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Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter

1 week ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter is a documentary that chronicles the tumultuous career of a chef who is equally acclaimed for making French cooking more accessible in the US and similarly frowned upon for his aggressive persona. Before Anthony Bourdain, before Gordon Ramsay, there was Charlie. The late Charlie Trotter was one of the earliest celebrity chefs of the modern day, an American culinary genius always ready with a stash of ever-changing menus.
Clown in a Cornfield

3 weeks ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

When moody teenager Quinn (Katie Douglas) moves to the sleepy town of Kettle Springs, she makes new friends and crosses paths with the local mascot: a sinister, ever-grinning clown called Frendo. A straightforward slasher that ticks off the usual genre elements, but one that still guarantees some violent fun. After debuting with cult favorite horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs.
Clown in a Cornfield - Interview with Film Director / Co-writer Eli Craig

3 weeks ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Eli Craig, the director behind cult horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, returns with the new slasher Clown in a Cornfield. In a pre-release chat, the director and co-writer breaks down his latest film, reveals how his teen son helped shape his Gen-Z characters, and explains why he might never make a horror comedy like Tucker and Dale again. Listen here.
Thunderbolts* (2025) Film Review

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Thunderbolts* unites washed-out, morally broken antiheroes like Yelena (Florence Pugh), Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and more into an unlikely team, a rag-tag bunch of heroes who have never been heroes. The results are more interesting than your usual post-Endgame Marvel movie. Colorful antiheroes and some “relatable” themes help Thunderbolts* battle the usual superhero cliches.
The Ugly Stepsister

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

The Norwegian body horror The Ugly Stepsister is a twisted take on Cinderella, following the turbulent (and rather pain-filled) life of dreamy adolescent Elvira (Lea Myren). Subjected to one beauty contraption after another by her iron-fisted mother, Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp), Elvira is heavily insecure in the face of her Cinderella-like stepsister, Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss). A delightfully dark, slow-burning retelling of Cinderella that strips the story of its Disney-ness.
Sinners (2025) Film Review [Spoiler Free]

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B Jordan) return to their roots in the Jim Crow South after a life of military service and mob politics. In an attempt to clean their act, the siblings invest in a jukebar, only to face more sinister forces on the opening night. A genre mishmash that delivers on all fronts. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, Sinners marks the first time Coogler relies on an original storyline.
Die Alone (2024) Film Review [Spoiler Free]

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Die Alone is a dystopian zombie drama that follows young amnesiac Ethan (Douglas Smith) desperately searching for his estranged girlfriend, Emma. His quest for survival teams him up with seasoned survivalist Mae (Carrie-Anne Moss). Together, they must face not just flesh-eating "plant zombies" but also the burden of their solitude. Lowell Dean crafts a tragically beautiful zombie film. It's hard to imagine that Canadian filmmaker Lowell Dean gained his initial fame with the WolfCop franchise.
Warfare (2025) Film Review [Spoiler Free]

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Steven Sung Hun Lee

Warfare is the latest A24 film by Alex Garland. This time, he co-wrote and co-directed it with Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza. Based on the true experience Mendoza went through during that time period, it follows a group of American Navy SEALs on a surveillance mission, but something goes wrong, and now they have to survive. When you first hear about the premise, you feel like you've seen it many times before. This is very different.
Die Alone - Interview with Writer / Director Lowell Dean

1 month ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

Lowell Dean's 2024 zombie drama Die Alone follows an amnesiac boy's pursuit of finding his girlfriend. In this candid interview, the Canadian filmmaker breaks down his dystopian tragedy, how his new film differs from his past campy works like WolfCop, avoiding too many parallels with the COVID-19 pandemic, and working with The Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss. Listen here.
The End (2024) Film Review [Spoiler Free]

2 months ago | borrowingtape.com | Shaurya Thapa

An absurdist musical satire in which a wealthy family's underground existence is disrupted by a stranger from a dystopian reality. An eat-the-rich satire stretched out as a musical. The End (2024) marks the feature film debut of Joshua Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker who previously raised eyebrows with docs like The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (both addressing genocidal killings in Indonesia with shocking "recreations" by the locals).