By Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times AUSTIN, Texas — One of the most anticipated events at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival wasn’t a movie at all, but a speaking appearance by director Steven Spielberg...
03.16.2026 Arcamax.com and 9 sites
The prestigious nine-day SXSW Film & TV Festival has started but with a twist. Guessing what? Well, one of the biggest draws at this year's event was not the premiere of a film, but a rare public conv...
03.13.2026 Latimes.com and 4 sites
Timothée Chalamet’s tears haven’t even been dry-cleaned off the red carpet, and I’m already talking about next year’s Oscars. But the truth is mapping the road to the Academy Awards is a 12-month-long...
03.16.2026 Pagesix.com and 1 sites
Some movies tell great stories, and others make you stare at the screen in pure awe. While there are times you'd like to see intimate movies, most of the time you want to get your money's worth by see...
03.14.2026 Collider.com
Historical epics usually get praised for the obvious things first: scale, costumes, production design, battle scenes, prestige. That’s fine, but it also misses the point. The truly great ones are not just big in spectacle. Instead, they make history feel heavy. They make power feel intoxicating, fragile, ridiculous, bloody, seductive, and temporary all at once. They do not simply reconstruct the past. They make you feel trapped inside its systems, its vanity, class, conquest, faith, cruelty, amb...
03.16.2026 Collider.com
Over the course of the Academy Awards' history, one genre has proved to be particularly likely to win Oscars: the biopic. Make any ol' film and there's a decent chance that you'll be walking home empt...
03.12.2026 Collider.com
The ’70s are widely regarded as the cinema’s second gilded age, and with good reason. As the audience shrank to date movie kids, action and genre addicts who thought drive-ins were the best way to wat...
03.16.2026 Rogersmovienation.comBy: ; Thomas West -Yardbarker S E E D E D C O N T E N T 20 classic films that deserve a new theater release Walt Disney Pictures By this point, it's no secret that movie theaters are in a bit of troub...
03.16.2026 Thenewstalkers.com
Long overshadowed by 16mm and 8mm, the curious 9. 5mm format once opened a doorway to cinema for home audiences and young filmmakers alike – and today stands as a vital archive of films that survive n...
03.16.2026 Bfi.org.uk
As one of the most influential directors in Hollywood history, John Ford was as famous for defining the Western genre as he was for his collaborations with screen icon John Wayne. Having started his career in the silent era, Ford honed his craft maki...
03.17.2026 Tvinsider.com