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, ...

“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 ...

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

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 ...

'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.

The exterior of CGV San Francisco 14 theater as seen in November 2021. Photo: Jessica Christian/The Chronicle The CGV San Francisco, a 14-screen movie theater on Van Ness Avenue, will become the ...

The dismissal of the orchestra's timpanist in 1974 spotlights lingering issues of race, gender and artistic judgment in today's landscape.

In her sophomore novel, National Book Award finalist Julia Phillips crafts a grim fable about the giant beasts lurking within.

Howard Wales performed at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley on April 13, 2017. Photo: Robison Godlove 2017 The Grateful Dead ballad “Brokedown Palace” begins with the intermingling of a ...

San Francisco's hub for first-run art house movies, which first opened in 1995, will close after this week, sources tell The Chronicle.

His appointment comes at a time when the organization must restore confidence in the continuity of its leadership — the entrance to the director’s office has been a virtual revolving door for the past ...

Set in Maine, Elizabeth Strout’s “Tell Me Everything” is a generous, compassionate novel about the human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are ...