I crunched the data on over a million shots of faces across 3,655 movies to see whether modern lighting is getting flatter.

I analysed fifteen years of Oscar nominees to see whether the most-mentioned contenders in the trades tend to go on to win.

I crunched the numbers on 8,190 movies to discover which types stay profitable even when the critics are unkind.

In previous years, I have run a deep data dive into whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and also tried to predict which will be the next controversial Christmas movie. This year, I wanted to take a ...

Films evolve in many small ways that are easy to miss if you are not looking for them. One area I had not studied before is shot composition. It is such a basic building block of visual storytelling ...

Last week, I got pulled into a conversation with some friends about Donnie Darko. The debate quickly turned to whether the film’s hard-to-follow narrative held it back or whether that was part of its ...

Last month, I looked at how many film festivals still insist on premiere status, and found that most don’t. Only a small fraction of events require your film to be the first screening anywhere, while ...