The Rolling Tape

Today on The Rolling Remote , we are talking about the currently airing third season of Euphoria , HBO's phenomenon of a TV series created by Sam Levinson. Over the past few weeks, we've been revisiting seasons one and two of the show (you can listen to our recap episodes), and now we finally get to talk about a new season as it's unfolding in real time after years of delays and rum...

Critics are calling it quote “the most pleasant surprise of the year” but what are we bleating about today? I won’t pull the wool over your eyes, today we’re discussing Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives . We’ll take a look at the studio behind the film, Amazon MGM, and wrap up with this week’s mini-game guessing mystery movies based on Letterboxd reviews. Stay with us. G et your mutton ready we’re...

It’s feeling humid. It’s feeling like summer is very nearly upon us. That of course, means it’s time for us to reconvene for our second annual summer box office draft. With the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 this past weekend, the summer movie season is now in full swing. We are here today to try to predict where the box office will go and just have a fun time breaking down the slate and discu...

Happy May the 4th week! Today, in continuing with Season 6 of RETRO//RANKED , we’re launching into the final era of our Star Wars season. We’ve journeyed through the originals and the prequels, and now we’ve reached our final destination to start the sequels with The Force Awakens , joined by the 2008 theatrically released animated film The Clone Wars as we head closer and closer toward the releas...

In honor of The Devil Wears Prada 2 , we’re hosting a special edition Awards Draft centered entirely on the incomparable Meryl Streep. Streep’s legacy is completely singular with a generations spanning career that emphasized her versatility as an actress going back to 1975. For many of us, Streep is the gold standard for prestige performances, particularly in the kind of mid-budget adult dramas Ho...

The millennial nostalgia is real today as we break out the florals for spring in David Frankel’s return to the world of Runway magazine and high editorial fashion in The Devil Wears Prada 2 . We review the film as well as discuss the career of the film’s iconic lead, Anne Hathaway who is in the midst of a career year.  Gird your loins for the sequel to 2006’s modern classic The Devil Wears Prada w...

Aaron Bartuska is a Drexel graduate, filmmaker, and current high school film teacher. His latest feature, These Are My Friends!, recently played at Philadelphia Film Society's SpringFest, which is especially meaningful for Aaron and the film, as it was shot and produced locally in Philly. The film is a single-night comedy that follows various mid-twenties drifters over the course of one party...

Apologies everyone, there’s been a slight shift in programming. Hayden Christensen backed out of his guest spot for this episode. He told us he was down to make a guest appearance, but sent a text backing out at the last second saying, "I don’t like podcasts. They’re long and rough and irritating, and they get everywhere." Oh well, maybe next time. Welcome to another episode of RETRO//RA...

RETRO//RECAP is a spin-off series from RETRO//RANKED where we hit pause on the rankings and rewind the tape to catch you up on everything that’s happened in a franchise or filmography before the next entry hits theaters. Last time, we dove into the Scream franchise, but today we’re trading in the knives for Dolce & Gabbana in the 2006 workplace comedy classic The Devil Wears Prada ahead of the...

It's another year and you know what that means, another music biopic. This weekend saw the release of Michael , the latest of the popular trend of famous musician biographies hitting the big screen, this time focused on the early life and 80s peak of pop star Michael Jackson. The first thought for many Oscar pundits' brains was, is Michael an awards contender? Does it matter if critics d...

We are finally stepping outside of our usual HBO bubble at The Rolling Remote because today we're heading to Netflix to talk about Beef Season 2. If you're not familiar with Beef, it's a Netflix anthology series created by Lee Sung Jin. At its core, it's about conflict, something usually small, impulsive, almost meaningless, that spirals into something way bigger than it should...

Consider it a music festival weekend here on The Rolling Tape podcast because we’re discussing both real and fake pop stars alike with Michael , Lionsgate’s long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua and Mother Mary , A24’s deconstruction of its titular fictional music icon directed by David Lowery. Michael follows the life of the American singer Michael Jackson, covering his in...

