Ethan Dayton
Ethan is a certified lover of entertainment. After graduating from the Creative Industries program at Toronto Metropolitan University, he now works as a freelance writer for organizations including The Rolling Tape, That Shelf, ForReel and Cineplex Entertainment News. Since Ethan already spends so much time in his head, writing felt like the most natural career path for him. With an intense passion for storytelling, Ethan is also a screenwriter who has worked under the mentorship of Back Alley Films and Zadan/Meron Productions, where he developed his original television series, IF LOOKS COULD KILL.
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No matter how much research you do, there’s always at least one movie that sneaks up on you every year at the Toronto International Film Fest...
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TIFF 2025: ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Makes Me Want a Knives Out Movie Every Year
Returning to the world of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) is like running into the arms of the safest loved one you know, an ironic sentimen...
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TIFF 2025: ‘Mile End Kicks’ Proves Barbie Ferreira is a Leading Lady
Barbie Ferreira is a highly talented actress who is not well-known to many people. She first appeared on people’s televisions in a mainstream...
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TIFF 2025: 'Follies' is a French-Canadian Sex Comedy that Proves Canadians Can Get Freaky Too
It’s not very often we get a good sex comedy, let alone one that’s also thematically rich, genuinely funny, unafraid of showing some skin, an...
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TIFF 2025: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Is Everything We Wanted ‘Nightbitch’ To Be
The only people who know how hard it is to be a mom are mothers. Many movies have tried to capture the anxiety and difficulties motherhood br...
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TIFF 2025 Curtain Raiser
Fall festival season is underway, with premieres of some of the biggest titles of 2025. This year marks the 50th Toronto International Film F...
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‘Alien: Earth’ Review: Noah Hawley Delivers The Best Alien Entry Since Ridley Scott’s Original Film
This is a spoiler-free review of the first six episodes of FX’s ‘Alien: Earth.’
The Alien franchise has been a cinematic staple ...
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: A Painful Reminder Of Hollywood’s Current State
With Universal Pictures finally deciding to stake its claim in the live-action remake space after watching Disney rake in billions for over a...
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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Review: A Simultaneously Fresh & Classic Take On Marvel’s Most Popular Hero
The following is a SPOILER-FREE review for all 10 episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which drops episodes on Disney+ every We...
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‘Agatha All Along’ Review: The Unlikely Spin-Off That Could
The following is a SPOILER review for Episodes 1-4 of Agatha All Along, which streams on Disney+ every Wednesday at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST.
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‘The Crow’ Review: A Dark Fantasy So Dull That Reality Seems Brighter
To start this review with an endorsement: fans of the 1994 version of The Crow, directed by Alex Proyas and starring the late Brandon Lee, wh...
The Awards Tape
September 2, 2026
The Awards Tape: 78th Primetime Emmy Awards (2026) Final Predictions
The 78th Emmy Awards are just a couple of weeks away, with the main ceremony airing Monday, September 14, and the Creative Arts Emmys taking p...
The Rolling Remote
July 28, 2026
The Rolling Remote: Channel Surfing for TV & Recommendations for Widow's Bay, Hacks & Beginner Anime
We're going channel surfing for round 2! If you missed our last Channel Surfing episode, instead of spending an hour diving deep into a s...
The Rolling Tape
July 17, 2026
Summer 2026 Box Office Draft Check-In
The Summer 2026 Box Office Draft returns. This is our check-in episode. We kicked off the second annual edition of our Summer Box Office Draft...
The Rolling Tape
June 29, 2026
EP 195: Supergirl (2026) & Blind Ranking DC Movies
Supergirl is the second film in the DCU created by James Gunn and Peter Safran, following Superman from 2025. Clayface will follow this year a...
The Rolling Tape
May 12, 2026
The Rolling Remote: Euphoria (S3, Episodes 1-4)
Today on The Rolling Remote, we are talking about the currently airing third season of Euphoria, HBO's phenomenon of a TV series created ...
The Rolling Tape
May 9, 2026
Summer 2026 Box Office Draft
It’s feeling humid. It’s feeling like summer is very nearly upon us. That of course, means it’s time for us to reconvene for our second annual...
The Rolling Remote
April 28, 2026
The Rolling Remote: Beef (S2) & A24's Dark Comedy Anthology on Netflix
We are finally stepping outside of our usual HBO bubble at The Rolling Remote because today we're heading to Netflix to talk about Beef S...
The Awards Tape
April 15, 2026
The Awards Tape: 79th Cannes Film Festival In Competition Lineup Analysis & Palme d'Or Predictions
The Cannes Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is just a month away, running May 12–24. This past Thursday...
The Rolling Remote
March 31, 2026
The Rolling Remote: Euphoria (S2)
It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we continue our retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria. With the show retur...
The Rolling Remote
March 24, 2026
The Rolling Remote: Euphoria (S1)
It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we are kicking off a brand new retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria. With...
The Rolling Tape
December 19, 2025
EP 168 Pre-Episode: Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' Billboard & 'Supergirl' Trailer
To hear more bonus pre-episode conversations like this, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1/month for early access and video episodes...
The Rolling Tape
December 15, 2025
EP 168: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
Wake Up Dead Man is written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is a standalone sequel to Glass Onion (2022) and the third installment overall in...
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