Mick LaSalle also answers questions about enduringly creepy movies and the theater with the best projection in San Francisco.

“The Four Seasons” was a 1981 film about growing old together, not only with one’s spouse but also alongside one’s dearest friends. Yet, while the new Netflix adaptation brings together a new cast of ...

AMC Networks is driving toward the end zone with a four-part docuseries about the San Francisco 49ers ’ Super Bowl-winning run in the 1980s and ’90s. And among its producers is a longtime rival, ...

The Fair Trade USA founder’s book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices can create global change amid rising tariffs.

“An Approximation of Resilience” by Alex Ketley uses dance to explore a real-life murder case and California’s justice system.

Review: Almodóvar at top of his game in ‘The Room Next Door,’ his first English-language feature Julianne Moore cares for terminally ill Tilda Swinton in the Spanish auteur’s gentle drama of ...

“These are the selfies of an SS officer,” Gronich told the Chronicle. “What does it mean to suddenly be looking at this collection? How does it change the way we tell the story?” And what will our own ...

The year 2024 will not go down in history as a particularly good one for movies. The big films disappointed, and the best films were small in scale and sometimes even small in ambition. There was, ...

Thriller set in the 2040s presents pandemic despair and anarchy. And yet, Buddhist overtones and something like hope in human connections blossom.

The marketing of “Wicked” has been so obnoxious for so long — since stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were everywhere at the Summer Olympics — that you wondered if the movie could possibly live up ...

School Library Journal Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones came under fierce personal attack in 2022 when she spoke out against book bans.

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...