Jake Fittipaldi - THE ROLLING TAPE

October 30, 2025

NEWS 047: New York Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival & Philadelphia Film Festival Recaps 2025

After the long haul of the fall festival cycle, festival season has finally come to a close and we’re here to round up our experiences at each...

Lists

October 18, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

34th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Curtain Raiser

Now in its thirty-fourth year, the Philadelphia Film Festival continues to stand as one of the city’s most anticipated cultural events. Prese...

Reviews

October 8, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

Review: In ‘Roofman,’ Everyone Is Just Trying to Make Sense of It All

I first saw Roofman at TIFF 2025, deep into a week when most of us were running on caffeine and pure cinephilia. By that point, every film fe...

Reviews

September 29, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 ‘Shelby Oaks’ Review: Stuckmann’s Debut Experiments with Horror’s Many Languages

Fantastic Fest is a place where genre thrives, where filmmakers can take risks with form, tone, and structure. Few films in this year’s lineu...

The New Voice of News

September 19, 2025

NEWS 045: TIFF Recap 2025

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close and we are here to recap our team’s experience at the festival...

Essays

September 17, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

‘The Scarlet Letter’ for a New Generation: Why ‘Easy A’ Still Lasts

When Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850, he was grappling with the heavy machinery of shame, morality, and public judgm...

The Rolling Tape

September 15, 2025

EP 156: The Long Walk (2025)

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film co-produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by JT Mollner...

Reviews

September 14, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

TIFF 2025 ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Del Toro Gives Mary Shelley’s Story the Screen It Deserves

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is not just another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. It is, without hesitation, the finest ever ...

Reviews

September 11, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

TIFF 2025 ‘The Son and the Sea’ Finds Vulnerability on the Scottish Coast

From the first frame, The Son and the Sea unfolds like sunlight flickering over restless waters. Stroma Cairns’ camera roams the Scottish coa...

Reviews

September 8, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Folk Horror With More Craft Than Clarity

There’s something funny about Rabbit Trap: it might be one of the few horror films I’d recommend watching at home through headphones. Not bec...

Reviews

September 7, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

TIFF 2025 ‘No Other Choice’ Turns Joblessness Into a Fight for Survival

I know what it feels like to be laid off. Six months of my life were spent sending résumés into the void, waking up every morning with the sa...

The New Voice of News

September 2, 2025

NEWS 043: TIFF Preview 2025

With Venice and Telluride already underway, we’re now discussing the fall festivals specifically through the lens of the Toronto International...

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