The Rolling Tape

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...

Our final episode in the category-by-category prediction series brings us to the craft categories with Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. With just two weeks to go before the Oscar nomination announcements, this is our final look before our annual mega predictions episode covering all categories. Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd...

To kick off 2025, we are entering Aardman Animation Studios with a return to the Wallace & Gromit universe in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Top dog Gromit springs into action to save his master when Wallace's high-tech invention goes rogue and he's framed for a series of suspicious crimes. The film is directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham and features voice work b...

We react live to the 82nd Golden Globes for the 2025 ceremony. After our live reaction, we immediately debrief and recap our takeaways for the winners and the implications for the rest of the awards season. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , TikTok , and Linktree Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd...

With the Golden Globes approaching this coming Sunday, we make our final predictions for all film categories before live reacting to the ceremony. Categories: Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Original Song Original Score Screenplay Director Actor in Supporting Role Female Actor in Supporting Role Male Actor (Musical/Comedy) Female Actor (Musical/Comedy) Male Actor (Drama) Female Actor (Drama)...

Nearing the end of our category-by-category prediction series, we are discussing the three feature categories for Animated Feature, International Feature, and Documentary Feature after receiving the AMPAS shortlists last week. Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul Rai on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Adam Patla on Letterb...

As one of our wrap-up conversations of 2024 before we enter the new year, our retrospective this week is celebrating another medium of storytelling. Similar to our horror retrospective for Halloween, we are celebrating the animation of 2024 today recapping our way through the year all the way back from Orion and the Dark to the box office boom of Inside Out 2 to arthouse selections like Flow and M...

With our final review of the year, and following our recent retrospective conversation on the career of Robert Eggers, we succumb to the darkness in his latest work, Nosferatu. In a reimagining of the 1897 novel and 1922 silent film, Nosferatu’s legacy of adaptation is rich and extensive. In the 2024 iteration, Eggers delivers a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrif...

In resuming our category-by-category prediction series, we continue below the line after the AMPAS announcement of their shortlists to predict Best Sound, Original Score, and Original Song. Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul Rai on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd , Bluesky , and X Adam Patla on...

Robert Eggers has carved a distinctive niche in contemporary storytelling particularly in horror, renowned for his meticulous attention to detail and period accuracy of historical and mythological narratives. With a career spanning three feature films, Eggers has already established himself as one of the most visionary directors of his generation. From the gothic dread of The Witch (2015) to the s...

In our last review before the holidays, our team decided to step inside the courtroom for the Max release of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2. While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, a...

For the final get together of the year, the Ladies recap the “Female-led genre” of 2024 returning to some of their previous conversions on ‘The Substance,’ ‘Barbie,’ and other films reviewed this year. They also begin to break down award prospects and give recommendations for the holiday season. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Sara Ciplickas on L...

We take a brief pause on our category-by-category prediction series to assess the current state of the race as a checkpoint after a major first-wave of precursors. We discuss at large the impacts of AFI, NBR, LAFCA, NYFCC, Golden Globes, and Critics Choice Association to assess trends we are seeing from the rise of The Substance to the Best Actress bloodbath. Follow our guest online: Cole Curtiss-...

The final chapter of the Sony Spider-Man Universe has been written with J.C. Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. Following in the footsteps of the Venom series, Morbius, and Madame Web, the sixth and supposedly final SSU movie Kraven's complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the...

As we continue our category-by-category prediction series through all 21 feature awards for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we take our first trek below the line covering Best Cinematography, Editing, and Visual Effects. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul Rai...

We react live to the 82nd Golden Globes Nominations for the 2025 ceremony. After our live reaction, we come back to debrief and recap our takeaways for the nominations for the rest of the awards season. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , TikTok , and Linktree Tate Fowler on Letterboxd and In...

Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut distributed by A24 brings us back to the night before the world was supposed to end. Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight. The film stars Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, and J...

Landon Defever speaks with Adam Elliot, writer/director of Memoir of a Snail , an animated tragicomedy for the ages sweeping attention at this year's festival circuit. Memoir of a Snail is the fictional life story of Grace Pudel, who's haunted by misfortune and loss, yet continues to push forward in search of a brighter future. Elliot discusses the eight year-long journey of crafting the...

Landon Defever speaks with Gints Zilbalodis, the co-writer/director of this year's independent animated sensation Flow . The film centers around a pack of various animals, navigating the challenges of a changing world, caused by a great flood that's displaced them. Zilbalodis discusses his creative choices, being self-taught as an animator, and the collaborative process on his latest fea...