epics

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The network had long built its identity on adult prestige — crime sagas, antiheroes and sprawling family epics — not stories centered on high schoolers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The play will be "a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen", and will reach the stage in early 2027, the announcement said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

It has become routine among rebooters of historical epics, never mind how fanciful the source, to get all serious about how they portray our past as developers of western civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Asra knew the Orgota staples, the Short-Tales of Meshe, the tale of Parsid, parts of the great epics and the novel-like Sea-Traders saga.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin