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The Rolling Tape
by The Rolling Tape
The Rolling Tape podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.
Episodes
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The Awards Tape: NYFF 2026 Recap & World Premieres in the Awards Race ft. Hannah Zook
On today's episode with our regular Awards Editor and host Paul Rai away, we recap the New York Film Festival with our team's attendees and special guest, Hannah Zook. This year's NYFF ran from September 25th through October 12th. It featured over one hundred films from more than forty five...
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EP 211: You Can See Everything Inside This Sperm Whale's Stomach (Whalefall & You Can See Everything)
Wow you can see everything inside this whale’s stomach! That’s an unconfirmed quote by Austin Abrams but also the title of the third double feature in our month-long cross-programming celebration. It’s arguably one of the busiest release weekends of the entire calendar year with no shortage of...
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*PFF 2026* Interview with 'Yale' (2026) Director, Jay Silverman & Writer, Van Billet
Yale, written by Philadelphia native Van Billet and directed by Jay Silverman, tells the true story of Billet’s grandfather, Yale Parker (Kevin Dunn), a burlesque comedian and serial bigamist who walked out on several families. It’s told through his daughter Mackenzie (Caitlin McGee), who has to...
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Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club Presents 'Verity' from Colleen Hoover (2018) to Michael Showalter (2026)
Listen up, divas. This month on Read Receipts we’re diving deep into Colleen Hoover’s sick, twisted mind for a movie vs. book analysis of Verity. Read Receipts is a big screen book club from The Rolling Tape where we read a book and watch its onscreen adaptation. Our first episode was on…
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The Awards Tape: Post-Fall Festival Best Picture Predictions 2026-27 From The Odyssey to Artificial
See our full Oscar board predictions here. Welcome to October and award season! The major fall film festivals have wrapped up, from Venice and Telluride to TIFF and now the New York Film Festival. So many anticipated awards contenders have premiered, delivering receptions that have either…
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EP 210: Other Mommy, The Social Reckoning & Aaron Sorkin Carnating 'Other Social Network'
The Mommy Reckoning is here. Stepchildren, it's your time to shine. We're here to reckon with our childhood trauma and Instagram-induced body image issues. In other news, our month-long double feature programming is continuing into week two with Other Mommy (not a sequel to Mommy) and The Social...
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*TIFF 2026* Interview with 'Infinitely Dense' (2026) Director, Ace Thor & Actor, Glen Steele
As part of the TIFF Market Screening, Infinitely Dense follows a man who employs an augmented reality system to escape his lonely life, only to confront the dark consequences of bending reality to his will. We are joined by the director, Ace Thor, and actor, Glen Steele, to discuss their process...
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The Awards Tape: Sixteen Years of The Social Network, The Legacy of the 2011 Oscars & The Social Reckoning is Coming
Do I have your attention, or do I have the minimum amount? We're talking about David Fincher's eighth directorial effort, The Social Network, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence, and Max Minghella. The film was adapted by Aaron Sorkin from the...
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The Rolling Remote: Lanterns (S1), Comic Book TV & The Future of the DCU
In brightest day, in blackest night, no bad TV shall escape our sight. Let those who watch it day and night beware the power of The Rolling Remote’s light... The Rolling Remote is The Rolling Tape’s official home for all things television and today we are talking about Lanterns, HBO’s new take on...
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EP 209: Verity & Digger or: How I Learned to Save Humanity and Love My Wife's Ghostwriter
Hot Diggity! That’s Digger and Verity for those at home wondering, it’s a double feature day on The Rolling Tape podcast, but not just any double feature, it’s the start of October and all month long we are going to be celebrating cross programming with not one, but two sides to each of our…
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Ladies Night: 9 to 5 (1980), Steel Magnolias (1989) & A Tribute to Dolly Parton
We explore Dolly Parton's incredible impact on film and her legacy as a feminist icon through her movies, including 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias. We discuss her cultural influence, philanthropic work, and enduring legacy and impact on culture, fashion, and sisterhood through a deep dive into her...
