Chronicle movie critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also discusses dark cinematography and the proper response when someone tells you about their favorite movies.

Despite the comedic star power of Tina Fey, Will Forte and Steve Carell, the series remake of Alan Alda’s 1981 film on midlife marriage feels old and tired.

Farrah Hamzeh in Crowded Fire Theater’s “The Last of the Love Letters: A Meditation on Loneliness.” Photo: Cheshire Isaacs/Crowded Fire Theater Say you just broke up from a serious relationship.

Harper’s journalist Joe Kloc details his decade-long quest to tell the story of Sausalito’s controversial community of renegade boat dwellers.

East Bay native Sameer Pandya’s latest novel explores masculinity and identity through the lens of a Gandhian legacy, high school football and a life-altering incident among three friends.

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

As Timo is leaving his old friend Mickey to die in an icy crevice on a barren planet, he says, “Nice knowing you, have a nice death” — before adding, “See you tomorrow.” Mickey (Robert Pattinson), you ...

Artistic Director Tamara Rojo’s second repertory season draws heavily upon her experiences at the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet.

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 ...

Welcome to the boomtowns, Southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing 3 million. The cities and their states proved their ...

Review: Paul Schrader reunites with Richard Gere in meditative, inert ‘Oh, Canada’ Forty-five years after “American Gigolo,” the director and star team up on a story of a dying artist and his regrets.

Soon enough we must “shuffle off this mortal coil,” as Shakespeare put it. And if death is inevitable, there are worse ways to go than in a Pedro Almodóvar film, where the end is dressed in pastel ...