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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 we received in this ceremony. One of the last major steps before the Oscars, we now have our SAG winners! Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , T...

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 season, we are at the last hurdle before the ceremony on the evening of March 2. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul...

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 is "New-Year Noir." Red Broadwell and Nandita Joshi discuss After Hours and Double Indemnity. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Liste...

Landon Defever speaks with Stolen Kingdom writer/director Joshua Bailey on his background and connection to the Disney universe and how it brought him to documenting its hidden stories. Stolen Kingdom is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film...

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. Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, finds himself in the middle of an international incident and must discover the motive behind a nefarious global plan. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro &a...

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 resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey. The film stars Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, and Emily Mortime...

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 Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Evan Miller on L...

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 Chris Evans and now helmed by Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson. We discuss the MCU films relevant to the journey of the Captain America figure including the character’s standalone films and the joint Avengers team-up films.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podca...

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 DeBose, and Mustafa Shakir. The film is described as follows: a realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past an...

Sundance is the first major festival of the calendar year featuring the largest collection of independent films in the United States. We’ll be recapping the Park City, Utah 2025 edition with one of our team members who was on the ground and in the cold.   Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X...

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 is "New-Year Noir." Bryan Sudfield and Evan Miller kick off the series discussing The Third Man and Blue Velvet. Listen Here: Spotify Apple...

In their first discussion of 2025, the Ladies speed run through various 2024 awards contenders giving their thoughts on gender at the Oscars, how international films are presented, and why Emilia Perez just doesn’t work. 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 Y...

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 2024 that we did not get a chance to review on the main show, and bringing back the speed run format from 2022 to review each in short 15-20 minute sections. The four films we are covering are A Complete Unknown, A Different Man, Babygirl, and Queer.  List...

In a psychological thriller from director Drew Hancock and the producers of Barbarian, Companion follows a billionaire's death which sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate. The film stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Lukas Gage.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro & Ini...

Alongside the recent release of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, we revisit Christian Gudegast's 2018 action heist thriller. The film follows an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank. Watch along with us as we react and comment. Listen Here: Spotify Ap...

After the Oscar nomination announcements for the 97th Academy Awards, we break down the results by analyzing all of the expected nominations we received along with any surprises and snubs. We reveal how accurate our final predictions were before we move into analyzing the final phase of Oscar campaigning leading up to the announcement of the winners on March 2nd, 2025.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple...

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 nomination announcement ceremony with immediate analysis following the ceremony. Our guests: Eugene Rocco Utley and Courtney Ward Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , TikTok , and Linktree Resources: Oscar N...

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 Universal classic monster franchise. The film is described as follows: a family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. Wolf Man stars Julia Garner,...

Oscar nomination morning has been delayed to January 23, and since our final nomination predictions episode last week, we have received additional insight to the race through BAFTA and PGA nominations as well as some guild announcements. We revise some of our predictions and discuss the implications of the latest precursors.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our t...

Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, we are reviewing Nickel Boys directed by RaMell Ross. Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. The film stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts Al...

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 favorite films, performances, scenes, and all the superlatives in between before unveiling our team’s top film of the year. We then look ahead at 2025 and discuss our most anticipated releases that will be screening and streaming for the next 365 days. L...

With Oscar nomination morning just around the corner on January 23, we break down category by category our final predictions for what will be nominated at the 97th Academy Awards this coming March. We discuss our predictions for everything from Best Makeup & Hairstyling to Best Picture and all of the categories in between providing our full and final analysis for all categories. Listen Here: S...

After winning Best Drama Film at the recent Golden Globes, for our last review before the Oscar nominations we are discussing The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet which premiered last year at the Venice International Film Festival. When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their lives are changed fo...

After winning the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature and being recently shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature for the Academy Awards, Porcelain War is now in limited theatrical release. Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it's easy to make people afraid, it&apos...

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 affect the performance and director races. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul Rai on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Owen...