Local filmmaker C.M. Conway and star Cassie returned to The Drive to tell us about the reception her film received at the recent Summerfield Cinemas public premiere and about its upcoming screening at the Occidental Center for the Arts. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
An interview with filmmaker C.M. Conway about her film “How to Successfully Fail in Hollywood” which will have its premiere screening in Santa Rosa on Saturday, July 16 at the Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: Click the graphic below from more info:
My guest on a Thursday, September 23 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was actor/former North Bay resident Kurtis Bedford, who began his Hollywood acting career as the second-to-the-last listed cast member of Wes Craven’s seminal horror film Scream. Click below to listen: ***********
My guest on the Wednesday, September 22 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ky Boyd, proprietor of the Rialto Cinemas to discuss their COVID vaccination policy and the current state of film exhibition. Click below to listen: ***********
Sonoma County-based documentarian Ron Rogers made two recent appeararances on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon to discuss his film 3 Seconds in October: The Shooting of Andy Lopez. He appeared on the July 13, 2021 show before the film’s broadcast on two Bay Area Public Television stations and then on the July 19, 2021…
Military-themed movies don’t come more retro than Greyhound. The film stars Tom Hanks as the captain of a U.S. naval destroyer escorting a convoy of supply ships to WWII-torn England that comes under attack by a wolf-pack of Nazi submarines. Originally scheduled for a March 2019 theatrical release, Apple acquired the film from Sony Pictures…
Soul is a beautiful film of incredible depth, more depth than we’ve become used to from animated films – even Pixar’s. Gorgeously animated, wonderfully voiced (with contributions from some recognizable Bay Area theatre talent), and vibrantly scored, I think it would have been the least financially successful Pixar film to date had it been released…
I spent the weekend catching up on two high-profile, gay-themed streaming productions – Netflix’s The Boys in the Band and The Prom. The former is a star-studded remount of Mart Crowley’s ground-breaking 1968 Off-Broadway production (and William Friedkin’s 1970 film adaptation) directed by Joe Mantello with the latter being a star-studded remounting of the 2018…
If you come to David Fincher’s Mank seeking a definitive answer to the question of who really wrote Citizen Kane you are likely to find yourself disappointed. The question, first raised by film critic Pauline Kael in a 1971 essay, has hung out there in the cinema atmosphere for decades. Kael’s conclusion that it was…
You’ve got to be of a certain age or a cinephile to understand the term “B” movie. Originally used to identify the second feature on a double-bill (the first being the “A” movie), some studios maintained “A” and “B” production units, while other studios – like Monogram and Republic – produced nothing but low-budget features…
North Bay Stage and Screen 