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In the Queue: September Recommendations, Buddy (2026) & Watchlist Shuffles for Horror Movies
Welcome back to In The Queue, a new show in The Rolling Tape network of podcasts that answers the question “What should I watch this weekend?” Every month, we line up what’s in theaters, what’s headlining our watchlists, and what we recommend adding to yours. With Practical Magic 2, Buddy, and...
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The Awards Tape: Twenty Years of The Departed & The Legacy of the 2007 Oscars ft. Ryan Casselman
Break out your cranberry juice, your microprocessors, and your Nokia flip phones, because we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's The Departed with special guest Ryan Casselman! One caveat, though: the film was released theatrically on October 6, 2006, so upon release, we're...
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EP 208: Primetime (2026) & Blind Ranking Robert Pattinson Performances
“You know how this looks right?” Primetime premiered in the main competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2026, where it competed for the Golden Lion. It has since been released theatrically by A24 as of September 25. Primetime follows the production of the hit…
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The Awards Tape: TIFF 2026 Recap & Post-Fall Festival Oscar Predictions
*TIFF Recap recorded BEFORE the People's Choice Announcement* See all of The Rolling Tape's TIFF 2026 coverage here. By the time you're listening to this, the 51st Toronto International Film Festival will have wrapped up its 11-day run, which featured world premieres of Siân Heder's Being…
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EP 207: Resident Evil (2026) & Guess the Video Game Adaptation Letterboxd Review Game
After seven live action films in the video game adaptation franchise, Resident Evil is back in business with Zach Cregger at the helm coming off the meteoric Oscar sensation for Amy Madigan in Weapons in his third feature. Resident Evil is directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger and Shay...
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Interview with 'Agridulce' (2026) Producer, Benjamin de Menil
Bachata music dominates the world today. With artists like Luis Vargas, Anthony Santos, Juan Luis Guerra, and Romeo Santos, the upbeat tunes with the somber lyrics are a staple of Hispanic and Latino clubs, parties, weddings, and so on. The music has a long history – it’s one that contemporary...
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*TIFF 2026* Interview with 'Being Heumann' (2026) Producers, John Beach & Kevin Cleary
Judy Heumann lived a storied life, challenging the status quo, exposing governmental flaws, and giving a voice to one of the most marginalized, castaway communities: people with disabilities. She passed away suddenly in 2023 at age 75, after years of involvement in the movie adaptation of her...
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*TIFF 2026* Interview with 'Kick On' (2026) Director, Nick Kozakis
Nick Kozakis is already on his third feature film, but this year marks his first TIFF appearance and his first Midnight Madness world premiere. Kick On follows a group of partiers looking to score to keep their night going, only to cross the wrong mob boss and end up in a bloody fight for…
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*TIFF 2026* Interview with 'Sunburn' (2026) Director, Serville Poblete
Making its World Premiere at TIFF 2026 and directed by Serville Poblete, Sunburn is a hang-out movie set in St. James Town, a high-rise community in Toronto, and follows a group of young people trying to stay cool during the summer’s hottest day. The temperature triggers a power outage, which…
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The Rolling Remote: 78th Primetime Emmy Awards (2026) Recap & The Future of the Emmys
After the ceremony on Monday night hosted by Mariska Hargitay and her double-digit outfit changes, we recap the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. We discuss everything from the broadcast itself to our thoughts on the host, all of the various comedy bits, the televised vs. non-televised categories, to…
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The Awards Tape: Venice Recap, Telluride/TIFF Reactions & Oscar Predictions Pulse Check
See The Rolling Tape's Venice coverage here. We're in the thick of fall festival season. The Venice International Film Festival wrapped up last week with its Main Competition awards as the jury gave Woman Unknown the prestigious Golden Lion, while the Telluride Film Festival went out with an...
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EP 206: Practical Magic 2 (2026) & Hope (2026)
Fall festivals are in full swing with Venice just recently announcing the Golden Lion, Telluride buzzing with Nathan Fielder shenanigans and secret screenings, and TIFF just beginning to play its wide slate of premieres, but while much of our team is abroad watching those movies we are here…
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Live Commentary: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Watch our live commentary on video by subscribing to our Patreon! We are back with a LIVE COMMENTARY WATCHALONG of a movie that you've been voting for on our Instagram stories over the past couple of weeks. After making it through our bracket of 16 contenders, we have a winner, and we're here to...
