Last night I had the absolute pleasure of watching American Graffiti (1973) at the ActOne Cinema in Acton, and then listening to Mark Kermode quiz Walter Murch about how he built its sound. Murch ...

How tall does Tom Cruise look in his movies? I measured 8 million frames from 2,000 films to find out whether Hollywood's ...

Last Friday I was in Munich to speak at the Creators Conference of the German Producer Alliance as part of the Munich Film Festival. It was a really fun project as the event’s curator, Erwin M.

A few days ago, a new UK film distributor, True Brit Entertainment, went into administration. It had been launched under three years ago, intending to co-finance $150m of British films. In the end, it ...

My recent article on the prevalence and types of plot twists brought on a flurry of interesting reader questions. Unlike that article, there are no spoilers in today’s piece. (I figured that ruining ...

At every grade, the films watched mostly by women get the lower IMDb rating. Among films graded A or A+ on opening night, the ...

I saw Jurassic Park: Rebirth in my local cinema this weekend and I’m annoyed. Now, I know what you’re thinking - How can they possibly justify that title, given that: Of the nine featured dinosaurs, ...

Digger, starring Tom Cruise, opens today. Apparently it cost $125 million to make, but Deadline’s current tracking estimates its ‘domestic debut prospects’ at ‘around $20M’. Deadline is not alone - ...

The Berlin and Cannes film festivals are such big events in my professional calendar, and as they take place in February and May, respectively, I tend to regard the first half of the year as the ...

Last week I gave a keynote at the Locarno Film Festival, following a request by the organisers to give the well-connected audience a ‘slap in the face’. This is exactly the kind of brief I relish, so ...