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INHERIT THE VIPER casts a lens on the opioid crisis through the eyes of a European, Swiss Director Anthony Jerjen.  The film delivers a dark drama set in small-town Ohio (actually filmed in Alabama) which is made all the more poignant by the fact that situations depicted in the film are all-too pervasive in certain

Described as equal parts comedy and drama, VHYES hit theaters nationwide January 17th. Listen as Paul Salfen talks to Producer Tim Robbins, Director Jack Henry Robbins, And Actress Kerry Kenney just after the screening of VHYES at Fantastic Fest 2019. A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler

Interview by Paul Salfen No Safe Spaces reveals how identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America. Film Synopsis: No Safe Spaces, starring Adam No Carolla and Dennis Prager, is a film with a mission: to expose the growing threat to free speech

For many horror fans, The Beyond is one of the most memorable films in their discovery of the genre. It’s the second film in Lucio Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy, falling between City of the Living Dead in 1980 and The House by the Cemetery, also in 1981. Often called “an Italian Southern Gothic supernatural

Interview by Paul Salfen WAVES is being heralded by critics as joy and pain, a film with anguish yet a call to forgiveness for family. We talk to  Texas Director/Writer Trey Edward Shults, who hails from Texas but now lives in Florida. From writer/director Trey Edward Shults and starring Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor

The Controversy Over What Really Happened At Long Tan Tackled In This Gripping Film DANGER CLOSE is the retelling of some four to five hours in August 1966 in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, where young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought for their lives when they were isolated against 2500

Interview By Christine Thompson

Interview by Christine Thompson We interview  filmmakers Zach Lamplugh (Adult Swim) and Brian Emond about their hilarious feature THE VICE GUIDE TO FINDING BIGFOOT which premiered at The Austin Film Festival. The mockumentary stars Edmond as the disenchanted millennial working for VICE on terrible assignments, and Lamplugh as his always exasperated producer/cameraman.  Yearning to sink

Interview by Paul Salfen Thomasin McKenzie  (Elsa) talks about the strangeness of seeing the beauty in a land where so much atrocity was committed during WWII while on the set of JOJO RABBIT.  Directed by Taika Waititi (THOR RAGNAROK), the film portrays JoJo as a lonely German boy who discovers that his sing mother is

Interview by Paul Salfen FIRST LOVE Director Takashi Miike First Love is the extremely prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme