Jordan Blake

The 98th Academy Awards gave us records, firsts, and a few curveballs. Jordan Blake digs into the data behind the golden statues — from Sinners' record-shattering 16 nominations to the birth of an entirely new Oscar category.

Two of cinema's biggest prizes. Same art form, very different taste. We pulled runtime, genre, and origin data on every Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner since 2005 — and the numbers reveal two awards ceremonies that agree on almost nothing.

We dug into the spameri.cz database to find every Czech and Czechoslovak film we have indexed. Three Oscar wins, one of cinema's greatest directorial exports, and an average rating that consistently beats Hollywood averages. Here's what the numbers reveal about a century of Czech filmmaking.

Evil Dead Burn is the latest in a long line of horror franchise comebacks. We ran the numbers on every major horror series revival — from Scream to Halloween to Alien — and found a pattern the studios definitely already know: horror is the safest bet in Hollywood.

Two films have combined for $1.14 billion worldwide in mere weeks, Q1 domestic revenue is up 24.8% year-over-year, and April has already surpassed 2024's entire monthly total in just 12 days. The numbers say the post-COVID recovery is finally real.

For a decade, the safest bet at the box office was a familiar logo. In 2026, the numbers are telling a different story: a Star Wars movie is hemorrhaging market share to original genre films, and the gap between what nostalgia is supposed to deliver and what it actually returns has never been wider. Let me show you what the data says.

We crunched our entire movie database to find the real patterns behind ratings, genres, and audience favorites. The data tells a fascinating story.

Out of 1,132,666 movies in the spameri.cz database, only 479 score above 7.5 on Trakt while having fewer than 1,000 votes. We dug through them all. These are the 8 that deserve your attention right now.

Everyone says movies are getting worse. The data disagrees — at least for thrillers. We dug into 53,000 thriller movies in the spameri.cz database and found a surprising trend: after a decade-long dip, thriller ratings have been climbing since 2019.