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Interview with 'Black Zombie' (2026) Director, Maya Annik Bedward
Zombies are an iconic feature of horror that have existed for almost a century, the earliest representation appearing in White Zombie (1932). However, how much do we really know about the roots of the zombie, where did they come from, and what does it tell us about our culture and our…
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The Awards Tape: TIFF Preview 2026
With Telluride wrapping up and Venice getting ready to deliver the Golden Lion, we are now previewing the Toronto International Film Festival. We have five team members who will be in attendance at the 51st edition of TIFF and today we discuss an in-depth look at the TIFF lineup and detail our...
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EP 205: Onslaught (2026) & A24 Rotten Tomatoes Mini-Game
Just mere hours after A24 premiered their major festival venture in Primetime at the Venice International Film Festival, and a surprise screening of You Can See Everything at Telluride, we review their current theatrical release Onslaught. It’s not our first Adam Wingard joint, following up our...
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Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club Presents 'The Dog Stars' from Peter Heller (2012) to Ridley Scott (2026)
There were dogs. There were stars. There were dog stars. We read them. We watched them. And it’s time for our receipts. So welcome back to Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling Tape where each month we read a book and watch its onscreen adaptation. This month we read The Dog…
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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 place September 5 and 6. Half of The Rolling Tape team will be traveling around the globe between Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival, so we...
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EP 204: The Dog Stars (2026) & Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
Double feature day, The Rolling Tape’s 4-year anniversary, celebrating Dolly Parton, Peter Cullen, and Tim Curry (science fiction double feature anyone?). A lot on the table for this week’s episode as we look back on 4 years and 637 episodes of the podcast. We review two films in theaters, The…
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Ladies Night & Women in Film Spotlight: Kelly Reichardt
In our second Women in Film Spotlight for Ladies Night, we delve into the career of Kelly Reichardt spotlighting two of her films: First Cow and The Mastermind. Both films reflect her unique storytelling style of slow cinema that challenges conventional narratives while exploring profound themes...
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The Awards Tape: 2027 Oscar Contenders Draft Final Rosters
See our live Fantasy results here on our website. We're taking a bit of a pause from our ongoing Oscar predictions to revisit the Oscar Contenders Fantasy Draft we started back in April. A group of us drafted films we believed would be major awards contenders, and we accumulate points based on…
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EP 203: Speed Run Reviews of Maddie’s Secret, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, and It Ends & Venice, TIFF, and NYFF Previews
Instead of stepping inside the Insidious franchise this weekend with Insidious: Out of the Further, we’re switching it up here today because summer is winding down, and also we make the rules here. Rather than our typical review of one movie, we are reviewing four that have stood out to our team...
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Interview with 'It Ends' (2026) Director, Alex Ullom
It’s been six years since the idea for It Ends entered writer-director Alex Ullom’s brain. The “hangout horror” film played the festival circuit, where it generated considerable buzz (you can read our team’s review from last year’s Chicago Critics Fest here). It then went on to be one of the…
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The Awards Tape: Ten Years of La La Land & The Legacy of the 2017 Oscars
Is it another day of sun? Or is there someone in the crowd on this lovely night, as a city of stars shines bright for those who dare to dream? If that gives you any indication, we're talking about the Oscar-winning musical La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. It's a bittersweet...
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The Rolling Remote: House of the Dragon (S3), Season MVP's & The Future of Westeros
Today, we're heading back to Westeros. After more than two years away, House of the Dragon is finally back for its long-awaited third season. And it's time for the Dance of the Dragons, the war we've been waiting for and the conflict fans have been asking to see fully erupt. The season opens with...
