Essays - THE ROLLING TAPE

December 24, 2025

Charles Dickens’ seminal work, A Christmas Carol, has burrowed into the fabric of mainstream culture. If you celebrate Christmas or even if y...

December 23, 2025

As the new Year looms on the horizon, so does the awards glory for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. With Best Film wins at th...

December 15, 2025

Over the past two years, my colleagues and I have discussed how the horror genre visualizes female anxiety about body autonomy. With the over...

December 4, 2025

The 83rd Golden Globe Nominations are just around the corner (December 8th), and the awards race has never felt more in flux. Over the next f...

December 1, 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s long-prophesied adaptation of Frankenstein has finally been released. It serves as the latest in a nearly century-old li...

November 28, 2025

In this time of live-action remakes after live-action remakes that add nothing to the source material, I find it important to look back at th...

November 10, 2025

The night outside Mannat felt like a familiar film close: a patchwork of phone lights bobbing in the dark, hand-painted placards trembling wi...

October 21, 2025

It’s been a while since the Supporting Actress has felt so wide open as this year’s race. There is one major figure who’s vying not only for ...

October 19, 2025

Fans of AMC’s Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe (myself included) have been thirsting for updates about where this gothic series is headed next. ...

October 13, 2025

Seventy-five years ago today, Bette Davis introduced the world to Margo Channing, the feisty protagonist of All About Eve (1950). It’s hard t...

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