The Rolling Tape

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...

Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei are longtime collaborators who have worked together across three feature films, CAM , How to Blow Up a Pipeline , and now Faces of Death . The film is a remake of the 1978 film, which spawned significant controversy for its grotesque depictions of death scenes, and the lore surrounding whether they were real deaths turned the film into a cult-followed franchise. The...

The 2026 Oscars may have just wrapped up, but with our expanded weekly conversations on The Awards Tape, the award season has already turned the calendar into the next cycle. Soon enough, on April 9, we're going to get the Cannes announcement lineup, which will kickstart the first Oscar rumors, but until then we're discussing potential contenders in a draft style format to keep things fu...

It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we continue our retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria . With the show returning for a new season on April 12th for Season 3, we'll be going back and revisiting each of the two previous seasons leading up to the premiere.  We're continuing our Euphoria retrospective and getting into the second season of the ever-so-contro...

We’re being greedy here today at The Rolling Tape podcast with not just one final girl movie on the docket, but two final girl movies to discuss. The first is T hey Will Kill You , an action comedy horror film directed by Kirill Sokolov, from a script co-written with Alex Litvak. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 27, 2026. To pair with it, we’re also discussing last week’s wide rel...

Join us as we celebrate two years of Ladies Night, reflecting on women's roles in the film industry. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, the ladies at TRT look back at the Oscars, Timotheé Chalamet's evolving persona, and celebrate the women in filmmaking today.  On this episode: Sara Ciplickas Sasha Raquel Kam Ryan Neha Jha Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact....

Welcome to In The Queue , a new show in The Rolling Tape network of podcasts that answers the question “What should I watch this weekend?” Every month, we line up what’s in theaters, what’s headlining our watchlists, and what we recommend adding to yours. From the big screen to streaming, we discuss what we are currently watching and what you might want to add to your queue. So grab your popcorn,...

We're in the weekend of Project Hail Mary as it's opening successfully at the box office as the Lord and Miller directed sci-fi saga has launched to an $80 million domestic gross. It's received an A Cinema score, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 4.4 on Letterboxd, and a 77 Metacritic score. All the signs seem to be pointing towards not just the biggest crowd pleaser of the year, but possib...

It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we are kicking off a brand new retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria . With the show returning for a new season on April 12th for Season 3, we'll be going back and revisiting each of the two previous seasons leading up to the premiere.  Premiering on HBO in 2019, Euphoria was created by filmmaker Sam Levinson and quickly beca...

We’re going to space today with Ryan Gosling and Rocky in the extraterrestrial saga, Project Hail Mary . Project Hail Mary premiered in London on March 9, 2026, and was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on March 20, 2026. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun, and save Earth. An unexpected friendship may be the key. The film i...

The Marvels of Media Festival returns for its fifth year, taking place March 26–28, 2026 at the Museum of the Moving Image. The event continues its mission of celebrating and elevating autistic media-makers through free screenings, exhibitions, panels, and workshops. Founded by Josh Sapan , former CEO of AMC Networks for 25 years, responsible for hit shows including Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Better C...

In our final episode of The Awards Tape for the 2025-26 awards season, we recap the Oscars as the 98th Academy Awards hav wrapped up as of March 15. We at The Rolling Tape began covering this back in April of last year, where we did our pre-Cannes predictions for the year, and it's continued consistently throughout festivals, awards ceremonies, and discourse involving ballet and cats. We reca...

The Pitt is a medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle after the same group collaborate on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez.  Each season of the series follows emergency department staff as th...

March has been a month of horror with last week’s conversation on The Bride! and movie monsters setting the stage for this week to dive into the paranormal with Ian Tuason’s directorial debut, undertone . Undertone premiered at Fantasia Festival on July 27, 2025, and was theatrically released in the US by A24 on March 13, 2026. Today, we are calling all demonic spirits and paranormal skeptics whil...

It's been a whirlwind of a final awards season week as Oscar voting window has closed as of Thursday, March 5. We had online discourse about Timotheé Chalamet and ballet, Jessie Buckley and cats, but the exhaustion and what-if scenarios are coming to an end. To help close out this season, we are doing our FINAL OSCAR PREDICTION winner episode together with the team, where we go through all 24...

Today, we are returning to the chaotic world of HBO's financial drama, Industry , to finish our Season 4 discussion. In our last episode, we covered the first half of the season, episodes 1-5, and now we're picking up with episodes 6-8 where this season's expansion comes to a head from the fallout of Harper's investigation into Tender to the political and financial chaos surrou...

As mentioned in our conversation last week, discussing the origins of Universal’s movie monsters in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein , we were leading into the latest re-adaptation with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! The film pays homage to both the 1935 film and Mary Shelley’s 1817 source text, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.” The Bride! had its world premiere in London on February 26, 2026...

To celebrate Valentine's Day and the theatrical release of "Wuthering Heights", the ladies explore the evolving landscape of romance in media, looking at ‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ We share insights on fan culture, masculinity, and the societal reception of romantic and erotic content. On this episode: Risa Bolash Sara Ciplickas Sasha Raquel Kam Ryan B...

It's been a hot minute since we've done a pulse check in the Awards Race, with the last time we recorded being over a month ago on January 25th. It was our post-Oscar nominations recap with Cole Curtiss from the Oscars Model offering his insight and reactions, but so much has happened since then. The BAFTA Awards ceremony, the Directors Guild, and the Producers Guild of America have awar...

Today we are going back in time to reanimate film history in 1935 with Bride of Frankenstein . Nearly a century later, we’re discussing Universal’s horror film which was the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride was directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. Additionally, it features E...