The Rolling Tape

Live Commentary: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

*DISCLAIMER* Live commentary is not live with the movie due to ad breaks and technical difficulties. The commentary is edited for brevity and clarity....

Pride Mini-Series: Early Cinema & LGBTQ in Classic Hollywood (Part One)

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate Pride Month 2025, Sara Ciplickas hosts a special mini-series breaking down the progression of Queer cinema. In this four-part series, the...

EP 141: Bring Her Back (2025)

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Philippou brothers are back after their directorial feature debut in 2022, Talk To Me, with a new original horror film Bring Her Back. The film is...

Ladies Night 008

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The ladies are back in the studio to discuss the phenomenon of “fangirling" as part of internet culture in entertainment. We unpack the deconst...

Live Commentary: 78th Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony (2025)

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our immediate live commentary on the Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony including our reaction to Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winning film I...

EP 140: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following up another franchise retrospective with Mission Impossible, we now trust Ethan Hunt one last time in our review of Mission: Impossible - The...

The Rolling Roulette: Red Broadwell & Evan Miller (March Madness)

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired tog...

RETROSPECTIVE 022: Mission Impossible Franchise

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With its 8th and (final?) entry coming to theaters this coming weekend with Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning, we look back at the storied act...

EP 139: Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) ft. Derrick Murray

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After our franchise retrospective last week discussing the five previous Final Destination films, we are now reviewing the latest, Final Destination: ...

Interview With 'La Pecera (The Fishbowl)' (2023) Writer/Director, Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

La Pecera premiered at Sundance in 2023 but was recently in limited theatrical release. The film's story is as follows: a cancer diagnosis inspir...

*PATREON PREVIEW* Thunderbolts* Review Behind-the-Scenes & Favorite Movie Villains

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a teaser for future conversations you can expect to hear, this is a pre-episode conversation before our review of Thunderbolts* (2025) where we dis...

RETROSPECTIVE 021: Final Destination Franchise

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After 14 years, the Final Destination franchise is back with its sixth entry coming out in wide release next month, Final Destination: Bloodlines. Ahe...

EP 138: PFS SpringFest, Chicago Critics Film Festival & Friendship (2025)

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For our main show, we’re recapping two festivals covered by TRT staff: Philadelphia Film Society’s SpringFest and the Chicago Critics Film Festiva...

Summer 2025 Box Office Draft

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the summer movie season kicking off this weekend with Marvel's latest, Thunderbolts*, we’re taking a look at what's ahead for the sum...

EP 137: Thunderbolts* (2025)

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kicking off the summer movie season, there’s a new Marvel out! Thunderbolts* is described as follows: after finding themselves ensnared in a death t...

The Awards Tape: Way-Too-Early Oscar’s Predictions ft. Matt Neglia

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Almost 2 months removed from the 97th Academy Awards, we’re taking a way-too-early first glance at the slate of potential contenders for the year ah...

EP 136: The Accountant 2 (2025)

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a sequel to Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action thriller, The Accountant is back for tax season 2025 with The Accountant 2. Christian Wolff applies hi...

Interview With 'Sacramento' (2025) Editor, Max Goldblatt

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sacramento directed by Michael Angarano follows an energetic and free-spirited young man convinces his long-time friend, who's settled into domes...

Live Commentary: The Accountant (2016)

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Heading into a review of the upcoming The Accountant 2, our team files their taxes with a live commentary of The Accountant, the 2016 action crime dra...

EP 135: Sinners (2025)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After discussing Ryan Coogler’s career through his first four feature films, we review Sinners: trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin br...

The Rolling Remote: White Lotus (S3)

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of The Rolling Remote, a new podcast series dedicated to television coverage where we discuss week-to-week television events and...

EP 134: Warfare (2025)

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Almost exactly a year since the release of Civil War, Alex Garland returns with A24 to co-direct Warfare alongside Ray Mendoza. Warfare is described a...

NEWS 038: 78th Cannes Film Festival Lineup Announcement

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the first step into a new season of potential award contenders, the Cannes Film Festival announced a partial lineup, with a majority of its in comp...

