The Rolling Tape

In the final Awards Tape of the season, we recap the Oscars ceremony debriefing everything from our reactions to this year’s winners to Conan’s performance as the host to 5-minute 40-second speeches in the finale of a tumultuous awards season.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our guest online: Ethan Simmie on Letterboxd , Instagram , X , The Movie Draft Podcast ,...

Before our review of Mickey 17, we’re looking back through the filmography of Bong Joon Ho, a South Korean filmmaker who has defined his career by blending genres and inciting sharp social commentary. From his earlier Korean works such as the mystery procedural of Memories of Murder to the monster spectacle of The Host, all the way through his Best Picture phenomenon in Parasite, we unpack his ful...

Established by filmmakers who wanted to showcase the unfiltered voice of independent artists, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that features emerging artists in a week-long Oscars qualifying festival now held in Los Angeles. Our team had the opportunity to cover the festival and see many of the films hosted in this year’s selection. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Fol...

After shattering global box office records including the highest-grossing animated film of all time and top 10 grossing films of all time, we’re taking a look at Chinese blockbuster, Ne Zha 2. The sequel is described as follows, after the catastrophe, although the souls of Nezha and Aobing were saved, their bodies would soon be shattered. Taiyi Zhenren planned to use the seven-colored lotus to reb...

At Slamdance Film Festival, Red Broadwell interviews writer/director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, of Memories of Love Returned.  On April 24th, 2002, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for the car's repair he stumbled upon a photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950’s up till 2006 whe...

In an appendix to our final Oscar predictions episode, we simply can’t stay away from awards season conversations, and as such, are adding one more conversation before the ceremony on March 2. We are bringing back a pair of guests to discuss the Oscars Model, an algorithmic mathematical model that attempts to predict the Oscars. We will discuss the background behind making the model, its final mat...

Following up last years viral sensation with Longlegs, Osgood Perkins is back with The Monkey, a horror comedy based on a short story by Stephen King. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. The film stars Theo James,...

We react live to the 2025 SAG Awards just hours after our final Oscar predictions episode where many of our predictions were dependent on the results we received in this ceremony. One of the last major steps before the Oscars, we now have our SAG winners! Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , T...

With one week to go before the 97th Academy Awards, cast our final predictions pre-SAG for all 23 categories. After a long and tumultuous awards season, we are at the last hurdle before the ceremony on the evening of March 2. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X , TikTok , and Linktree Paul...

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of January, the theme is "New-Year Noir." Red Broadwell and Nandita Joshi discuss After Hours and Double Indemnity. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Liste...

Landon Defever speaks with Stolen Kingdom writer/director Joshua Bailey on his background and connection to the Disney universe and how it brought him to documenting its hidden stories. Stolen Kingdom is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film...

Captain America: Brave New World marks Sam Wilson’s first solo film as the new Captain America, ushering in a new era for the character and the MCU. Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, finds himself in the middle of an international incident and must discover the motive behind a nefarious global plan. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro &a...

For the third entry into the lovable world of Paddington bear and the Brown family, Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey. The film stars Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, and Emily Mortime...

To celebrate Valentine's Day here at The Rolling Tape, we host a watchalong of a classic rom-com with 13 Going on 30. Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Evan Miller on L...

Before our review of Captain America: Brave New World, we’re looking back through the legacy of the superhero previously as Steve Rogers played by Chris Evans and now helmed by Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson. We discuss the MCU films relevant to the journey of the Captain America figure including the character’s standalone films and the joint Avengers team-up films.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podca...

It’s Valentine’s Day week and love is in the air for Jonathan Eusebio’s martial arts action comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, and Mustafa Shakir. The film is described as follows: a realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past an...

Sundance is the first major festival of the calendar year featuring the largest collection of independent films in the United States. We’ll be recapping the Park City, Utah 2025 edition with one of our team members who was on the ground and in the cold.   Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Bluesky , X...

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of January, the theme is "New-Year Noir." Bryan Sudfield and Evan Miller kick off the series discussing The Third Man and Blue Velvet. Listen Here: Spotify Apple...

In their first discussion of 2025, the Ladies speed run through various 2024 awards contenders giving their thoughts on gender at the Oscars, how international films are presented, and why Emilia Perez just doesn’t work. Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Follow our team online: Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd , Instagram , and X Sasha Raquel on Letterboxd , Instagram , and Y...

This is a special episode because we aren’t just reviewing one movie, we are reviewing four movies. We’ve selected four films that stood out in 2024 that we did not get a chance to review on the main show, and bringing back the speed run format from 2022 to review each in short 15-20 minute sections. The four films we are covering are A Complete Unknown, A Different Man, Babygirl, and Queer.  List...

In a psychological thriller from director Drew Hancock and the producers of Barbarian, Companion follows a billionaire's death which sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate. The film stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Lukas Gage.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple Podcasts All Listening Platforms Chapter Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro & Ini...

Alongside the recent release of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, we revisit Christian Gudegast's 2018 action heist thriller. The film follows an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank. Watch along with us as we react and comment. Listen Here: Spotify Ap...

After the Oscar nomination announcements for the 97th Academy Awards, we break down the results by analyzing all of the expected nominations we received along with any surprises and snubs. We reveal how accurate our final predictions were before we move into analyzing the final phase of Oscar campaigning leading up to the announcement of the winners on March 2nd, 2025.  Listen Here: Spotify Apple...

Oscar Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced live by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott! Here are our live, uncut reactions to the nomination announcement ceremony with immediate analysis following the ceremony. Our guests: Eugene Rocco Utley and Courtney Ward Follow our team online: Danny Jarabek Website , Letterboxd , Instagram , Twitter , TikTok , and Linktree Resources: Oscar N...

To kick off 2025 with our first review of a January release, we’re discussing Wolf Man directed by Leigh Whannell, the newest iteration of the Universal classic monster franchise. The film is described as follows: a family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. Wolf Man stars Julia Garner,...