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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Zendaya gave co-star Robert Pattinson some valuable advice while filming “The Drama.” The two are starring together in the upcoming A24 film “The Drama,” which centers on a couple whose romance takes ...

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 ...