Maupin first left San Francisco in June 2012, just a couple years before his last “Tales” book was published, for Santa Fe ...

That’s basically the plot of “The Towering Inferno,” the 1974 movie where Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and a ...

The slow and endless “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is the worst of a sorry franchise. The franchise’s latest wallow in ...

Union City’s Maryam Qudus, better known as singer-songwriter Spacemoth, and her husband, producer and engineer Beau Sorenson ...

Newly restored re-release of long-unseen “Let It Be” documentary. The Michael Lindsay-Hogg film, though concentrating mostly on the music, shows a band about to fracture.

From absorbing dramas to striking documentaries, these are the most intriguing films showing at the 10-day festival.

Straight from the tortured poet’s department, Taylor Swift has brought her new Oakland-produced song “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” to the Eras Tour. The star kicked off the European leg of her ...

On its staticky, color-washed surface, “I Saw the TV Glow” plays like a dark comedy — or a darker, cautionary horror story — about getting too into a cult television series. It’s imaginative media ...

Joanna Arnow, left, and Scott Cohen in a scene from “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.” In writer-director-star Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something ...

Shana Carroll, of the 7 Fingers and “Dear San Francisco” at Club Fugazi, spoke to the Chronicle about her Tony nod for choreographing “Water for Elephants” on Broadway. Choreographers Shana Carroll, ...