Technology in Movies

Escapist fair works best when it doesn't make tech and computing look dumb. These films fit the bill It's practically a universal law that people in certain jobs don't watch movies or TV shows about their o...

Every Job is a STEAM Job is our series looking at why kids will need tech literacy and coding skills to succeed in their future careers, no matter where those careers take them. Previously, we looked at how te...

Science fiction has a habit of turning into science fact. Usually, that’s because a good sci-fi writer has some level of scientific knowledge, or at least interest. They can look at where the world is now and...

Stanley Ka Dabba director Amol Gupte, for example, didn’t want to intimidate the child actors in his movie with big cameras and burning lights. So he used a small Canon 7D DSLR (5.8 x 4.4 x 2.9 inches...

Around the time Leonardo Da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also writing his Codex on the Flight of Birds, a roughly 35,000-word exploration of the ways in which man might take to the air. His illu...

Aw shucks! Prince William and Harry shot cameo roles as storm troopers in ‘The Last Jedi,’ but their appearance didn’t make the final cut. We’ve now got their deleted scene! Prince William, 35, and bro...

Most of us remember the late Jerry Lewis (1926 - 2017) as a comic actor inhabiting worlds of film, television, stage, and radio. Millions of baby boomers recall the teaming of him and Dean Martin (1946–1956) ...

Pirate "cam" copies of movies may one day be a thing of the past, thanks to a new patent. Content creators and cinemas have tried everything from piracy-busting patrols to embedded watermarks, but nothing seem...

No performance from 2016 was met with quite the fascination of Guy Henry’s turn in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — and he wasn’t even one of the few actors not involved in the film’s worldwide media blit...

Dev Patel plays a man searching for his long-lost home on Google Earth in "Lion" (left), while Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Edward Snowden in "Snowden" (right). Commentary: Two of this year's most powerful mov...