The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for May 19, 2026.

Alex "Buddy" Cooper, a 79-year-old Rankin County school bus driver and beloved community Santa Claus died as a result of a ...

Simi Valley, the Channel Islands and areas east of Bakersfield are on fire. What’s the risk for Northern California?

Turning Point chapters continue to grow on California campuses months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Campuses are seeing ...

The melodrama, which premiered in competition at the French festival, marks the 76-year-old director’s return to his native ...

Bitter Christmas' is mid-tier Pedro Almodóvar: immaculately art-directed and color-blocked, as per, and plenty enjoyable.

Part of a string of late-career Pedro Almodóvar films that aren't as dazzling as his early work but feel deep and profound, "Bitter Christmas" is a Russian nesting doll of a movie. It's a layered ...

A tortured filmmaker writes — and re-writes — a screenplay about a tortured filmmaker in this satisfying late-career gem from ...

Pedro Almodóvar is known for mining his personal experience, but his new film Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) explores this ...

A review of Bitter Christmas, which finds Pedro Almodóvar digs into his own profession again in a movie that explores ...

The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties tending to ...