay Area kindred YG for a duet, and later in the evening, Rae Stremmurd paused during their performance of “Up Like Donald Trump” to endorse Bernie Sanders. Closing the evening, Texas … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: TEENAGE COCKTAIL, Stirring Up Technology And Today’s Youth
At its heart, TEENAGE COCKTAIL is a love story, the story of two teens stuck in a small town who find each other and, for the first time, love. However, their method of escape, raising money through webcam modelling, sends them down a dangerous path and the love story quickly whirlwinds into a thriller. Annie (Nichole Bloom) has just moved to this town and has no friends, … [Read more...]
THANK YOU DEL: THE STORY OF THE DEL CLOSE MARATHON
Carla Taylor Interviews Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, and director Todd Bieber about their documentary Thank You Del: The Story Of The Del Close Marathon Even if you don’t know who Del Close is, he is a very quotable man. In THANK YOU DEL: THE STORY OF THE DEL CLOSE MARATHON, which world premiered this year at SXSW, we get to see Close’s wide-reaching influence in the … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: LEARNING TO SEE And To See Our Parents Fresh
Jake Oelman’s LEARNING TO SEE is not your typical nature doc, nor is it really a documentary about a photographer. It is about both those things but at it’s core its about a son trying to understand his father. Twenty years ago, Robert Oelman gave up his psychology practice to move to Columbia and take pictures of insects. At the time his son Jake was just starting College and … [Read more...]
SXSW Interview: ANOTHER EVIL – Who You Gonna Call? (Not this guy)
Sometimes the cure is worse than the problem. This becomes frighteningly obvious in Carson Mell’s new supernatural thriller/buddy comedy ANOTHER EVIL which made its World Premiere at SXSW. Dan (Steve Zissis) encounters a ghostly presence in his family’s vacation home. Despite his initial terror, Dan has to admit the ghost does not seem to be doing anything particularly harmful, … [Read more...]
