The Rolling Tape

For our main show, we’re recapping two festivals covered by TRT staff: Philadelphia Film Society’s SpringFest and the Chicago Critics Film Festival alongside reviewing one film that appeared at both. We’ll discuss the films seen at each by Danny Jarabek and Adam Patla, respectively, and share our thoughts on the limited release of Friendship, directed by Andrew DeYoung and starring Tim Robinson, P...

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 summer schedule and also adding a bit of competitive spirit to the mix. We’ll discuss the movies on our radar between the first weekend of May and the end of August, but also each team member on the show has prepared a list of their predicted top ten box...

Kicking off the summer movie season, there’s a new Marvel out! Thunderbolts* is described as follows: after finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Directed by Jake Schreier, the film stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullma...

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 ahead. We’ll evaluate films that could be priorities later in the year for major studios, the Cannes lineup as the first major festival in just a few titles, wild card independent titles that may still be looking for distribution, and anything in between...

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 his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief's murder. The film stars Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J.K. Simmons, and Daniella Pineda. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listen...

Sacramento directed by Michael Angarano follows an energetic and free-spirited young man convinces his long-time friend, who's settled into domestic life, to go on an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento. We interview the editor and close collaborator to Angarano, Max Goldblatt on the collaboration process for developing and editing the film. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts...

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 drama. As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Evan Miller on Letter...

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...