With festival season now behind us and the field of contenders coming into a more clear picture, we follow up on our first draft predictions with a second draft of above-the-line categories including Picture, Director, the Original and Adapted ...

After taking home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and playing 35mm prints in limited release around the country, Sean Baker’s Anora has now hit wide release in theaters. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impu...

To round out our festival season, we recap the Philadelphia Film Festival with a few contributors from our own team, as well as with a returning guest. We discuss the evolving state of the festival and its jam-packed lineup from the Philadelphi...

To celebrate spooky season and all the thrills and chills we’ve witnessed so far this year, we are doing a genre retrospective today covering the spectrum of horror movies released in 2024. Going all the way back to Night Swim, we recap our way...

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Edward Berger’s sophomore feature after the critical and awards success of All Quiet on the Western Front brings him inside the confines of the papacy with Conclave. When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretiv...

Matt Minton sits down to chat with co-directors Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés P. Estrada about their new film “Duino,” which had its New York premiere at NewFest 2024. The romantic, tender film executive produced by Norman Lear follows a decade...

Parker Finn returns to the world of smiling demons 2 years after the original Smile with Smile 2. About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed ...

The 62nd New York Film Festival has come to a close, and we debrief the lineup and festivities as the major festival season begins to wrap up.Listen Here:

LIVE FROM THE ROLLING TAPE ITS SATURDAY NIGHT! At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first br...

Jason Reitman is a Canadian-American filmmaker known for directing films including Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His career has featured frequent collaborations wit...

Following the 2019 bombshell origin story that became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion, Todd Phillips returns to the world of the Clown Prince of Crime with the sequel, Joker: Folie À Deux. Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at A...

For the 4th edition of Ladies Night this week, we break down ‘The Substance’ for our main discussion continuing our analysis of “the true female experience in film.” We also cover our favorites of 2024, thirst over ‘Gladiator 2,’ and get a visi...

A 40-year development for one of the most prolific American film directors, Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million self-financed Megalopolis has finally come to fruition. The story follows the city of New Rome in the main conflict between Cesar Ca...

The Wild Robot is the latest in the DreamWorks Animation studio catalog. Written and directed by Chris Sanders based on a book series of the same name, the film is also distributed by Universal Pictures. In the film, Roz, voiced by Nyong'o, is ...

DreamWorks Animation has been a major force in the world of animated storytelling since its inception in 1994. Founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, DreamWorks brought a new vision that has consistently pushed creat...

With a World Premiere at TIFF 2024, Amar Wala expands on his short film of the same name from 2018, Shook. After a run-in with his estranged father, aspiring writer Ashish or "Ash" learns a secret that will force him to balance family, love and...

When an introverted cartoonist's girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. Sook-Yin Lee's film is an auto-fictional adaptation of the Graphic Novel ...

Space Cowboy follows the personal and professional life of Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, who looks back on creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to turn a dreamlike vision into reality. Danny disc...

Matt Minton sits down to talk with Blessing Uzzi, the writer and executive producer of the Nigerian film Freedom Way, which is world premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Blessing talks about her inspirat...

From director Coralie Fargeat is the biggest sensation of body horror 2024 has to offer. The Substance premiered at Cannes earlier this year before playing Midnight Madness at TIFF. The story follows a fading celebrity who decides to use a blac...

The Rolling Tape is home from Toronto as the festival has wrapped up and we are here to recap our stay at TIFF 2024. We discuss the People's Choice Winner, highlight our favorites of the fest, and share stories while on the ground in Toronto.

With the Venice International Film Festival coming to a close, we recap the films and events of the fest and assess the slate of award winners including the Golden Lion winner.Listen Here:

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 River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life ...

Tim Burton's career is a journey through the surreal and the gothic, where the ordinary meets the bizarre in a visually stunning blend of emotion and imagination. Emerging in the mid-1980s, Burton quickly established himself as a director with ...