After a well-received first run in 2024, the Fraenkel Gallery’s Fraenkel Film Festival will return to the Roxie Theater this summer. The news of the festival’s second year comes as the nonprofit seeks ...

“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 ...

San Francisco author Jon Hickey’s debut novel centers on Mitch Caddo, a mixed-race tribal operations director navigating political and personal turmoil on a fictional Anishinaabe reservation.

Bay Area journalist Alexis Madrigal’s book “The Pacific Circuit” is “a love letter to Oakland” rooted in environmental and political justice.

Two recent studies reveal women now star in as many top films as men, marking a significant shift in Hollywood.

For most people, revisiting every handwritten note you ever received in high school might amount to a form of cruel and unusual punishment. But Oakland author and artist Briana Loewinsohn knew that ...

Editor’s note: This docuseries is not being released on Netflix on Monday, March 10, as originally planned. A new streaming date has not yet been determined, according to a Netflix spokesperson. For ...

For kids today, sex positivity is all the rage. Until it’s their grandparents who are having sex. OK, maybe June isn’t just any sexual being. And as the title of “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex ...

Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson star in “Mickey 17,” directed by Bong Joon Ho. Photo: Associated Press ...

“Eh, I don’t think so,” he said. “I’ve been watching ball games out of Candlestick Park for years, and the people there are wearing overcoats — in July!” I’d expected San Francisco to be my East Coast ...

Where does the line fall between the living and the dead? How do you know when you’re awake or dreaming? Whose presence is real, and whose is merely a figment of the imagination? These are the ...

“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 ...