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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 face the father who abandoned her as the last-ditch effort to find a donor kidney for her dying son. W...

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 Wuthering Heights , so if we could handle that, we can make it through Colleen Hoover’s 2018 psychological er...

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 surprised us or validated what we’ve been thinking about them all year. We’ve seen the premieres of Wild Hors...

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 Reckoning (also supposedly not a sequel to The Social Network ).  In Other Mommy , Bela, an 8...

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 behind making the film. Follow our interviewee online: Ace Thor IMDb Glen Steele IMDb Follow our interv...

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 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The Social Network was released on October...

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 the iconic Green Lantern characters from DC Comics. The series stars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, and...

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 weekly reviews and interactive audience polls about each movie. Perhaps nothing for the rest of the month wi...

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 Resident Evil getting us in the fall and horror mood to start the month, we end with a recommendation...

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 multi-hyphenate career.  On this episode: Sara Ciplickas Sasha Raquel Risa Bolash Bobbi Miller Supp...

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 still six days away from the actual anniversary. But we do have an amazing retrospective...

“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 NBC reality television series To Catch a Predator where Robert Pattinson stars as series host Chris Han...

*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 Heumann , Chris Rock's Misty Green , Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky , and many m...

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 audiences might not know, and it’s part of what Agridulce , Frank Pavich’s new documentary, is trying...

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 Hatten, based on the Resident Evil video game franchise. It follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical...

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 biography, “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.” Siân Heder , the Academ...

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 survival.  Nadia Arain sat down with Kozakis at the festival to talk to him about his approach to storytelling...

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 sends them out of their buildings and into the street. Serville Poblete is a Filipino-Canadian screenwrit...

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 the biggest wins and surprises for shows including Widows Bay, The Pitt , and more. We also have an imp...

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 explosive bang last Sunday after its surprise screening of You Can See Everything , the new docu...

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 putting in the work on theatrical releases doubling down with Practical Magic 2 and Hope , your classic doub...

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 cash in that check. We're here to watch the movie. We're here to talk alongside the...

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 understanding of this trope? In Black Zombie , writer and director Maya Annik Bedward explores these questions abo...

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 schedules and priorities for what we want to see and do while in Toronto starting September 10. The lineu...

Just mere hours after A24 premiered their major festival venture in Primetime at the Venice International Film Festival, and a surprise screening of Y ou Can See Everything at Telluride, we review their current theatrical release Onslaught . It’s not our first Adam Wingard joint, following up our April 2024 review of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire . Wingard has escaped the Monsterverse (for now)...