“Dune: Prophecy”: Science fiction. Starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Travis Fimmel. (TV-MA. Six hour-long episodes.) ...

Chu, best known for his 2018 box-office hit and cultural phenomenon “Crazy Rich Asians,” was born in Palo Alto and raised in ...

The East Bay-raised actress also joins Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon in the director’s first post-“Oppenheimer” production.

To get at the throbbing heart of this new book about two of the California literary world’s leading women, we’ll begin with a man’s story. A manly man, the screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Schrader, ...

You often find Richard Price’s novels in the mystery/thriller section of your local bookstore (if you’re lucky enough to still have one), which is fair enough. He writes, more often than not, about ...

Chuck Lacson, left, and Jed Parsario in Word for Word's "The Strange Library." Photo: Robbie Sweeny / Word for Word The boy’s a regular at the library, but he didn’t know it had a basement — much less ...

The opportunity to fully inhabit one’s fear and horror can be a surprising gift in shocking times. German choreographer Marco Goecke’s blood-curdling, scream-punctuated solo “Äffi” hardly makes for ...

Jenny (Lauren Garcia) believes straight men in New York City today are incapable of falling in love. “Bulls—,” David (Soren Santos) replies. “I’ve been in love a hundred times over until my heart ...

John David Washington as Boy Willie in “The Piano Lesson,” based on August Wilson’s 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Photo: David Lee/Netflix By now, John David Washington has established himself as ...

The San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest is scheduled for Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 9-10, at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Versa Style Legacy is among the performance groups on the lineup.

The modern-day samurai in this case is a hitman, who is both a fellow living according to a code and a complete sociopath, incapable of emotion or empathy. The film follows him as he carefully plans ...