We are off to the pod races!!! For Season 6, Episode 2 of RETRO//RANKED, we are jumping into hyperspace across the outer rim of the galaxy, and weesa dive into the Sarlac Pitt today... Welcome to another episode of RETRO//RANKED, the Rolling Tape podcast series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest...

The Cannes Film Festival lineup is officially here as we announced last week, so while it’s a quieter stretch for awards news, we’re leaning into the chaos in the best way possible with ACTING PREDICTIONS . After our recent Vulture-style 2027 Oscar Contenders draft, our Awards Editor, Paul Rai, takes things a step further by predicting all four acting categories for the 2027 Oscars completely blin...

The Rolling Tape attended CinemaCon this year! Our very own Kam Ryan was at the expo in Las Vegas participating in events, activations, and panels in the annual trade show for theater owners. CinemaCon took place in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas this past week. More than just an episode of The Studio, it’s one of the core events of the film industry’s annual news cycle and the world’s largest gatheri...

We are wrapping up Season 2 of The Pitt !! Spoilers ahead for Episodes 11-15 (including the season finale...). Noah Wyle's hit HBO medical drama has quietly become everybody’s favorite show, and every time we come back to it, it’s somehow more chaotic, more stressful, and honestly just more fun to talk about. We covered the first half of the season earlier, so today we’re diving into Episodes...

In a reimagining of The Mummy franchise that dates back to the Universal Classic Monster series of the 1930’s. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is written and directed by, you guessed it, Lee Cronin, known most recently for Evil Dead Rise in 2023.  In addition to reviewing the film, we contextualize the greater Mummy franchise with where it has been and where it’s going, as well as discuss Blumhouse, the st...

Pete Ohs works as a director, producer, writer, editor, and cinematographer. He has produced and directed five feature films in the past five years. In 2025, he was at Sundance with OBEX , a fantasy adventure feature he produced, co-wrote and shot. This was followed by The True Beauty of Being Bitten By a Tick , a genre-bending horror satire he directed, co-wrote and shot. Here, Pete joins us to d...

A long time ago on a podcast far far away… Welcome to a brand new season of RETRO//RANKED , The Rolling Tape seasonal series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. Today, we lift off with Season 6 to the Star Wars galaxy. Over the course of the next several episodes, we’ll be covering e...

The Cannes Film Festival , one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is just a month away, running May 12–24 . This past Thursday, Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch announced the official selections, including In Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard , and more. For those following awards season, Cannes has increasingly become an unofficial k...

WAHOO!!! We’re off to the outer galaxy, not alongside the Artemis II astronauts but rather with two Italian plumbers in T he Super Mario Galaxy Movie . Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel, it is the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023, which we previously reviewed on the podcast in Episode 034 . Mario, Luigi, and their friends adventure into outer...

With the release of A24's The Drama , we thought it would be a great time to take a moment to talk about A24 as a studio. When it comes to independent films and Oscar-winning successes, no indie film studio has exploded in popularity and name recognition to the same degree as A24, winning Best Picture twice ( Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All at Once ) in its 14-year existence. For some...

With our TV host at The Rolling Remote, Jake Fittipaldi, we are trying something a little bit new here called "channel surfing" as we peruse through what we're collectively watching across the TV landscape.  There’s just way too much TV right now for us to cover everything in full episodes, so this is our way of opening things up a bit. Instead of one show, we’re bouncing around. Ta...

Save the date because it’s the event of the year, celebrating the marriage of Charlie Thompson and Emma Harwood in The Drama written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli.  A24’s totally romantic and completely comedic rom-com, The Drama, which premiered on March 17, 2026 at DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles, was released in the United States by A24 on April 3, 2026. The film stars Zendaya and Robert...

Every month, we read a book that has been adapted for the screen… then we share our receipts. What worked? What didn’t? Did we enjoy the book or the movie more? Our host, Kasey Dunifer, is a cinephile and avid reader. She loves exploring how these two art forms intersect to create even richer worlds. So if you like books and movies, you’re in the right place. Welcome to the club. This month we rea...