"Social media affect viewers because they speak to our natural tendency to follow the crowd—a phenomenon that scholars describe as the 'bandwagon effect.'"

A new report debunks the Hollywood myth that films with female or underrepresented minority lead actors tend to perform worse at the box office.

An expert on Rainier Maria Rilke offers his take on why the Austrian poet and novelist's words resonate, particularly in films like the new "Jojo Rabbit."

Could icy Hoth really exist? How about the iconic double suns of Tatooine? Experts on planetary formation, processes, and habitability discuss the science of Star Wars.

How do teen brains react to movie violence? It depends on whether the violence is justified or not, according to new research.

Check out this video to see how Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated movie BlacKkKlansman uses an old musical trick to unsettle movie-goers.

As of January 1, copyright restrictions have lifted on a wide range of creative works from 1923. "They now belong to everyone."

Rather than use dozens of cameras to capture an actor's motion to turn it into animation, a new method would only need two drones and a laptop.

Prepping your marathon of horror movies to celebrate Halloween? A movie expert explains their history and why frightening films work on us.