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How top films rate The Chronicle, in collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, presents how the top movies from last weekend were rated by critics and audiences. (The movies are in order of...
Want to get out and make a night of it? Here are a few tips from The Chronicle's Datebook staff on where to go and what to do around the Bay Area. Take your pick: Check out our mini-review of a recommended restaurant to...
"Yeah, 'John Carter' hurt him. But it wasn't like he was inconsolable, walking around with a rope looking for a branch." "Battleship" director Peter Berg about Taylor Kitsch, who is the lead in "Battleship" and starred...
Staying in? Here are some suggestions to help you make the most of your evening at home. Our staff has come up with all sorts of options, including the best of what's on television, a DVD to watch, a book you might want...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Hatfields & McCoys: Three-part miniseries. 9 p.m. Mon.-Wed. on the History Channel. The bloody six-year feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families at the end of the 19th century has become so...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Hemingway & Gellhorn : A film by Philip Kaufman. 9 p.m. Mon. on HBO. Philip Kaufman's film about Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn is as gloriously messy as the couple's...
MIB3 RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Science fiction-action. Starring Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. (PG-13. 106 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "MIB3" is not quite as fresh as 1997'...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Xanadu: Musical. Book by Douglas Carter Beane. Songs by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Directed by Jeff Collister. Through June 23. Center Rep, Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut...
When Paul Mowry, new pastor of the Sausalito Presbyterian Church, decided at 44 to become a minister, he knew the church didn't ordain people like him. But he also believed that his God shunned no one, and that one day,...
One swallow may not make a summer, as the saying goes, but maybe two successive sightings of Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony portend a shift in the fortunes of this wonderful and undervalued piece? Hey, a guy can dream. A...
In February the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was trailed by Iranian planes and patrol boats as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The next threat: vampires. With publicists. As early as this week 20th Century...
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Director Dori Berinstein captures the essence of this Broadway star of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Hello Dolly" in this enchanting documentary about the life...
Perfect Bay Area days just now - sunny and mild with a light breeze, maybe 70. Makes me remember why I kept coming back here after various jobs in various cities. Almost like heaven, it is, if you squint. Certainly the...
While walking through the Panhandle a few Saturdays ago, we came upon a picnic 300 folks strong, with a lot of happy people greeting each other, chowing down and taking snapshots. They were almost all African American,...
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Not all that long ago E L James was Snowqueens Icedragon, cranking out her sexed-up "Twilight" fan fiction online. Well, faster than you can shriek your safe word, her kinky "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy has fan...
Alex Zecca has long worked with such methodical consistency that I go to each new exhibition of his expecting to see more of the same. But he has not yet failed to surprise. Zecca's show at Gallery 16 plays fresh...
Polisse RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Drama. Starring Karin Viard and Marina Fois. Directed by Maiwenn. In French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 127 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) A huge hit in France, "Polisse" marks...
Whores' Glory RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Documentary about prostitution. Directed by Michael Glawogger. (Not rated. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger's documentary about prostitutes...
The San Francisco Symphony is joining forces with the New World Symphony and the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in a venture to offer both commissions and professional guidance to emerging composers. Under the project,...
Hysteria RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Drama. Starring Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce and Felicity Jones. Directed by Tanya Wexler. (R. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Such an atmosphere of good cheer and...
Keyhole RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Drama. Directed by Guy Maddin. With Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Louis Negin, Udo Kier. (Rated R. 94 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Keyhole" is a dreamy, enigmatic melodrama, told...
Bernie See this movie before reading about it, because every review except this one will give away half the story: Directed by Richard Linklater, this real-life character portrait of a Texas funeral director is a great...
Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen. Everyone from Marlon Brando to Jean-Luc Godard to Brad Pitt has circled the classic 1957 novel over the last six...
Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer. The country music superstar is giving away 25 mortgage-free houses - one for each stop on his upcoming Brothers of the Sun tour with Kenny...
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Will Smith's best-reviewed films. His latest film, "Men in Black 3" in 3-D, is at Bay Area...
ARIES (March 20-April 18): Conventional wisdom says stay put, but then convention doesn't always work well with unexpected developments. Be more spontaneous. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You're taken aback when a colleague...
