CBNC reported recently that Contagion “incorporated input from more than a dozen scientists, emergency room doctors, bio-safety experts and epidemiologists.” They acknowledge that the “film is by no ...

The 2011 film “Contagion,” featuring an all-star cast of Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne, has seen a resurgence. People are rewatching the movie and ...

That, it turns out, is the film’s defining emotion. “Contagion” is a bad-dream biomedical disaster movie whose power is that it refuses, at every moment, to be “science fiction.” The film charts the ...

Yes, Contagion is a movie–and we know Hollywood isn’t exactly known for its accuracy. Especially when it comes to medicine. However, an article in New Scientist magazine actually praised Contagion for ...

The film "Contagion" and the book "World War Z" are fictional accounts of global pandemics, but can they teach us something about the real coronavirus pandemic that we are currently facing? The answer ...

A quiet cough never sounded as ominous as it does in the first few moments of the 2011 movie “Contagion.” The opening shot is not a shot at all. It’s a black screen. On the audio, you hear a cough.

Movie theaters may be closed, but if you’re looking for a cinematic escape, streaming options are endless. But right now, many people are gravitating toward realism. The 2011 film “Contagion” has ...

Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film "Contagion" was so accurate in depicting a pandemic that UC San Diego professor Joel Wertheim uses it to teach a class on epidemiology. Wertheim is a UC San Diego ...