Season one of AMC’s Interview With The Vampire (2022) from AMC just dropped on Netflix US, allowing a new plethora of fans to sink their teeth into this gothic-horror romantic drama. Amidst the hig…

When a new filmmaker emerges with their debut feature, an exciting feeling begins to blossom. The interest that may not have been there prior from studios and audiences begins to elevate. A major q…

We’re now headlong into festival season, and buzz has already started to grow out of Venice, Telluride, and more. This week, another massive film festival will kick off in Toronto. This year’s Toro…

Chloe Domont’s sensual directorial debut begins with the reassuring impression of true love. After getting drunk at a party, Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) find themselves in a …

Dev Patel steps behind the camera for the first time with his directorial debut, Monkey Man, which he also writes and stars in. The story follows an anonymous young man who unleashes a campaign of …

The musical is a genre of movie that rose in popularity in Hollywood’s Golden Age through its reliance on star power and the song and dance numbers that engaged audiences in exciting ways. Today, t…

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 culture. On the surface, Amadeus (1984), is an opulent Osca…

Cord Jefferson has established a name for himself in television, having written episodes of The Good Place and Watchmen, for which he garnered an Emmy in 2020. Making his feature film debut with Am…

With a long line of auteurs lending their hand to the Alien franchise, Fede Alvarez takes a turn with the standalone effort Alien: Romulus. Taking place between the events of Alien and Aliens, whil…

We recently had the opportunity as an outlet to cover one of the most prominent spring festivals, SXSW in Austin, Texas. As the festival comes to a close, we recap our festival experiences as an ou…

Drea Clark is a Film Producer, a Programmer for Sundance Film Festival and Bentonville with experience at LA and Slamdance Film Festivals. She’s produced three feature films, The Last Time You Had …

With three team members from The Rolling Tape going to TIFF in a couple of weeks time, we discuss an in-depth look at the TIFF lineup and detail our schedules and priorities for what we want to see…

The “Barbenheimer” craze has captivated audiences for months in anticipation of July 21st to suggest one of the most iconic release dates of the century. With both films, Barbie directed by Greta G…

Within every story about a corrupt and blood-driven underbelly, there is an invisible force that slowly and indirectly pushes it down and starves it to crave the greed and wrath it seeks out. Most …

I will always remember the feeling in my stomach when I got the email confirming that I had been accepted to cover the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for The Rolling Tape: my very …

Richard Linklater is no stranger to jumping from one genre to another: teen comedies, romantic dramas, rotoscope animations, and time-centered pictures. With his latest Hit Man, Linklater returns t…

It’s funny to me that the term “blockbuster” has become such an all-encompassing term for, essentially, a movie made to make a lot of money. They serve generally as crowd-pleasers, a film that is s…

When the announcement of The Boy and the Heron being the opener for the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival dropped, everyone and their mother were losing their minds – and rightfully so…

Joanna Naugle, ACE, is a Brooklyn-based editor renowned for her work on a range of films, comedy specials, and TV shows. Her notable projects include “Ramy” (Hulu), “Big MouthR…

Today’s major headline is the announcement of the full lineup for the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival where we can now expect an outpouring of celebrities to hit the red carp…

To kick off the new post-Oscars cycle of reviews, we have the ultimate heavyweight fight, the title card of creature features, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire directed by Adam Wingard and starring …

There has been a small trend throughout the last decade of horror that I suspect will grow more widespread as the years go by. Budding filmmakers who have taken to YouTube as a platform to publish …

After a certain point in a movie’s prolonged development cycle, you must wonder whether it’s worth it to keep going. Should you cut your losses to avoid being responsible for the creation of what c…

As a standalone story within the universe of the 1996 film Twister, Lee Isaac Chung brings tornadoes back to the big screen with lega-sequel Twisters which follows a retired tornado-chaser and mete…

**This podcast was recorded before the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist.**In The Adults, …

Bryan Sudfield’s 27 Films of TIFF 2023 As the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival reaches its conclusion, I thought I’d look back on all 27 films I watched throughout my six-day period o…

The girls are all here! This week we got together to discuss Women’s History Month and some of our favorite women in film. Listen to us discuss Barbie, international film, gender, female-led films …

In the closing couple of weeks before the 96th Academy Awards with all major televised awards now in the rearview mirror, we cast our final predictions for all feature categories. We discuss the st…

Based on the true story of the Von Erich family, director Sean Durkin dives into the 1980’s world of professional wrestling with The Iron Claw, his third feature film. Starring Zac Efron,…

The fall film festival season is in full swing! Audiences are being bombarded with critic reviews, press tours, red carpet photos, and letterboxd lists all sharing which films have mandated viewing…

The juice is loose! Tim Burton returns to the afterlife with a sequel to his iconic 1988 classic Beetlejuice. After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter Riv…

The Alien movie franchise, spanning over four decades, is one of the most iconic and enduring series in science fiction and horror filmmaking history. What began in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s A…

Unlike other film festivals around the world that rely on jury prizes for their top awards, one of the things that makes the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) unique is the TIFF People’s C…

With the upcoming release of Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters, we revisit the 1996 original Twister directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Cary Elwes. We discuss the significan…