When it comes to naming your furry sidekick, there’s something undeniably magical about turning to the big screen for inspiration. From Disney flicks to nostalgic childhood favorites and even quirky ...

Movies with Latino leads also routinely receive lower production and marketing budgets, despite making just as much at the box office and earning higher Metacritic scores than their non-Latino-led ...

Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies can promote prosocial behavior — actions that benefits other people or ...

Reviews of movies with female-dominated casts were found to have much higher levels of sexism than those of films featuring mostly men, according to new research. The linguistic study of 17,165 film ...

The report from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative looked at the number of women and people of color directing last year's top-grossing movies. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Little progress has ...

A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has found that women and girls made up just 30% of the leading film roles in the top-major motion pictures of 2023, representing a 14 percentage ...

A recent brain-scan study sheds light on how people's brains divide continuous experiences into meaningful segments, like scenes in a movie. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used functional MRI scans to track which brain regions activated when 176 young adults watched scenes from "The Social Network," "Home Alone" ...