Essays - THE ROLLING TAPE

September 25, 2025

In a recent interview with IMDb, the mononymous filmmaker Kogonada shared that his method of directing is to “be water,” and that feels true ...

September 24, 2025

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival had several running themes across various films. We saw education show up in Poet...

September 17, 2025

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

September 6, 2025

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of The Phantom of the Opera. Whether you’ve been in the orbit of a theatre kid who's p...

September 5, 2025

How does a 10-year-running Broadway sold out seater… grow up to be a movie in a theater? His name is Alexander Hamilton, and his Frank...

September 4, 2025

If you were to ask a cinephile to name a modern filmmaker who has shaped the coming-of-age genre, you would hear many say, Greta Gerwig. Whil...

August 26, 2025

If a Netflix film tops the domestic box office two months after it premiered on streaming, will Netflix care? That’s the most prescien...

August 19, 2025

When 2023’s Anyone But You became a sleeper hit, it felt as though the theatrical romantic comedy was back. Since then, the most popular on-s...

August 19, 2025

On Friday, August 8th, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced the expulsion of two members based on violating the terms and conditions ...

August 15, 2025

What a time it is to celebrate The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 50th anniversary, huh? I’m usually loath to ever call a film “impossible to ma...

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