From breakout moments to standout ideas, here are the five best things our editor saw at SXSW 2026 and why they mattered.

The science fiction genre is home to plenty of movies that are pretty great, yet also pretty forgotten, including Chronopolis ...

"I had to fight bullies as a kid. Now, apparently, even calmly confronting passive-aggressive white Seattle behavior makes people melt into fear." ...

Just two weeks after dominating Netflix, Alan Ritchson's War Machine has been dethroned from its streaming top spot by a ...

There’s a place in Michigan where locomotives breathe fire and steam like friendly dragons. The Steam Railroading Institute ...

Alan Ritchson's War Machine delivers a great military sci-fi movie and opens the door to many other similar movies.

While Nikola Jokic continues his triple-double mastery with the Nuggets, the league is shifting and adapting to it. Victor Wembanyama has officially made the leap from prospect to problem, and the ...

This movie had me yelling "SNAAAAAAAKE!" ...

Netflix's War Machine is proving to be a solid hit for the streamer, but fans will definitely want to check out another sci-fi war movie now on Tubi.

Action movies love to promise practical stunts, but War Machine actually delivered on that promise in a big way. According to ...

Director Patrick Hughes wanted energy from War Machine’s action. He got plenty of it from composer Dmitri Golovko. While rangers – led by 81 (Alan Ritchson) – are on the run from alien weaponry, ...

In the latter, though, I never got to be surprised by the presence of the alien, and not just because the film opens with a ...