Box office numbers aren’t profit. Theaters take about half, marketing can cost as much as the movie itself, and a film usually needs to make two to three times its budget just to break even. Here’s ...

A lot of great math movies hinge on the United States not being the anti-intellectual capital of the world. 1997's Cube was conceived by mad mathematician David W. Pravica. He didn't write or direct, ...

“Math is truth,” says Mark Hamill’s aged patriarch, Albie Krantz, in Mike Flanagan’s recent adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck. “It’s used in everything. In every job. In every facet of ...

To most of us, mathematics seems abstract, mysterious, complex, and even out of reach. And at the same time, it is the language in which the world speaks to us. Mathematics can be sensual. She has ...