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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Part (but not all) of the reason why top-grossing movies have a longer average run time is that there is a great number of extremely long outliers. The chart below shows the distribution of movies in ...

Last week on Twitter I was asked about the average director's career and how many directors get to make a second film.

Three years ago, I looked at Hollywood's switch from shooting on film to using digital acquisition methods. Since then, I have received a number of questions about the topic. Some are requests to ...