Publications - THE ROLLING TAPE

Lists

February 28, 2025 · by Owen Wilczek

2025 Best Picture Nominees Ranked

The Oscars are just a few days away, and this awards season has been full of twists and turns. This Best Picture race, and the awards season ...

Reviews

February 27, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

‘The Unbreakable Boy’ Review: Faith-Based Feel-Good Autism Biopic on an Entirely Different Wavelength from Reality

To understand Jon Gunn’s The Unbreakable Boy (2025), it’s important to know its history. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the biographica...

Lists

February 27, 2025 · by Kam Ryan

Best Actor Winners of the 2020s Ranked

For our final rankings of the Academy Award acting categories across the 2020s, we arrive at Best Actor in a Leading Role. The Best Actor Awa...

Lists

February 26, 2025 · by Adam Patla

My Top 10 Movies About Movies

Award season will come to a close with the 97th Annual Academy Awards on March 2, the biggest celebration of the film industry. What better w...

Reviews

February 25, 2025

International Feature Film Festival ‘Supermarket’ Review: A Glittering and Unnerving Oscar Bid from Montenegro

It is a truth universally acknowledged that locations with a closing time are intriguing for what happens after the lights go off. These limi...

Reviews

February 25, 2025 · by Kam Ryan

International Feature Film Festival ‘Bad Living’ Review: Portugal’s Quiet Revolutionary Soap Opera

I had never seen a Portuguese film before I watched Bad Living (2023). The country nestled next to Spain on the Iberian peninsula is one whos...

Reviews

February 25, 2025 · by Nadia Arain

‘The Monkey’ Review: Osgood Perkins’ Most Violent Film Is Also His Most Absurd

Existentialism is more evident in film than ever given the current societal shifts. In recent and upcoming films, there are common themes abo...

Reviews

February 24, 2025 · by Nandita Joshi

'I'm Still Here' Review: Walter Salles Navigates the Challenge of Redefining Yourself

"New year, new me" - an overtly optimistic phrase everyone has heard at least once. It is rooted in the concept of reinvention, specifically ...

Interviews

February 22, 2025 · by Danny Jarabek

SLAMDANCE 2025 Interview With 'Stolen Kingdom' (2025) Writer/Directors, Joshua Bailey

Landon Defever speaks with Stolen Kingdom writer/director Joshua Bailey on his background and connection to the Disney universe and how it bro...

Reviews

February 21, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

‘Zero Day’ Review: De Niro’s Mini-Series Gets Muddied in the Waters of Well-Intentioned Calls to Action

If there is any indication of what films or shows to expect during Trump 2.0, Zero Day is a strong starting point. A month into President Tru...

Essays

February 21, 2025 · by Carson Burton

Marvel’s Politics of Apathy: There’s Nothing Brave to 'Captain America: Brave New World'

At the beginning of Captain America: Brave New World (2025), Harrison Ford’s Thaddeus Ross stands before a crowd to celebrate his election vi...

Essays

February 20, 2025 · by Nadia Arain

How Badly Did ‘The Duff’ Age?

Often, it seems that the high school comedy has become overshadowed by social media, the primary entertainment for teenagers. By 2015, most t...

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