The Cinequest Film Festival, now in its 19th year, is in full swing, and last night Loni and I had the pleasure to attend a special screening of Louis Gossett Jr's latest film.

What is it about great European indies that make them so endlessly fascinating and watchable? The Bone Man is another example, and I think it'll be a festival favorite at Cinequest. It's two hours of terrific entertainment. It kept me guessing throughout and I appreciated the exquisite quality of everything...

Constant reminder: Sometimes we're not as clever as we think. In filmmaker Aaron Houston's short Two Theories, One Stone two intellectuals discover just that, over breakfast and from the most unlikely of sources. In some ways it's the perfect homage to Quentin Tarantino. Although you'll have to watch it to see...

“The Harvest,” produced by Eva Longoria, was honored at this week’s ALMA awards as the Most Outstanding Special.

The film follows four talented young sommeliers as they cram for the grueling, notoriously difficult Master Sommelier exam.

No doubt this is a quirky, character-driven study. It's not the destination that matters, as they say, but the journey.

If it bleeds, it leads.

Somewhere in Sonoma, under tall redwoods, I test the Canon C100 Mark II camera. Loni dons the goth. I push record. And here's what happens...

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The Japan Film Festival of San Francisco is the first and only film celebration dedicated to Japanese cinema. In its fifth year, the festival in 2017 will feature a variety of genres, presented in the Japanese language with English subtitles. The film festival runs September 1st through 10th, ending with...