Today we’re going sonic. Not, not that one - we’re moving on to the audio of movies. I built a system to identify every sound event from almost 2,000 action movies made over the past 75 years. We’re ...

I spent a week walking the 2026 Marché du Film, talking to buyers, sellers, financiers and programmers. The headline numbers ...

To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer Todd Garner, I was asked to crunch the numbers on longer movies. It’s a question I’ve looked at before on this site, ...

I ran the numbers on over 72,000 films to find the most reused lines in cinema, revealing how movie clichés are born, spread, ...

Today is the first day of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. 22 films are competing to win the coveted top prize in cinema - the Palme d’Or. Winning a Palme will certainly give you a moment of fame, the ...

Some see the Oscars as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a night of cinematic excellence that honours the best of the best. Others view it a TV reality show in which over-paid and over-dressed ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

Cannes 2025 was not a washout. The Croisette was crowded, the sun came out, and over 15,000 industry professionals turned up. But something has shifted. I believe that we will look back at 2025 as an ...

Note: This week I will be at the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. If you want to grab a coffee, drop me a line. Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined ...