The problem is that a guy who has no concerns and never worries about everything is, by definition, a limp character, incapable of driving a story with any urgency. Even Roger Moore’s James Bond ...

Particularly grating is when the two — beautiful — middle-aged actors, Fey and Kerri Kenney (“Reno 911!”) crack fatphobic jokes, especially at their own expense. It’s not funny, and it’s not ...

As Timo is leaving his old friend Mickey to die in an icy crevice on a barren planet, he says, “Nice knowing you, have a nice death” — before adding, “See you tomorrow.” Mickey (Robert Pattinson), you ...

Five films with local ties are set to screen at the 27th San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and they could not be more different from one another. San Jose filmmaker Anthony Hand’s feature debut ...

Francis-Sharma deftly captures the subtleties of racism at the business dinner with Matshediso, as well as the microaggressions Black people face. She also neatly observes Global North and South ...

It’s been nine years since Mel Gibson last directed a feature film. While it wouldn’t be fair to say that he’s gotten rusty, the new effort “Flight Risk” lacks the brutal cinematic energy that made “ ...

The San Francisco Symphony courts talent from far and wide — and occasionally from home. From 2006 to 2009, a young James Gaffigan spent three seasons as the orchestra’s associate conductor. Now 45, ...

Paul Schrader is clearly going through some things. The director is nobly caring for his wife, actress Mary Beth Hurt, during her long journey through Alzheimer’s; dealing with health issues of his ...

Soon enough we must “shuffle off this mortal coil,” as Shakespeare put it. And if death is inevitable, there are worse ways to go than in a Pedro Almodóvar film, where the end is dressed in pastel ...

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, ...

Disaster, in forms both natural and manmade, haunts the fiction of Anita Felicelli. Wildfire smoke chokes out moonlight. A tsunami threatens the drought-scorched West Coast. Nuclear fallout degrades ...

It is a trick of fate that “A Man on the Inside” is set in the city. Most unusual for a TV comedy, it was a documentary that inspired it, “The Mole Agent.” The 2020 Academy Award-nominated film ...