Robert Pattinson credits the Oakland native with helping him through a scene that drove him “crazy for three days.” ...

Mickey agrees to be an Expendable, meaning he’s the guinea pig in testing out potentially fatal viruses and other dangerous ...

Around the one-hour mark on Tuesday, March 4, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter strummed the opening chords of “Change (In ...

The Berkeley City Club is always an up-close-and-personal venue, but it’s a special thrill when actors’ necks are bulging and steaming to lift giant weights. Clark (Andre Amarotico, left) and Nolan ...

About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...

Cate Blanchett, left, and Michael Fassbender play married espionage agents in Steven Soderberg’s “Black Bag,” which opens in theaters on Friday, March 14. Photo: Claudette Barius/Associated Press ...

This movie, which stars Jack Quaid, is about a man who doesn’t feel pain, but its makers sure want you to feel it. Nathan (Jack Quaid) is on the run in “Novocaine,” an action comedy directed by Dan ...

Baritone Craig Irvin, left, as Thalasso, soprano Shayla Sauvie as Kosmo, soprano Angela Yam as Orsia and members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus in Opera Parallèle’s world-premiere production of ...

German actor Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, an unofficial Dracula copy, in F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic, "Nosferatu." Photo: Cinequest Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” is an atmospheric ...

The San Francisco-shot “Dirty Harry” (1971), starring Clint Eastwood, has been restored in 4K and will be released to home video on April 29. Photo: Warner Bros. To quote San Francisco Police ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests onboard, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...