Raka (Peter Macon), left, Noa (Owen Teague) and Mae (Freya Allan) in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” As far as movies go ...

Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae (“ Star Wars: The Acolyte ”) is back as Gi-hun, who has come a long way from the hapless loser who stumbled into the lethal children’s games at the start of Season 1. Rest ...

Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe lift an often agonizing film that is drenched in period atmosphere.

A Complete Unknown” is one of the best films about a singer in years, but here are five others worth watching too.

“Anora,” Sean Baker’s raunchy screwball comedy about a sex worker whose dangerous adventure begins when she elopes with the ...

San Francisco filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman are also honored, as well as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and ...

“Nickel Boys” doesn’t just relate one of the horrifying chapters of the Jim Crow era, it thrusts viewers inside the experience, making it one of 2024’s more remarkable films and a top awards contender ...

British filmmaker Steve McQueen, director of the Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave,” at Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco on Dec. 4. His newest film, “Blitz,” set during World War II London, is streaming on ...

Call it a cinematic stocking stuffer, an early holiday gift for animation lovers, or a less manic family option than that hedgehog across the way at the multiplex. However you put it, Wallace and ...

The year also includes a Ruth Asawa retrospective at SFMOMA, Paul McCartney’s photographs at the de Young and Self-Brainwashing at MSP Foundation. Berthe Morisot, “Woman at Her Toilette,” 1870-1880.

Teenage author Simone O. Elias fell in love with classic Hollywood films during the pandemic and decided to write a book about it. Berkeley teenager Simone O. Elias is the author of “Old Films, Young ...