RETROSPECTIVE 020: Ryan Coogler

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before our review of Sinners, we take a look back through the small but mighty career of Ryan Coogler through his four feature films, Fruitvale Statio...

NEWS 037: Cinema Con 2025

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This past week we had one of the biggest events of the film industry’s news cycle in Cinema Con, the world’s largest gathering for the motion pict...

EP 133: A Minecraft Movie (2025)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For our main review this week, we are covering the adaptation based on the world famous 2011 sandbox game Minecraft, A Minecraft Movie. Four misfits a...

The Rolling Roulette: Matt Minton & Sara Ciplickas (New Year Noir)

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired tog...

Ladies Night 007

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the Ladies celebrate one year of the series and Women’s History Month. The finish up their Oscars 2025 discussion and begin new debates on...

The Rolling Remote: Severance (S2)

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the inaugural episode a The Rolling Tape’s newest series, we present The Rolling Remote–a podcast series dedicated to television coverage where...

EP 132: The Assessment (2025)

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For a bonus review this weekend, we discuss a staff choice selection of The Assessment, where in the near future where parenthood is strictly controll...

EP 131: Death of a Unicorn (2025)

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re reviewing A24’s latest, Death of a Unicorn directed by Alex Scharfman. Premiering earlier this year at SXSW, father-Daughter duo E...

The Rolling Roulette: Landon Defever & Cameron Ritter (New Year Noir)

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired tog...

EP 130: Snow White (2025)

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After our retrospective discussing Disney live-action remakes, we review Disney’s latest bringing the classic fairytale of Snow White back to the sc...

RETROSPECTIVE 019: Disney Live-Action Remakes

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before our review of Snow White, we look back through the live-action remakes of Disney classics. From Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, Disney has co...

EP 129: Opus (2025)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a weekend jam-packed with new releases, our team selected Opus directed by Mark Anthony Green. A writer travels to the compound of a pop icon who d...

Live Commentary: Okja (2017)

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alongside our review of Bong Joon Ho's latest film, Mickey 17, we take a look back to his last English-language film, Okja, and discuss a live co...

EP 128: Mickey 17 (2025)

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Bong Joon-ho’s first film since the Best Picture-winning Parasite, he returns to science fiction by adapting the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. ...

The Awards Tape: Oscars Recap 2025 ft. Ethan Simmie

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the final Awards Tape of the season, we recap the Oscars ceremony debriefing everything from our reactions to this year’s winners to Conan’s pe...

NEWS 036: Slamdance 2025 Recap

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Established by filmmakers who wanted to showcase the unfiltered voice of independent artists, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that features emergin...

RETROSPECTIVE 018: Bong Joon-Ho

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before our review of Mickey 17, we’re looking back through the filmography of Bong Joon Ho, a South Korean filmmaker who has defined his career by b...

EP 127: Ne Zha 2 ft. Larry Fried

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After shattering global box office records including the highest-grossing animated film of all time and top 10 grossing films of all time, we’re tak...

*SLAMDANCE 2025* Interview With 'Memories of Love Returned' (2025) Writer/Director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Slamdance Film Festival, Red Broadwell interviews writer/director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, of Memories of Love Returned. On April 24th, 2002, Ntar...

The Awards Tape: Oscars Model ft. Cole Curtiss-Fuentes & Mitchell Curtiss

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an appendix to our final Oscar predictions episode, we simply can’t stay away from awards season conversations, and as such, are adding one more ...

EP 126: The Monkey (2025)

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following up last years viral sensation with Longlegs, Osgood Perkins is back with The Monkey, a horror comedy based on a short story by Stephen King....

Live Commentary: 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards (2025)

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We react live to the 2025 SAG Awards just hours after our final Oscar predictions episode where many of our predictions were dependent on the results ...

The Awards Tape: Final Oscar Predictions 2025

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With one week to go before the 97th Academy Awards, cast our final predictions pre-SAG for all 23 categories. After a long and tumultuous awards seaso...

The Rolling Roulette: Red Broadwell & Nandita Joshi (New Year Noir)

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired tog...

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

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

EP 125: Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Captain America: Brave New World marks Sam Wilson’s first solo film as the new Captain America, ushering in a new era for the character and the MCU....

