Burt Reynolds still knows how to lay on the charm. At the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre last week for a Q&A after the premiere of his new film “The Last Movie Star,” Reynolds regaled the audience with tales of Hollywood past such as the time he asked his old pal Fred Astaire to dance...

"Ready Player One" is a Trojan horse twice over. While on the surface, this futuristic film is a celebration of gamers, gaming and the pleasures to be found in immersive virtual reality, underlying it all is a heartfelt brief for abandoning all screens and enjoying the satisfactions of the real...

To get to Jim Putnam’s workspace, you have to walk through his Atwater Village home, past his cute but yappy dog and across a rustic backyard to a garage that, over the past few decades, he’s transformed into a labyrinthine studio called Phase 4 Intergalactic Recording Facility. As with many of...

It was a fall evening in 2005 in San Francisco. Michael Tilson Thomas had just begun his second decade as the San Francisco Symphony music director. He was in the midst of recording a cycle of Mahler symphonies, and expectations were high on this occasion for the Fifth, a symphony in which he had...

No one danced on screen with quite the elegance and grace of the legendary Fred Astaire, so it's good news that the Laemmle chain is presenting a classic double-bill of two of his fluid works. The 1953 Vincente Minnelli backstage musical "The Band Wagon" pairs Astaire with Cyd Charisse as two ..

“Pacific Rim Uprising” from Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures earned $65 million in China over the weekend, generating nearly half of the country's total box office receipts last week and dominating other releases. The sci-fi blockbuster's earnings also make it the second-biggest ..

Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" may give a boost to the nascent virtual reality headset industry, but can it conquer the box office?