The connection between a wedding in Helsinki in the 2000s and a traumatic event 10 years earlier is revealed with gut-wrenching assuredness. Claire de Sévigné as the mother-in-law (Patricia), second ...

“The King of Kings” gives the Jesus story an animated treatment with some whimsical Dickensian touches. It’s nothing to write scripture about, but it should provide amusing and possibly enlightening ...

Mark Cousins’ documentary on Hitchcock’s craft lays out what makes the “master of suspense” one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Alfred Hitchcock during his younger years in a still used in the ...

Nicki Minaj already kicked off her “Pink Friday 2” world tour in Oakland, but the rapper isn’t done with the Bay Area just yet. The “Starships” singer plans to take over San Francisco’s Chase Center ...

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 ...

In 1978, a crude bomb built by an unknown assailant the FBI nicknamed the Unabomber exploded at Northwestern University in Chicago, injuring a security guard. Over the next 17 years, the person ...

The publication of a little-known manuscript by chief Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter this fall is a find like no other to date, according to the Bay Area band’s official historian. “The Silver ...

Director Greg Jardin’s impressive visual dexterity cannot overcome this Netflix film’s confusing, and eventually boring, body-swap storylines. Reina Hardesty as Brooke, left, Brittany O’Grady as ...

Alison Bechdel’s latest book is “Spent,” a comic novel examining money, privilege and late-stage capitalism. Photo: Courtesy of Alison Bechdel In one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic ...

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 ...

Jason Reitman’s tale of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 is chaos, but wins you over. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left), Jacqueline Carlin (Kaia Gerber) and her future husband ...

Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical is relevant whenever nationalism, groupthink and racial othering are on the rise, which seems to be always. Hedonistic nightlife thrives at the Kit ...