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The Smashing Machine is Benny Safdie’s debut solo feature starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, a championship caliber figure in the early days of UFC. The film follows his rise and fall as well as his relationship with then girlfriend Dawn played by Emily Blunt.  Subscribe: The Rolling Tape Patreon Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Cam...

*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. Our third season of the Patreon exclusive RETRO//RANKED series is coming to a close on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson . You could absolutely say ranking his filmography is like one battle after another with much...

As previously discussed in the first two episodes of this summer mini-series, we’re tracking box office for the movies on our radar between the first weekend of May and the end of August, with each team member on the show preparing a list of their predicted top ten box office earners of the summer, along with their predicted total worldwide gross. We checked in halfway through the summer to see ho...

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. Things are getting stranger!! Just as we are set to kick off spooky season in October, we're back to continue our Stranger Things mini-series on The Rolling Remote. This mini-series will follow the series through its newest and final seaso...

One Battle After Another is written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. The story is as follows: when their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.  Sub...

In this special edition episode, we dive into the passionate debate that has fans of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' divided: Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? Our panelists weigh in on the love triangle that has captivated viewers of the hit Amazon series, exploring the complexities of each character and what makes them so compelling. Whether you're rooting for the brooding Conrad or the...

*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...