The Rolling Tape

After discussing Ryan Coogler’s career through his first four feature films, we review Sinners: trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Initial Thoughts 0:23:56 Spoiler Review...

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 Emmy’s awards season coverage, we’re discussing Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus written and directed by Mike White. The series is a social satire following the exploits of various guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain, who...

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 as follows: a platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event. The film stars D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, and Joseph Quinn...

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 competition titles, for the 78th edition of the festival. The Cannes lineup gives us a glimpse into the pulse of global cinema and kickstarts the next awards season, and as such we unpack the announcements and give our first blind predictions for the pre...

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 Station, Creed, Black Panther, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. After swapping release dates with Mickey 17, Sinners will be in wide release next week and we will discuss a preview of his latest.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platfo...

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 picture theater industry featuring major studios sharing their slate with theater owners for the rest of the year and beyond. We’ll discuss the panels and various announcements from the studios who presented including Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., Amazon, U...

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 are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected, expert crafter. The film stars Jason...

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 together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of January, the theme was "New-Year Noir." Matt Minton and Sara Ciplickas discuss Gilda and Notorious. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platform...

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 tester audiences and the ‘women in male roles’ trend. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Sasha Raquel on Letterboxd , Instagram , and YouTube Neha Jha on...

In the inaugural episode a The Rolling Tape’s newest series, we present The Rolling Remote–a podcast series dedicated to television coverage where we discuss week-to-week television events and will eventually entertain Emmy’s awards season coverage. For our first episode, we discuss season 2 of Severance, the hit Apple TV+ psychological thriller. The show is described as follows, Mark leads a team...

For a bonus review this weekend, we discuss a staff choice selection of The Assessment, where in the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare. The film is Fleur Fortune’s directorial debut and stars Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, and Himesh Patel. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Pod...

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 Elliott and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO. The film stars Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Anthony Carrigan, Richard E. Grant, and Téa Leoni. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All...

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 together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of January, the theme was "New-Year Noir." Landon Defever and Cameron Ritter discuss Brick and One False Move. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening...

After our retrospective discussing Disney live-action remakes, we review Disney’s latest bringing the classic fairytale of Snow White back to the screen. A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen. A live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” The film is directed by Marc Webb and st...

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 continued to bring their animated classics to new audiences through live-action and photorealistic techniques. Although not always warmly received, the films garner significant box office and cultural attention. Snow White is the latest to be receiving...

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 disappeared years ago. Surrounded by his cult of sycophants, as well as a group of fellow journalists, she soon discovers his twisted plans for the gathering. The film stars Ayo Edibiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, and Murray Bartlett.  Listen Her...

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 commentary of the film. A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Eva...

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. Robert Pattinson stars as an "expendable" - a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very...

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 performance as the host to 5-minute 40-second speeches in the finale of a tumultuous awards season.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our guest online: Ethan Simmie on Letterboxd , Instagram , X , The Movie Draft Podcast ,...

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 blending genres and inciting sharp social commentary. From his earlier Korean works such as the mystery procedural of Memories of Murder to the monster spectacle of The Host, all the way through his Best Picture phenomenon in Parasite, we unpack his ful...

Established by filmmakers who wanted to showcase the unfiltered voice of independent artists, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that features emerging artists in a week-long Oscars qualifying festival now held in Los Angeles. Our team had the opportunity to cover the festival and see many of the films hosted in this year’s selection. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Fol...

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 taking a look at Chinese blockbuster, Ne Zha 2. The sequel is described as follows, after the catastrophe, although the souls of Nezha and Aobing were saved, their bodies would soon be shattered. Taiyi Zhenren planned to use the seven-colored lotus to reb...

At Slamdance Film Festival, Red Broadwell interviews writer/director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, of Memories of Love Returned.  On April 24th, 2002, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for the car's repair he stumbled upon a photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950’s up till 2006 whe...

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 conversation before the ceremony on March 2. We are bringing back a pair of guests to discuss the Oscars Model, an algorithmic mathematical model that attempts to predict the Oscars. We will discuss the background behind making the model, its final mat...

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. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. The film stars Theo James,...