The evils of late-stage capitalism have been addressed at every film festival ever in recent years, but hardly ever in the midnight strand. This ingenious horror-comedy anthology achieves the almost ...

Children are natural small-c conservatives, so it is no wonder that the culture created for them is often derivative and formulaic. But ‘Hoppers’, a new cartoon from Pixar, is not quite the Manichean, ...

The 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off March 7, in Austin and features 49 world premieres among debuts. It’s the first ...

An exploration of a future scenario where automation and artificial intelligence reduce the need for human labor and how that could reshape economies, jobs, and society.

It also left the Democrats confronting a potentially era-defining defeat. But here we are in 2026: President Trump is deeply unpopular and Democrats are leading in the midterm polls. Still, I want to ...

Cybrlich and the Death Cult of Labor's hand-drawn art is a stylish vehicle for a weighty FPS ...

Chances are this adult animated sci-fi comedy series on HBO Max will never get a second season, but it's still absolutely worth streaming.

In the Brazilian-made Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, set in that country’s authoritarian 1970s, a pungent sequence features an animated amputated leg, acting as a surreal “stand-in” for police ...

One day last spring, I came back to my office from a lunch meeting and found a high-school student camping outside. He was a prospective University of Chicago undergrad, and he said he was passionate ...

Oscars Best Animated Short Film Commentary (Updated March 9, 2026): It’s a tale as old as time: Oscar pools are won or lost in the shorts categories. And this year’s animated short race may be the ...

Esoteric Ebb is a lot like the mimic in this scene. It looks and sounds like things it takes the shape of--some more obvious ...

South by Southwest has always been a place where something unexpected cracks open the conversation. This year, running March 12–18 in Austin, Texas, the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival ...