The post-apocalyptic survival story starring Anthony Mackie goes for the familiar when it should have gone for the jugular.

After some difficulties connecting to Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead. “Sorry about that,” he apologizes. “Tech hell.” Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example ...

Oakland Theater Project’s “Ghost Quartet” is so gossamery, so there-yet-not-there, that you might feel as if you merely got haunted by a narrative’s shadow. Michael Perez in Oakland Theater Project ...

In 2017, the retired art historian Robert W. Cherny found himself unwittingly thrust into the maelstrom of a national controversy. Amid a public battle over whether a series of murals — some of which ...

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never all that ...

Kimberly is dying. Not right this instant, but four times as fast as the rest of us are. She’s just turned 16, but she looks in her 60s, and 16 is the life expectancy for people with her rare ...

Bay Area actors who trod the boards at the Bruns Amphitheater share their memories of the quirky outdoor venue as Cal Shakes’ closure looms. Prospero (Michael Winters, left rear) watches his airy ...

Costumes worn by K-pop idols are displayed in the traveling exhibit “Hallyu! The Korean Wave” at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on Sept. 25. Photo: Juliana Yamada / The Chronicle The Asian Art ...

“Framed,” by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, and “The Sing Sing Files” by Dan Slepian examine in painful detail the failure of our criminal justice system to exonerate the innocent. “Framed: ...

The 5th Annual San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival is back at Cafe du Nord and Swedish American Hall on Nov. 8, 9, 10 featuring Sharon Robinson, Conspiracy of Beards, and S.F. Poet Laureate Genny Lim ...

Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable on the set of ruined post-earthquake San Francisco in the 1936 MGM classic “San Francisco." Though it has been 88 years since this film debuted, it remains infused with ...

Acclaimed director Mary Zimmerman has adapted the classic Mozart opera in a production of captivating charm that feels both familiar and fresh. Billy Rude as Tamino, left, and Marlene Fernandez as ...