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EP 202: The End of Oak Street (2026) & Blind Ranking Dinosaur Movies
Before we officially get into the buzz of the fall festival circuit, it’s good to take a step back in time and reflect on bygone eras of planetary history. Today in fact, we’re embracing that by going 200 million years in reverse to the age of dinosaurs with David Robert Mitchell and The End of…
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In the Queue: August 2026 Recommendations & Watchlist Shuffles for Rom-Coms
Welcome back to In The Queue, a new show in The Rolling Tape network of podcasts that answers the question “What should I watch this weekend?” Every month, we line up what’s in theaters, what’s headlining our watchlists, and what we recommend adding to yours. We kicked off this series all the way...
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The Awards Tape: Pre-Fall Festival Oscar Predictions 2026-27
In just a few weeks, Venice, Telluride, New York, and Toronto will kick off a new cycle of anticipated awards contenders, with premieres and early reactions that will reshape our already exhaustive Oscar predictions. This is where some of our assumptions about certain films will go to die, or be...
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EP 201: One Night Only (2026) & Ranking Rom-Com Movie Couples
You know what's more romantic than living under an authoritarian government where you can only have sex for one night of the year? Finding your true love for life. Time to nut up for Will Gluck's One Night Only, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. Written by Travis Braun and based on his...
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*FANTASIA 2026* Interview with 'A Safe Distance' (2026) Director, Gloria Mercer, Bethany Brown, and Tandia Mercedes
While it didn’t debut at Fantasia Fest (that honor belongs to SXSW this year), A Safe Distance also played at the Montreal-based festival. An eighty-five-minute thriller, A Safe Distance follows Alex (Bethany Brown) as she goes camping with her long-time partner in the forest of Canada. Shortly...
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The Awards Tape: The Invite (2026) Awards Assessment, A24 Campaign Priorities & Fringe Best Picture Nominations Ranking
It's the opening weekend of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but I don't think we can conclusively say it'll be part of this upcoming awards conversation—outside of a potential Best Visual Effects nomination. So instead of focusing on that amid the hundreds of millions of dollars being made by The...
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EP 200: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), SDCC Marvel News, Avengers: Doomsday Heat Check & MCU Trivia
It’s episode 200 of our weekly Monday show, and what better way to celebrate than with the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man film series. It's also National Spider-Man Day which is celebrated annually on August 1st. The date marks the...
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Ladies Night: Women in Sports!
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of She’s The Man by breaking down the film and “women in sports” movies. We also give some of our favorite recs from the genre and look at the progression of sports films over the past two decades. She’s The Man, loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night…
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*FANTASIA 2026* Interview with 'Sunspark' (2026) Director, Danny Bourque
In a barren post-apocalyptic world with no humans, a barter system of sunflowers for scrap parts, and robots, Zap is very lonely. In his scavenging one day, he finds the broken body of another robot. His curiosity gets the better of him, and he takes this robot home, in hopes of reviving it. As…
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The Awards Tape: 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026) Lineup Announcement
The lineup for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival was announced on Thursday, July 23, coming on the heels of the first wave of announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival. That means we're officially entering fall festival season, the multi-week stretch in late August and...
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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 single series, we bounce around the television landscape and talk about the shows we haven't had a chance to cover on the main show, along with the hidden gems…
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EP 199: The Invite (2026), I Want Your Sex (2026), The Career of Olivia Wilde & Guess the Letterboxd Review Game
Christopher Nolan please exit stage left, this episode is for the freaks. It's time to get wild, Olivia Wilde that is! With her third directorial feature, The Invite, in theaters as of last week, and an upcoming leading role in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex set to go into wide release next week…
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Interview with 'Heartstopper Forever' (2026) Editor, Todd Downing
Heartstopper Forever is a new Netflix film that concludes the three-season TV series Heartstopper, which was adapted from Alice Oseman's graphic novels. Set in the UK, the story follows a gay high school romance and the friendships that surround it. We're joined by Todd Downing, editor of the…
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Read Receipts: The Odyssey From Homer To Christopher Nolan (2026)
We read it. We watched it. It’s time for the receipts. For this month’s Read Receipts, we are going on an Odyssey. Or should we say a Pod-yssey? Welcome back to your favorite podcast for readers and watchers alike. If you’re new here, this is Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling...
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