A new video from me, under The Film Data Scientist banner, examining the claim that "Go woke, go broke" applies to movies.

There is significantly less sex in mainstream films than there was twenty years ago. Not less violence. Not less swearing.

As another year’s European Film Market winds down, I have completed my annual round-up of what I saw, heard, and read. A major reason I attend these events is to listen to what people talk about, what ...

If you ask most people about Darren Aronofsky's drug-fuelled mad 2000 classic movie Requiem for a Dream, they will say the same thing: Wow, such a great movie. I’m never watching it again. So much so ...

Next Thursday, I shall be joining many in the film community in wintry Berlin for the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. (If you’re going to be in Berlin too, reach out, and we can grab a ...

I think we all suspect that if a distributor is preventing critics from reviewing a movie, it’s not because they’re so pleased with how good it is that they want to make sure the critics really enjoy ...

Over the years I have been asked why I don’t have a YouTube channel, especially given the cinematic nature of the things I study. The honest answer is just time. But over the past few months I have ...