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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an appearance at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, Steven Spielberg revealed his own feelings about intelligent life ...

It’s worth remembering that Steven Spielberg has only actually made three movies about aliens—four, now, as he adds Disclosure Day to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., and War Of The ...

The Oscars took over on Sunday night, celebrating the best of film from 2025. The biggest names in Hollywood took to the red carpet and descended upon the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, ...

As expected, Conan O'Brien showed up slinging one joke after another at the 2026 Oscars. The returning host made quite the entrance. He kicked off the 98th Academy Awards March 15 with a bit in which ...

A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York Times. He has ...

The filmmaker weighed in on aliens and his career during a keynote appearance at South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on Friday: "I never want to quit." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Steven ...