SXSW 2025 kicked off with a surprise appearance from Robert Downey Jr.. The festival celebrates TV, film, music and more!

In a career-spanning chat, the filmmaker — a fixture of New York's hardcore punk scene in the 1980s — discusses his brushes ...

music and more (Think... a mix between Comic Con and the Sundance Film Festival)! And what better way to open the fest than with a super star surprise from Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr.?

But we’d cut together these little short films with Leprechaun footage and recordings of my friend’s prison phone calls and Tom Waits’ music. Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. was also making a ...