JENNIFER LAWRENCE INTERVIEW: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is the highly-anticipated third installment of the blockbuster phenomenon that blazed across movie screens around the globe. The story now accelerates to new, exhilarating levels as the futuristic chronicle of Katniss Everdeen enters into a new realm. The Games may have been obliterated for … [Read more...]
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER LAWRENCE, NATALIE DORMER AND MAHERSHALA ALI
Jennifer Lawrence tells Paul Salfen of Sports Plus how she stays grounded, Natalie Dormer talks about how cool it is to be part of two hugely popular franchises; Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, and Mahershala Ali tells Paul about a "Hail Mary" moment in his acting career. MAHERSHALA ALI INTERVIEW: President Coin’s right-hand man, Boggs, has lived all his life in … [Read more...]
THE OSCARS: PICKS & PREDICTIONS 2014
Special to AMFM Magazine by Jimmy Willden The Academy Awards are now three days away, so, for me that means stocking up on chips, salsas and queso, beer and champagne, and printing out my list to compare (and possibly yell at the screen over). Last year, I succeeded in predicting 12 out of the 14 (86%) categories I covered correctly; this year, I’m covering 20 categories – … [Read more...]
THE OSCARS: NOMINEES AND SNUBS!
You can't win them, all but last year we got pretty close with 12 out of 14. Here we go again. By JIMMY WILLDEN Awards-season fervor is at its peak since the 2014 Academy Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. For the most part, the nominees were direct shoe-ins; movies that have been highly publicized as critical and awards-season darlings since their … [Read more...]
SILVER LININGS: PLAYBOOK ‘INTERVIEW’
WITH AUTHOR MATTHEW QUICK For three years, Matthew Quick lived off his nest egg, pounding away at a typewriter in his in-laws basement like a man possessed. Everyone thought he was nuts, until the Weinstein Company bought the movie rights. Now When Matthew Quick was thinking of quitting his job as a high-school English teacher to write his first novel, almost everyone he … [Read more...]
AMFM’s OSCAR PICKS and PREDICTIONS
Special to AMFM Magazine by Jimmy Willden 2012 was a big year for movies. A lot of blockbusters, including the culmination of Marvel's Phase One with The Avengers, a lot of critically acclaimed smaller films, and a lot of the in-between. Last month the Academy released its Oscar nominations, and baffled many with several highly notable snubs (Tom Hooper, Ben Affleck, … [Read more...]