“Sirens” seems to want to satirize “ The White Lotus ” and its growing number of copycat shows. That’s not an easy feat, since Mike White already builds a great deal of sophisticated self-mockery and ...

Dear Mick LaSalle: I once met Gene Hackman at a boxing match and spoke with him. Nice man. Did you ever meet him? Robert Freud Bastin, Petaluma Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene ...

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 ...

Daniel Croix, from left, Bill Buell and Laakan McHardy rehearse "The Aves" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Photo: David Boyll At first, the old man (Bill Buell) and the old woman (Mia Katigbak) could ...

AMC Networks is driving toward the end zone with a four-part docuseries about the San Francisco 49ers ’ Super Bowl-winning run in the 1980s and ’90s. And among its producers is a longtime rival, ...

While Sameer Pandya was writing his latest novel “Our Beautiful Boys,” he knew he wanted to somehow work in one of his favorite photos that’s been sitting on his desk for years. It’s a faded snapshot ...

“Drop” is the kind of film that separates the real movie lover from the conditional movie lover. It is manipulative, fundamentally ridiculous, obvious, far-fetched, gut-level in its appeal and ...

“Tenderness” is the word that keeps coming to mind while watching Alex Ketley’s “An Approximation of Resilience.” The dance is unfailingly, unflaggingly, extraordinarily tender. This is surprising, ...

Not Marc and Serge. Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play “Art,” whose Shotgun Players production opened Saturday, March 15, at the Ashby Stage, upends assumptions about worth. If Serge (Benoît Monin) is not just ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This docuseries is not being released on Netflix on Monday, March 10, as originally planned. A new streaming date has not yet been determined, according to a Netflix spokesperson. For ...

“ Batman ” star Robert Pattinson is crediting Zendaya with helping him through a difficult scene that was driving him “crazy for three days.” The two are starring together in the upcoming A24 film ...