Essays - THE ROLLING TAPE

October 29, 2024

After ending the twentieth century with a brief slasher revival, sparked by the 1996 release of Scream, the horror genre, in Hollywood, at l...

October 25, 2024

We all know the story: on an eerie Halloween night, little Michael Myers stabs his older sister Judith to death and is committed to a sanitor...

October 21, 2024

I was 13 when Bachna Ae Haseeno, produced by Yash Raj Films featuring Ranbir Kapoor, was about to be released. The chatter was about how Rish...

September 27, 2024

What do I want to tell you about Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)? I could start anywhere with the Studio Ghibli film, directed by icon Hayao Miya...

September 24, 2024

On September 22nd, 2004, audiences were stunned as they witnessed the beginning of one of the most revolutionary and influential television s...

September 23, 2024

Federico Fellini is one of those filmmakers who gets brought up regarding the foundation of modern cinema, and that’s for good reason. Whethe...

September 19, 2024

A forty-year-old period piece about rival classical composers doesn’t seem like it would hold a lot of weight in today’s digitally-driven cul...

September 16, 2024

French cinema has always had a certain aura to it. The films feel elevated to a level higher than their North American counterparts; it’s alm...

September 5, 2024

The horror genre kicked 2024 off with an anomaly: two films, made by two completely different studios, with similar premises, released mere w...

September 2, 2024

I have a confession: I have more cinematic blindspots than I care to count. It’s a constant source of stress, honestly. The sea of content th...

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