by Kyle Curtis | Feb 17, 2014 | Around the Web
This weekend’s RoboCop remake has been summarily rejected by moviegoers as it limps into third-place with a dismal $21.2 million box office showing, falling far short of the predicted $35 million take that was eye-balled by co-producers Sony and MGM Studios....
by Kyle Curtis | Jan 20, 2014 | Around the Web
An enterprising member of FlowingData’s depository of data visualization undertook a years-long effort to chartify each one of the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie quotes. The result is equal parts impressive and hilarious. Take a look for...
by Kyle Curtis | Jan 14, 2014 | Home Viewing
While in undergraduate film school during the late 1990s, I had a book idea regarding the semiotics of zombie films. Primarily inspired by the work of George Romero, potential chapters would include the moral pessimism of 1968’s original black-and-white “Night of the...
by Kyle Curtis | Jan 5, 2014 | News
Each year, the Library of Congress selects 25 American-made films to add to the National Film Registry. The Registry was created by the National Film Preservation Act to preserve films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant to...
by Kyle Curtis | Dec 30, 2013 | News
In 2006, two Information Science professors at Oklahoma State University attempted to use “neural networks”—analytical techniques that are capable of modeling extremely complex non-linear functions—to predict box-office success. I am not even going to attempt and...