EP 124: Paddington in Peru (2025) ft. Jonathan Fujii

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the third entry into the lovable world of Paddington bear and the Brown family, Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now...

Live Commentary: 13 Going on 30 (2004)

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate Valentine's Day here at The Rolling Tape, we host a watchalong of a classic rom-com with 13 Going on 30. Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna ...

RETROSPECTIVE 017: Captain America & The Avengers

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before our review of Captain America: Brave New World, we’re looking back through the legacy of the superhero previously as Steve Rogers played by C...

EP 123: Love Hurts (2025)

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Valentine’s Day week and love is in the air for Jonathan Eusebio’s martial arts action comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBos...

The Rolling Roulette: Bryan Sudfield & Evan Miller (New Year Noir)

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired tog...

NEWS 035: Sundance 2025 Recap

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sundance is the first major festival of the calendar year featuring the largest collection of independent films in the United States. We’ll be recap...

Ladies Night 006

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In their first discussion of 2025, the Ladies speed run through various 2024 awards contenders giving their thoughts on gender at the Oscars, how inte...

Speed Run Reviews of A Complete Unknown (2024), A Different Man (2024), Babygirl (2024) & Queer (2024)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special episode because we aren’t just reviewing one movie, we are reviewing four movies. We’ve selected four films that stood out in 20...

EP 122: Companion (2025)

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a psychological thriller from director Drew Hancock and the producers of Barbarian, Companion follows a billionaire's death which sets off a c...

Live Commentary: Den of Thieves (2018)

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alongside the recent release of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, we revisit Christian Gudegast's 2018 action heist thriller. The film follows an elite ...

The Awards Tape: Oscar Nomination Recap 2025

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After the Oscar nomination announcements for the 97th Academy Awards, we break down the results by analyzing all of the expected nominations we receiv...

Live Commentary: Oscar Nominations Live Reactions 2025

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced live by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott! Here are our live, uncut reactions to the nom...

EP 121: Wolf Man (2025)

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To kick off 2025 with our first review of a January release, we’re discussing Wolf Man directed by Leigh Whannell, the newest iteration of the Unive...

The Awards Tape: BAFTA, PGA & Revised Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar nomination morning has been delayed to January 23, and since our final nomination predictions episode last week, we have received additional ins...

EP 120: Nickel Boys (2024)

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, we are reviewing Nickel Boys directed by RaMell Ross. Nickel Boys chr...

Best of 2024 Recap & Most Anticipated of 2025

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With 2024 and the second full calendar year of The Rolling Tape in the books, we celebrate the year’s best moments in cinema by talking about our fa...

The Awards Tape: Final Oscar Nomination Predictions 2025

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Oscar nomination morning just around the corner on January 23, we break down category by category our final predictions for what will be nominate...

EP 119: The Brutalist (2024)

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After winning Best Drama Film at the recent Golden Globes, for our last review before the Oscar nominations we are discussing The Brutalist directed b...

Interview With 'Porcelain War' (2024) Co-Directors, Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After winning the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature and being recently shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature for the Academy Awards, Porcela...

NEWS 034: SAG & DGA Nominations

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On a day filled to the brim with awards season headlines, we debrief the nominations from two of the most impactful guilds, SAG and DGA, and how they ...

The Awards Tape: Best Costume Design, Production Design & Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar Predictions

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our final episode in the category-by-category prediction series brings us to the craft categories with Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, an...

EP 118: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2025)

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To kick off 2025, we are entering Aardman Animation Studios with a return to the Wallace & Gromit universe in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most...

Live Commentary: 82nd Golden Globes (2025)

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We react live to the 82nd Golden Globes for the 2025 ceremony. After our live reaction, we immediately debrief and recap our takeaways for the winners...

The Awards Tape: 82nd Golden Globes (2025) Final Predictions

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the Golden Globes approaching this coming Sunday, we make our final predictions for all film categories before live reacting to the ceremony. Cat...

The Awards Tape: Best Animated Feature, International Feature & Documentary Feature

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nearing the end of our category-by-category prediction series, we are discussing the three feature categories for Animated Feature, International Feat...

