I analysed 70 years of Sight & Sound poll data to see which once-celebrated classics are now slipping down the canon of ...

I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and ...

Very few movies don’t contain some kind of moral message designed to show us a better path, a better way of living, or to teach us how to be better people.

“Genre' movies” were the most likely to get the billing correct (70% of horror movies, and 69% of sci-fi), whereas musicals were the worst offenders (only 36% were correct).

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

For the third part in my series on the financial side of the film industry, I am turning to profitability and asking "Do Hollywood movies make a profit?" Hollywood has a negative reputation when it ...

There are other elements and formatting rules but I'm focusing on the ones which affect our investigation of the one-minute-per-page rule. There are plenty of guides online on how to format a ...

Romance is playing an ever-smaller role in storytelling in movies, raising the question of whether audiences are losing interest or simply finding love elsewhere.

John from Israel emailed me to ask what format most Hollywood films are shot on - film or digital. The question is rather topical as recently we've seen a number of high profile films choose to shoot ...

Can cinemas survive the next 20 years? Exhibition execs on the post-COVID recovery and beyond Cinema operators and industry insiders reflect on the state of theatrical recovery, revealing cost-cutting ...