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NEWS 040: Best of 2025 First Half & Most Anticipated of Second Half
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the midway point of the year, we evaluate our favorite films that have defined the first six months of 2025 from our personal favorites to the supe...
EP 147: Superman (2025)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Written and directed by James Gunn, Superman is the film of the newly rebranded DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. David Corenswet stars as Cl...
*PATREON PREVIEW* The Odyssey Teaser, The Running Man trailer, and What We've Been Watching
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the pre-episode ahead of our Jurassic World: Rebirth review we discuss The Odyssey teaser, The Running Man trailer, and 'What we've been ...
*PATREON PREVIEW* RETRO/RANKED: Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight & Boogie Nights)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview section for season 3 of our Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series collaboratively ranking entire franchises and filmographies. After...
Summer 2025 Box Office Draft Check-In
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As previously discussed in the first episode of this summer mini-series, we’re tracking box office for the movies on our radar between the first wee...
EP 146: Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dinosaurs are returning to the big screen in the 7th edition of the Jurassic franchise with Jurassic World: Rebirth. Five years post-Jurassic World: D...
*PATREON PREVIEW* The Batman 2 Script, The Odyssey Poster & Denis Villeneuve and Bond
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of our F1 review, we debriefed a pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation featuring The Batman 2 script completion, The Odyssey poster and tea...
Ladies Night 009
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a chaotic primary discussion of “fangirling” the ladies continue to break down this industry phenomenon, discussing what it means to be a fa...
The Rolling Remote: TV in 2025 & Emmy Nomination Predictions
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After our first four episodes of our new Rolling Remote podcast series covering Severance Season 2, The White Lotus Season 3, The Studio Season 1, and...
Interview With 'Tummy Monster' (2025) Director, Ciaran Lyons & Actor, Lorn Macdonald
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our first coverage of a Scottish film, Tummy Monster is described as follows: when a self-centered tattoo artist discovers his latest client is a w...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print' (2025) Directors, Salima Koroma, Alice Gu, Cecilia Aldarondo
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ms. magazine has been a driver of substantial change in the lives of women and how they have been perceived over the past 50+ years. Through interweav...
EP 145: F1 The Movie (2025)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the premier class of motorsport, F1 The Movie follows the international worldwide racing sport. The film is a sports drama starring Brad Pitt...
*PATREON PREVIEW* Zombie Media & Venice International Film Festival Lineup Speculation
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of our 28 Years Later review, the team debates zombie media with the best and worst of zombie movie and TV show protagonists. We also speculate ...
Interview With 'Ballerina' (2025) Supervising Sound Editor, Mark Stoeckinger
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Simmie joins Mark Stoeckinger, a three-time Oscar nominee and key contributor to the John Wick universe as a Supervising Sound Editor, who has c...
NEWS 039: Tribeca 2025 Recap ft. Larry Fried
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tribeca Festival in New York recently wrapped up and we had three members of our team helping to cover some film titles in the diverse lineup. We’ll...
Pride Mini-Series: Queer Television & Modern Cinema (Part Four)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter the 90s and early 2000s the team discusses Queer cinema’s entrance into the mainstream and the films that we grew up with. We discuss Th...
EP 144: 28 Years Later (2025)
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
23 years after Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s genre-breaking dystopian zombie movie comes a direct sequel to that film with 28 Years Later, directed...
*PATREON PREVIEW* Robert Eggers and 'A Christmas Carol', Pixar Announcements & News on Animation
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features ahead of our review for The Life of Chuck features the news on Robert Eggers and 'A Chris...
Bonus Review: Materialists (2025)
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After our main review for the weekend covering Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, we’re pairing that with a bonus review of Celine Song’s Materi...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'The Price of Milk' (2025) Director, Nicholas Bruckman
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the NOW Special Screening series at Tribeca 2025, The Price of Milk is a four-episode mini-series that utilizes the story of a common, eve...
Pride Mini-Series: New Queer Cinema & Moving to Mainstream Hollywood (Part Three)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter the 90s and early 2000s the team discusses Queer cinema’s entrance into the mainstream and the films that we grew up with. We discuss Th...
EP 143: The Life of Chuck (2025)
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year’s TIFF people’s Choice Award winner is now in wide release from NEON, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck: A life-affirming, genre-bendi...
*DC/DOX 2025* Interview With 'The Right Track' (2025) Director, Shareen Anderson & Participants, Yasmin Vafa and Audra Doody
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Right Track (2025) is a powerful documentary that amplifies the voices of survivors of sextrafficking, revealing their resilience, heartbreak, and...
*PATREON PREVIEW* Trailer Reactions to 'Frankenstein', 'Wicked: For Good', 'Black Phone 2', and 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey'
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of The Phoenician Scheme (2025) where we discuss trailer reactions to films including Frankenst...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'YANUNI' (2025) Director, Richard Ladkani & Subject, Juma Xipaia
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Ladkani continues his work of environmental documentary storytelling by bringing us to the Amazon to share the story of Juma Xipaia and her hu...
Bonus Review: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a bonus review this weekend on a weekend full of new releases and our main review settled on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, we’ve got s...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Widow Champion' (2025) Director, Zippy Kimundu
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Widow Champion’ takes us to rural Kenya, where Rodah Nafula Wekesa spearheads a courageous movement, rallying fellow widows to reclaim their righ...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Maintenance Artist' (2025) Director, Toby Perl Freilich
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Perl Freilich's Maintenance Artist follows NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who blends ar...
*PATREON PREVIEW* RETRO/RANKED: Jurassic Park (1-2)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview podcast for one of our newest Patreon exclusive podcast series, RETRO/RANKED. In this spinoff of our existing Retrospective series,...
RETROSPECTIVE 023: Mike Flanagan
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of Mike Flanagan’s latest film The Life of Chuck, we look back through his filmography which predominantly features many entries to the horror...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Dog of God' (2025) Co-Directors, Lauris Abele & Raitis Abele
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Flow won Best Animated Feature at this year's Academy Awards, Latvian animation offers something new again with Dog of God. The rotoscope a...
Pride Mini-Series: Cinema During Pride Movements & The AIDS Epidemic (Part Two)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode of our Pride miniseries, the team discusses the underground movements and larger star-studded productions from the 1970s and 198...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'State of Firsts' (2025) Director Chase Joynt & Producer Jenna Kelly
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Premiering at Tribeca, State of Firsts is an intimate documentary that follows Congresswoman Sarah McBride and her historic campaign to become the fir...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Esta Isla' (2025) Co-Directors, Christian Carretero & Lorraine Jones
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Esta Isla is a Puerto Rican feature in the US Narrative Competition with its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival 2025. The movie is described as fo...
EP 142: The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Anderson’s latest film is now out in theatrical wide release, The Phoenician Scheme which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival jus...
*PATREON PREVIEW* Superman Box Office Projections & Meet the Parents Returns
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of Bring Her Back (2025) where we discuss Superman's box office projections, what we'...
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...