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

I analysed over 200,000 errors across 11,842 films released between 1930 and 2025, to understand where and how audiences say movies gets facts, physics, and history wrong.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...