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Dinosaurs are returning to the big screen in the 7th edition of the Jurassic franchise with Jurassic World: Rebirth. Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. The film is directed by Gareth Edwards with David Koepp returning to write and stars S...

After a chaotic primary discussion of “fangirling” the ladies continue to break down this industry phenomenon, discussing what it means to be a fangirl and which actors are capitalizing on the idea of “for the girls.”  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Kam Ryan on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Neha...

Ahead of our F1 review, we debriefed a pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation featuring The Batman 2 script completion, The Odyssey poster and teaser announcement, and Denis Villeneuve directing the next James Bond movie. Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts 0:17:05 Spoile...

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 world-famous musician, his fixation on getting a selfie with his client embroils the pair into a bizarre and dangerous game. Matthew Allen joins director Ciaran Lyons and star Lorn Macdonald in a conversation about the making of the film which had its...

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 The Last of Us Season 2, we’re taking a broader lens at TV in 2025 and rounding up any other shows that stood out to us as a team. We’ll discuss personal standouts we didn’t cover on this podcast series before diving into Emmy nomination predictions...

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 interweaving a wide array of archival footage, close analysis of the magazine’s most iconic cover stories and contemporary interviews with the women who made Ms. what it is, Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print examines the magazine’s legacy, highlighting its most...

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 as a driver who returns to Formula One racing after a career cut short by injury. It was directed by Joseph Kosinski with a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger. It is based on the Formula One World Championship, created in collaboration with the FIA,...

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 on the potential Venice International Film Festival lineup before the fall festival season starts to kick into full gear in less than a couple of months.  Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms...

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 crafted an electrifying soundscape for Ballerina , elevating its pulse-pounding action and gritty underworld atmosphere. Set during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum , the film follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) as she trains in the Rusk...

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 discuss what we heard and saw through the festival from myself, Sara Ciplickas our Co-Founder and host of Ladies Night and the Pride Mini-Series, and writer Arleigh Rodgers who isn’t here on the podcast but was in Tribeca for the festival including ou...

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 The Oscars and the dramas that entered “high cinema,” as well as the low-budget comedies that came to define CAMP and the Queer pushback to the tragedies still facing them. With only one more episode left, the team prepares to break down contemporary Que...

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 and written by the same creators. A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected...

Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features ahead of our review for The Life of Chuck features the news on Robert Eggers and 'A Christmas Carol, some Pixar announcement, and broader news in the animation industry at-large. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more and see the full episode on video. Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening P...

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 Materialists . The follow-up to Song's critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated debut, Materialists follows a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. The film stars Dakota Johnson, Ch...

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, everyday product to tell a much broader story about American capitalism, politics, advertising, and environmentalism. The description reads: the untold battle behind the ‘90s ‘Got Milk’ campaign leads an investigative romp from the dairy farm to the Whi...

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 The Oscars and the dramas that entered “high cinema,” as well as the low-budget comedies that came to define CAMP and the Queer pushback to the tragedies still facing them. With only one more episode left, the team prepares to break down contemporary Que...

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-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.  Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Introducti...

The Right Track (2025) is a powerful documentary that amplifies the voices of survivors of sextrafficking, revealing their resilience, heartbreak, and courage as they fight for freedom, justice, and a future where exploited individuals are no longer criminalized but protected. Kam Ryan sits down with Director Shareen Anderson and documentary participants Yasmin Vafa and Audra Doody to discuss the...

Richard Ladkani continues his work of environmental documentary storytelling by bringing us to the Amazon to share the story of Juma Xipaia and her husband Hugo Loss as they fight for environmental land protection and Indigenous sovereignty. In our interview, Richard and Juma discuss the approach they discussed for sharing Juma's message and the importance of safety and security for the subje...

This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of The Phoenician Scheme (2025) where we discuss trailer reactions to films including Frankenstein, Wicked: For Good, Black Phone 2, and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more. Read our review: The Phoenician Scheme (Danny Jarabek) Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listenin...

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 so many John Wick heads on our team that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to review the franchise’s first spin-off Ballerina, or formally From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. The film is described as follows: an assassin trained in the traditions of...

Toby Perl Freilich's Maintenance Artist follows NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career. The film is playing in the Documentary Competition at Tribeca and we had the opportunity to discuss the film and development with its subject with the dire...

‘Widow Champion’ takes us to rural Kenya, where Rodah Nafula Wekesa spearheads a courageous movement, rallying fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property. Sara Ciplickas sits down with Director Zippy Kimundu to discuss the trust necessary to complete this documentary and the progress made in these women’s fight against widow inheritance and patriarchal traditions. The film debuted in the US...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on the Jurassic Franchise. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. In this spinoff of our existing Retrospective series, we’ll be taking a long-form approach to our retrospectives for full franchises and filmographies. Every season of RETRO/RANKED will see us discuss every single entr...

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 genre both in feature film and TV formats. We’ll discuss his early work through Doctor Sleep as well as his highly acclaimed series work with The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Midnight Mass. Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Pa...