Mick LaSalle also answers questions about enduringly creepy movies and the theater with the best projection in San Francisco.

The Fair Trade USA founder’s book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices can create global change amid rising tariffs.

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

Editor’s note: This docuseries is not being released on Netflix on Monday, March 10, as originally planned. A new streaming date has not yet been determined, according to a Netflix spokesperson. For ...

The further “Back to the Future: The Musical” gets from the film, the more it succeeds. When Doc explains his time machine to Marty, a line of girls dances in, with little explosion designs on their ...

The year 2024 will not go down in history as a particularly good one for movies. The big films disappointed, and the best films were small in scale and sometimes even small in ambition. There was, ...

Thriller set in the 2040s presents pandemic despair and anarchy. And yet, Buddhist overtones and something like hope in human connections blossom.

The Netflix comedy-mystery starring Ted Danson was partially filmed in San Francisco, where producers worked through filming challenges with city officials. Charles (Ted Danson) and Julie (Lilah ...

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 ...

Muriel Leung, author of the apocalyptic but hopeful novel, “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster.” Photo: Muriel Leung In the early days of the COVID pandemic, author Muriel Leung ...

Mikey Madison emerges as a star in “Anora,” the story of an exotic dancer in New York City. Sean Baker’s film is easily one of the best of 2024.

Halsey is treating San Francisco fans to a one-off intimate concert next month. But there’s a catch. The Grammy-nominated singer is putting on a special show exclusively for Wells Fargo Autograph ...