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*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on Paul Thomas Anderson. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. The third season of our Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series is focusing on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson . We continue collaboratively ranking all 10 of his films by discussing Phantom Thread and Inherent Vic...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a segment from our Emmys Recap on The Rolling Remote podcast series. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. The 2025 Emmy season has come to a close after the ceremony last week on September 14, and we close out with a recap of the ceremony for everything from the award winners to 45-second speeches and running money counters. We di...

Sara Ciplickas sits down with Vancouver Actor, Comedian & Filmmaker Panta Mosleh, who recently premiered her most recent directorial effort Pride & Prayer at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Mosleh is also featured in A24's Eternity, which world premiered at TIFF on Sunday, September 7th. In Pride & Prayer, Mosleh embarks on a soul-searching journey to reconcile her queerness wi...

Timmy Lee sits down with American film and TV composer, Tyler Strickland , to talk about the music for his latest documentary, John Candy: I Like Me (2025), which premiered as the opening film for TIFF 50. The movie chronicles the life and career of legendary Canadian comedian and actor, John Candy , using interviews with Candy’s family and friends and never-before-seen archival home footage and a...

Timmy Lee speaks with Japanese director Takahide Hori to discuss his latest stop-motion animated film, Junk World (2025), which had its international premiere at TIFF 50. The interview is conducted in both Japanese and English, with Hori’s assistant translating all of Timmy’s English questions into Japanese and Hori’s Japanese responses into English. The trio discusses Hori’s inspirations when cre...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring the first 30 minutes of our bonus review for Him. To watch the full review on video, subscribe to our Patreon. Him is a sports horror film directed by Justin Tipping, co-written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Tipping, and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. The film stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, and Tim Heidecker. A young...

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is directed by Kogonada and written by Seth Reiss. The film stars Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and is described as follows: two strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding have the chance to relive important moments from their pasts, illuminating the path that led them to the present and gaining the opportunity to change...

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close and we are here to recap our team’s experience at the festival as we had 10 people on the ground at the festival. We’ll cover our overall impressions of the festival, the films that stood out to us the most, and some stats and superlatives.  Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Li...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a segment from our Awards Draft podcast series. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. The Awards Season Draft returns for round 2! After the inaugural episode of the series saw us competitively draft winners across the awards circuit from 2015-16, we now jump ahead to cover the 2022-23 season. Our draft options include Oscar winner...

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film co-produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman). A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. The...

Orphan , the latest from director László Nemes ( Son of Saul , TIFF ’15, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; Sunset , TIFF ’18), takes place amongst the ruins of the violently suppressed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in which thousands of anguished citizens challenged the USSR-backed dictatorship and were met with Soviet tanks and troops. At TIFF this year, Timmy Lee j...

Nandita Joshi is joined by director Zahraa Ghandour about her powerful feature-length documentary debut, Flana , where she opens up about what led her to step back behind the camera after taking a break as an actress, and how the film became a deeply personal exploration of silence, memory, and womanhood in Iraq. From interviewing her own family to crafting haunting visuals with cinematographer Jo...

With Venice and Telluride Festivals wrapped up and TIFF in progress with many of our members in attendance, our team reviews the news and reactions out of Venice and Telluride, including the Golden Lion winner. We also discuss some in-progress reactions from our team at TIFF. Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Pau...

The Conjuring: Last Rites is directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film is the ninth installment in The Conjuring Universe. Based on the true-life investigations of the Smurl haunting, the film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, along with Mia To...

With Venice and Telluride already underway, we’re now discussing the fall festivals specifically through the lens of the Toronto International Film Festival. We have ten team members who will be in attendance at the 50th edition of TIFF and today we discuss an in-depth look at the TIFF lineup and detail our schedules and priorities for what we want to see and do while in Toronto starting September...

Caught Stealing is directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay written by Charlie Huston, and is based on Huston's book of the same name. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bad Bunny, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane. The film is described as follows, burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himsel...

To hear more bonus conversations like this, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1/month for early access and video episodes. Ahead of our Honey Don't! review we discuss: Hamnet, Hedda, Is This Thing On? First Looks KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along Event Box Office Arco, Mastermind, Ballad of a Small Player  Trailers Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts A...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a segment from our TRT After Dark podcast series. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. TRT After Dark returns for Round 2 this month featuring an unstructured and uncensored conversation on the state of Hollywood. We discuss topics ranging from the theatrical success of KPop Demon Hunters and Netflix's wider strategy within a...

Before we review Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing next week, we’re discussing his career up to this point through his 8 eclectic feature films in his filmography that often feature provocative and controversial themes of death, addiction, and extreme ambitions. We’ll unpack the signatures that define his work and of course talk about our expectations for his next film which will star Austin Butl...

This is a preview podcast. To listen to the full show, watch on video, and see the rest of the Stranger Things recap mini-series, subscribe to our Patreon. When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon for Netflix capturing small-town mystery, supernatural horror, and 1980s nostalgia. The series is described as in 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness su...

Honey Don't! is a neo-noir dark comedy detective film directed by Ethan Coen, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tricia Cooke. It is the second in a "lesbian B-movie trilogy" following Coen and Cooke's Drive-Away Dolls (2024). The film is described as follows: a dark comedy about small-town private investigator Honey O'Donahue, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied...

To hear more bonus conversations like this, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1/month for early access and video episodes. Ahead of our review of Highest 2 Lowest we discuss: Safdie's Marty Supreme and The Smashing Machine Trailers It Was Just an Accident Trailer HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ From KPop Demon Hunters Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here...

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on Paul Thomas Anderson. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon. The third season of our Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series is focusing on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson . We continue collaboratively ranking all 10 of his films by discussing There Will Be Blood and The Mas...

The fall film festival cycle is gearing up once again with the major festivals announcing their lineups in recent weeks that will reveal to us many of the major awards players and flesh out the fall and winter 2025 theater schedule. We’ll discuss the lineups for NYFF and TIFF, highlighting some titles that stand out to us ahead of the festivals. Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spo...

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky. It’s the first collaboration between Lee and Washington s...