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In 1976, on Jeffrey Foskett’s 20th birthday, he and a fellow Beach Boys fan drove up and down Bellagio Road in Los Angeles looking for Brian Wilson’s home. After about an hour, they found it, decorated with a psychedelic stained-glass window depicting honeybees and flowers (seen on the cover of 1967’s Wild Honey) and guarded by a white picket fence.

“Brian opened the front door and said, ‘Come on in,'” Foskett recalls. “He had no idea who we were and I was in awe. There was a bass guitar laying around,...

At PÖFF | Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, the Israeli dramedy “Golden Voices” bagged the award for the Best Script penned by the film’s director Evgeny Ruman and the cinematographer and first-time writer Ziv Berkovich. The film was also given the Award by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac).

“Golden Voices” is a comedy addressing hardships of immigration, and although it plays quite safe without presenting many surprises, it is a witty and warm story about a Russian-Jewish couple that immigrates to Israel after the fall of the Iron Curtain, in hope of a better life. We meet Vitya (Martin Fridman) and Raya (Maria Belkin) descending the plane, excited and naïve like children, taking the first photo on Israeli soil. While they’re on it, their greeting committee, consisting of one overly enthusiastic lady, is nervously hurrying them up because she has a plane-full of people...

Chicago – “Wild Honey” is a film of transition and redemption, and features a stellar cast anchored by veteran character actress Rusty Schwimmer. The Wilmette Theatre in that Chicagoland suburb is screening the film – partially set locally – on December 12th and 14th, 2018, and Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com will host the Q&A with Schwimmer and writer/director Francis Stokes at the 12/12 presentation. For details and to purchase tickets, click here.

Rusty Schwimmer as Gabby in ‘Wild Honey’

Photo credit: FrancisStokes.com

“Wild Honey” is the story of Gabby (Rusty Schwimmer), a 49 year-old who leaves her dead end relationship with Vince (Todd Stashwick) and moves back in with her mother (Paulette Cary). She also has no job prospects, so reluctantly she makes ends meet as a phone sex operator. This strange profession is interrupted by a caller named Martin (Timothy Omundson), who only wants Gabby’s counsel, and they begin to develop a friendship.