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I gathered data on the dates of the top 50 film festivals over the past 25 years to discover when is the busiest. And it was not what I expected.

I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters.

I crunched the data behind the state of "non-American" Hollywood movies, and considered how any system of American tariffs might work.

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What Netflix’s patents reveal about the future of watching movies I read through almost 500 Netflix patents to look at what the streaming has been tackling, building and disrupting.

I analysed almost 2,000 Oscar speeches to discover if the claim that Harvey Weinstein was thanked more often than God is true. Plus, we'll find out which Hollywood icon is bigger than both of them.