RETROSPECTIVE 015: Animation in 2024

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As one of our wrap-up conversations of 2024 before we enter the new year, our retrospective this week is celebrating another medium of storytelling. S...

EP 117: Nosferatu (2024) ft. Kenzie Vanunu

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With our final review of the year, and following our recent retrospective conversation on the career of Robert Eggers, we succumb to the darkness in h...

The Awards Tape: Best Sound, Original Score & Original Song Oscar Predictions

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In resuming our category-by-category prediction series, we continue below the line after the AMPAS announcement of their shortlists to predict Best So...

RETROSPECTIVE 014: Robert Eggers

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Eggers has carved a distinctive niche in contemporary storytelling particularly in horror, renowned for his meticulous attention to detail and ...

EP 116: Juror #2 (2024)

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our last review before the holidays, our team decided to step inside the courtroom for the Max release of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2. While servin...

Ladies Night 005

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the final get together of the year, the Ladies recap the “Female-led genre” of 2024 returning to some of their previous conversions on ‘The ...

The Awards Tape: State of the Awards Race & Precursor Recaps ft. Cole Curtiss-Fuentes

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We take a brief pause on our category-by-category prediction series to assess the current state of the race as a checkpoint after a major first-wave o...

EP 115: Kraven the Hunter (2024)

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The final chapter of the Sony Spider-Man Universe has been written with J.C. Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. Following in the footsteps of the Venom se...

The Awards Tape: Best Cinematography, Film Editing and Visual Effects Oscar Predictions

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we continue our category-by-category prediction series through all 21 feature awards for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we take our first trek b...

Live Commentary: 82nd Golden Globes (2025) Nominations

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We react live to the 82nd Golden Globes Nominations for the 2025 ceremony. After our live reaction, we come back to debrief and recap our takeaways fo...

EP 114: Y2K (2024)

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut distributed by A24 brings us back to the night before the world was supposed to end. Two high school nobodies make t...

Interview With 'Flow' (2024) Co-Writer/Director, Gints Zilbalodis

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Landon Defever speaks with Gints Zilbalodis, the co-writer/director of this year's independent animated sensation Flow. The film centers around a...

Interview With 'Memoir of a Snail' (2024) Writer/Director, Adam Elliot

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Landon Defever speaks with Adam Elliot, writer/director of Memoir of a Snail, an animated tragicomedy for the ages sweeping attention at this year&apo...

The Awards Tape: Best Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor & Supporting Actress Oscar Predictions

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In continuing forward on our category-by-category prediction series through all 21 feature awards for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we move into t...

EP 113: A Real Pain (2024) ft. Larry Fried

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Premiering all the way back at Sundance earlier this year, Jesse Eisenberg’s sophomore feature A Real Pain is now in wide release with Searchlight P...

The Awards Tape: Best Director, Original Screenplay & Adapted Screenplay Oscar Predictions

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we kicked off our category-by-category series through all 21 feature awards for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards. After our Best Picture con...

EP 112: Wicked (2024) & Gladiator II (2024)

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With this two-part mega episode, we’re covering both halves of the Glicked weekend for the Rome to the Oz, the swords clanging to the wands waving, ...

The Awards Tape: Best Picture Oscar Predictions

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of our second draft above-the-line predictions, we are now kicking off our category-by-category series through all 21 awards for the rest ...

RETROSPECTIVE 013: Ridley Scott

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ridley Scott’s nearly five-decade-long career of filmmaking has produced some of film history’s most iconic stories and characters ranging from Ri...

EP 111: Emilia Pérez (2024)

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following a Cannes World Premiere that resulted in two awards for a Jury Prize and Best Actress to the ensemble cast, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pére...

EP 110: Heretic (2024)

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a TIFF world premiere, creative duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods bring their brand of horror to wide release. Heretic, distributed by A24, follows...

The Awards Tape: Oscar Predictions 2024 Second Draft

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 se...

EP 109: Anora (2024)

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

NEWS 033: Philadelphia Film Festival 2024 Recap ft. Larry Fried

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Halloween Special: Horror in 2024

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 sp...

NEWS 032: Chicago International Film Festival 2024 Recap

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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