Attending a film festival is an exciting experience. It can also be expensive, surprising, inspiring, trying, exhausting, ...

It: Chapter Two is an unusual horror film because it’s almost three hours long. This means it is longer than 99.78% of all horror films made over the past twenty years. Earlier in the year Avengers: ...

I am currently at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), experiencing Canadian hospitality, international films and British jetlag. TIFF is a lot larger than I suspect most people realise.

In the past few weeks I’ve looked at the age of action heroes, Hollywood screenwriters and Hollywood directors, and now I am finishing the journey by looking at the age of Hollywood film producers. I ...

In my previous article, I looked at the topic of Hallmark Christmas movies. It took me deep down the Hallmark rabbit hole, and I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey into schmaltzy, feel-good ...

The film industry is full of under-appreciated people whose work doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Visual effects teams make movie stars look younger, body doubles make them look sexier and ...

This is the first of three articles about Film Festivals. In part 2 I will publish a survey I have conducted with film festival directors around the world, showing the data on their point of view.

Last month, I published a report into what percentage of crews on the top US grossing films of the past 20 years are women. I found that, on average, women made up only 23% of a typical film crew and ...

On the latest episode of the podcast Scriptnotes, the hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, were talking about Hallmark Christmas movies. Craig asked, “How many do we think there have been?” to which ...

It appears to me that the UK film industry is currently in a period of increased introspection. Even before the Brexit vote, I noticed a rise in the number of questions I received from industry ...

Today’s article is in response to a question from Jack Malvern at The Times. He got in touch to ask if fewer romantic comedies were being made. There has been press speculation that the “rom-com” ...