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

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has just been released, and, at the time of writing, it appears that two things are true: The critics hate it. Currently, only 12% of the 81 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...