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For the first time at The Rolling Remote, we are heading into the lands of Westeros with A Night of the Seven Kingdoms , the HBO fantasy drama created by Ira Parker and George R.R. Martin. The series is the third live-action entry in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe, following Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon . It's set roughly 90 years before the events of Game of Thrones...

Victoria Blade wrote/directed, and stars in the indie comedy pilot Vicky Wakes Up premiering at Slamdance Film Festival in 2026. The story follows Vicky, stuck in a dead-end office job, who lives an uninspired existence until she’s confronted by a mystical pop star through vivid dreams and visions. When a mysterious gift arrives, Vicky takes a step to face her fears and discover her true calling....

Today we are eating the rich, unlocking our inheritances, and moving our way up to the top tax bracket with How to Make a Killing written and directed by John Patton Ford and distributed by A24. Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way. The film stars Glen Powell, M...

WATCH THIS EPISODE WITH AD-FREE, EARLY ACCESS ON VIDEO BY SUBSCRIBING TO OUR PATREON . The Awards Tape is growing! With our Awards Editor and local Oscars encyclopedia, Paul Rai , at the helm, our Oscars-centric show is becoming a weekly podcast all year long . Alongside our review on The Rolling Tape for Emerald Fennell's latest film, "Wuthering Heights" , we look back at the histo...

"Wuthering Heights" was the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë in 1847. The latest adaptation is courtesy of Emerald Fennell and Warner Bros., her third feature film as a writer and director. The story, notably in quotations, follows a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship betwee...

WATCH THIS EPISODE WITH AD-FREE, EARLY ACCESS ON VIDEO BY SUBSCRIBING TO OUR PATREON . The Awards Tape is growing! With our Awards Editor and local Oscars encyclopedia, Paul Rai , at the helm, our Oscars-centric show is becoming a weekly podcast all year long . Love is in the air as Valentine's Day is less than a week away and the hotly anticipated steamy romance, “Wuthering Heights” , will b...

WATCH THIS EPISODE WITH AD-FREE, EARLY ACCESS ON VIDEO BY SUBSCRIBING TO OUR PATREON . In a first for The Rolling Remote, our TV podcast series, we are talking about Industry, created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, that follows a group of young people just trying to survive in the world of high finance and investment banking. The series first premiered in 2020 and, over four seasons, has steadily...

In the first edition of our newly formatted Monday episode of The Rolling Tape, we are discussing a new release, similar to what we have always done, while also expanding the conversation to include conversation on related industry topics and segments. Today we’ll discuss Sirât as well as zoom out to NEON as a whole, unpacking the success of their 2025 slate while looking ahead to their upcoming r...

With Nuisance Bear, filmmakers Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman return to Churchill, Manitoba — affectionately known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” — to deepen the inquiry begun in their award-winning short film in 2021. The result is a striking portrait of the fraught coexistence between polar bears and humans, guided by an Inuit narrator whose insights resist simplification.  We a...

Apple TV+’s The Lost Bus is nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Academy Awards. We are joined by Special Effects Coordinator Brandon K. McLaughlin on the film to discuss his work. Starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, this visceral docudrama relives the 2018 Camp Fire that ravaged Paradise, California, following a bus driver and teacher racing to save 22 schoolchildren.  Faci...

Vulture’s Movies Fantasy League is well underway for the 2025-26 awards season and our team has been participating! Back in part one of this podcast mini-series, we discussed how we drafted our teams based on the criteria of box office, critical reception, and awards. The rules for how to play are available on the MFL hub, but their summary is as follows, “You select a roster of exactly eight film...

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival was held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. The festival was the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before relocating to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. The Rolling Tape was in attendance in Park City and today we recap the event with our best of the fest for what we saw on the big screen and virtually.  Follow our team onlin...

Send Help is directed by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, will they make it out alive? The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien. Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Joshua Mbonu Nandit...

Arco was recently nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 98th Academy Awards. We are joined by the film's director, Ugo Bienvenu, to discuss his creative process and collaboration with his animation studio in developing the project. The story follows a girl who witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky in 2075. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is...

After the Oscar nomination announcements for the 98th Academy Awards, we break down the results by analyzing all of the expected nominations we received along with any surprises announced by Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks. We reveal how accurate some of our predictions were before we move into analyzing the final phase of Oscar campaigning leading up to the announcement of the winners on March...

In a round-up review episode while some of our team is at Sundance 2026, we look back to a couple of 2025 releases we've yet to discuss including Joachim Trier's 9-time Oscar nominated 'Sentimental Value' and Mona Fastvold's musical historical biopic, 'The Testament of Ann Lee'. We also shift the conversation to a critique of 'Mercy', to begin discussin...

Oscar Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced live by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman! Here are our live, uncut reactions to the nomination announcements with immediate analysis following the ceremony. Follow our team online: Paul Rai Red Broadwell Ethan Simmie   Resources: Oscar Nominations Have questions? Email info@therollingtape.com Credits: Theme music by Eugene Rocco Ut...

After multiple drafts of way-too-early above the line predictions through the summer, a “state of the awards race” pulse check episode discussing the first round of major precursors, and our specialized prediction episodes that featured in depth discussions on 3-4 categories at a time, we have finally arrived at the conclusion of the nomination phase of award season with the Oscar nominations set...

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It serves as the fourth installment overall in the 28 Days Later film series. As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter the world. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. Subsc...

Mascha Schilinski’s century-spanning German epic is a visual poem about time, memory, and gendered violence that unfolds across four generations of women connected to the same rural farmhouse. The film collapses these timelines by slipping in and out of different eras in German history to reveal the cyclical nature of their transgenerational trauma. Its atmospheric cinematography bleeds these time...

In their first recording of the new year, the ladies drop their top five movies of 2025 and discuss what they’re excited for in 2026. They also briefly revisit ‘Marty Supreme’ to discuss its ending, potential problematic narrative, and how it fits into the 2025 trends of filmmaking, marketing, and star making.  Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening P...

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. The festival is slated to be the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before the festival relocates to Boulder, Colorado in 2027 and in its final Park City edition, The Rolling Tape will be in attendance. Today we’ll be previewing the lineup, what we can expect to...

This is a re-release of Season 2 of our RETRO//RANKED podcast series.  We recorded the episode upon the release of 28 Years Later in 2025, and we are resharing it in honor of Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hitting theaters this weekend.  The 28 franchise is a British post-apocalyptic horror series that began with the groundbreaking film 28 Days Later (2002), directed by Danny B...

After multiple drafts of way-too-early above the line predictions through the summer, and a “state of the awards race” pulse check episode discussing the first round of major precursors, we are finally closing out our specialized prediction episodes that feature 3-4 categories at a time until we’ve covered all categories ahead of nomination morning on January 22. After the Oscar shortlist and a ma...

Watch this episode on video by subscribing to our Patreon. We have a new host in town with Jake Fittipaldi taking the reins of The Rolling Remote, a show that is also going to be evolving in 2026. This is the start of a broader, more expansive version of The Rolling Remote, where we will still be diving deep into the shows we love, but across more series, more genres, and more conversations that d...