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"How much a person likes 'Disclosure Day,' the newest film from director Steven Spielberg, depends a lot on what their favorite film of his is. I’ve spent my entire life chasing the feeling I got from watching 'Jurassic Park' for the first time at 13 years old. So to say that I looked forward to 'Disclosure Day" is a massive understatement," says film critic Jared Rasic.

Last week we visited screenwriter Michael Tolkin at his Healdsburg home and, joined by his daughter and caregiver Emma, sat down with a cup of tea and talked movies with him for almost an hour. Soon we were talking about what may be his most successful movie, The Player, in which Tim Robbins is stalked by a failed screenwriter. (Spoiler alert: Robbins ...

The courtyard outside True West on Friday eveniong was a “scene” in more ways than one: Many were there to see and meet Cameron Crowe and Ben Fong-Torres—legendary names in the rock movie canon—as they enjoyed that famous Healdsburg hospitality, mixed and mingled, and enjoyed the movie 'Almost Famous' for the umpteenth time.

The first schedule for True West Film center will include Academy Award-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s "A House of Dynamite," Luca Guadagnino’s "After the Hunt" with Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, "Eleanor the Great." The earliest screening time is 11am, and the latest is 8pm...

So many movies, so little time The fifth iteration of the unpronounceable HISFF, or Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, returns to Healdsburg the weekend of Sept. 25-27. As before, the centerpiece of the festival is the films themselves, 57 short films from 17 different countries...

While the film makes a few minor rookie mistakes with its script—making too many things literal that could have been understood on a purely instinctual level—'Backrooms' is an astonishingly assured and tonally immaculate first feature by such a young filmmaker.

"Two weeks ago, I would have said Timothee Chalamet had this one won, but he’s been a desperate weirdo in his press tour, so now I think Michael B. Jordan might take the the Best Actor statuette home..."

A howlingly angry attack on the politicians who spitefully whistle their way past the graveyard as they find new ways to destroy the climate, individual freedoms and humanity as a whole...

While some 17 films and three “surprise screenings” are spread out over the four-day festival, that obscure majority is outweighed in impact by four classic love stories, including 'Roman Holiday,' 'The Birdcage,' 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' and none other than Nick Cage and Cher in 'Moonstruck.'

What Christiopher Nolan delivers with 'The Odyssey' is classic, old-fashioned filmmaking on a scale rarely seen since Hollywood succumbed to its over-reliance on CGI.