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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star in an intermittently exciting, often boring reboot of a 1996 blockbuster.
Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...
About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...
“Skin of Glass” on PBS delves into the history and current state of Roger Zmekhol’s famed São Paulo tower, revealing personal and architectural stories.
Luis Cortes Romero made history when he became the first undocumented person to present a case at the nation’s highest court.
The Chronicle movie critic also answers questions about favorite election films and whether Walter Matthau would have made it in 2024.
Domenique Lozano’s adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” reveals Shakespeare not as some holy writ etched in stone but a bubbling lab ripe for experimentation.
The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's An original Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967 sold for $17,640 through Sotheby’s on Friday, Oct.
Dede Wilsey poses for a portrait with her dog Dazzle at her home in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2015 After 21 years as president of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San ...
The marketing of “Wicked” has been so obnoxious for so long — since stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were everywhere at the Summer Olympics — that you wondered if the movie could possibly live up ...
Mal Sharpe in his barber chair at home with his collection of jazz records. Photo: Tim Maloney / The Chronicle Mal Sharpe, an inventive radio comic, pitchman and jazz man best known for his genius and ...
'The Golden Girls' didn't just talk us through social issues, it reminded us that we don't have to lose ourselves as we age.