Readers here know I’m into films and movies (yes, there’s a difference). I recently stumbled on the YouTube channel CinemaStix.

Danny Boyd is the creator of the channel, and as he explains it, “CinemaStix is an independent movie channel dedicated to the celebration and craft of filmmaking. Saturdays you’ll find new filmmaking stories and video essays on everything from directing to cinematography, to performances, to screenwriting. Or just fascinating production stories from great and popular movies.”

I became interested with the video, “When the audience doesn’t get the joke,” about the 2000 satirical psychological horror movie “American Psycho.” That satire — in large measure a takedown of toxic masculinity and male vanity — didn’t resonate with original theater audiences. The movie after its theatrical run grew a cult following, however.

That episode led to watching “This is the tightest comedy dialogue ever,” about how good the director Edgar Wright’s callbacks are in the zombie comedy horror “Sean of the Dead.” And I took off from there.

Most of the videos have those kinds of unpretentious headlines, and Boyd’s analysis also is devoid of pretension, making for easy access to a better understanding of what filmmakers are trying to do. Most of the videos are no more than 11 minutes.

CinemaStix is about a year old. The latest video essay as of Dec. 1 is “When the movie’s average shot length is more than literally 3 seconds,” about M. Night Shyamlan’s superhero drama “Unbreakable,” which breaks with the convention of modern movies and has an average shot length of about 20 seconds. Boyd shows why that matters and the differences a longer shot can make.