Dear Teresa Concepcion: Well, in one sense of the word “best,” I’d say the Roxie Theater, the Stanford Theatre, the Rafael Film Center and the theater inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

Cringe comedy is apparently here to stay, and the latest example is “Friendship.” The film highlights the talents of sketch comic Tim Robinson, a Second City and “Saturday Night Live” alum. If you’re ...

Ambrose Akinmusire and Alonzo King partner for “The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits,” which captures the struggle for connection in a fractured world. Theo Duff-Grant performs in “The Beauty of ...

Jia Zhang-ke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course with history the way it does in the ...

The first feature film from director James Madigan is an action drama about havoc on a Bangkok to SFO jetliner. Unfortunately, it falls flat. Josh Hartnett stars as a man on a mission who is on a ...

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who he thinks really got snubbed at the Oscars, “The Letter” and the late Heuwell Tircuit. “My Old Ass” is one of the films ...

Bestselling author Isabel Allende has been beloved for decades by millions of passionately loyal readers for her strong female protagonists and epic story lines stretching across the Americas. In ...

“Clown in a Cornfield” will never be ranked among the classics of our time, but there are aspects of it that are worthy of admiration. Based on Adam Cesare’s 2020 novel of the same name, it’s not only ...

It’s possible rapper Tupac Shakur first formulated his distaste for police brutality while still inside the womb. That’s because his mother, Black Panther member Afeni Shakur, was heavily pregnant ...

Aimee Phan is the author of “The Lost Queen.” Photo: Portrait by Nicholas Lea Bruno Aimee Phan grew up hearing about the Trung sisters, the two military leaders who founded the country of Vietnam in ...

The new Vince Vaughn movie “Nonnas" aspires to be a bit of cinematic comfort food. It’s based on a heartwarming true story, features a lot of shots of simmering Sunday sauces and touts a lovable cast ...

Eric Esquivel-Gutierrez as Adamu in Awesome Theatre's "The Future That Liberals Want, or; Resume-Building Post-Apocalypse." Just a second ago, Adamu was masquerading as a tech billionaire, hoping to ...