The Rolling Tape
The Rolling Tape podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.
Episodes
211 episodes since 2022
NEWS 029: Venice Festival Recap 2024
With the Venice International Film Festival coming to a close, we recap the films and events of the fest and assess the slate of award winners including the Golden Lion winner.Listen Here:
September 11, 2024
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1:02:11
EP 101: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
The juice is loose! Tim Burton returns to the afterlife with a sequel to his iconic 1988 classic Beetlejuice. After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life ...
September 09, 2024
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Episode 210
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1:24:54
RETROSPECTIVE 009: Tim Burton
Tim Burton's career is a journey through the surreal and the gothic, where the ordinary meets the bizarre in a visually stunning blend of emotion and imagination. Emerging in the mid-1980s, Burton quickly established himself as a director with ...
September 05, 2024
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Episode 209
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1:13:40
Live Commentary: *DIRECTORS CUT* Rebel Moon - Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness
As part of our Birthday week extravaganza, we provide our first-ever live watch-along commentary to the Director's Cut editions of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon franchise. We watch, discuss, and digress all things Zack Snyder and beyond across 6+ ho...
August 29, 2024
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Episode 208
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2:45:22
Live Commentary: *DIRECTORS CUT* Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice of Blood
As part of our Birthday week extravaganza, we provide our first-ever live watch-along commentary to the Director's Cut editions of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon franchise. We watch, discuss, and digress all things Zack Snyder and beyond across 6+ ho...
August 29, 2024
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Episode 207
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3:54:10
Ladies Night 003
This month, in the wake of Gladiator 2 thirst traps, the ladies come back to the studio to break down “girl marketing” and the female gaze when applied to film distribution. They also tackle the micro-trend “older woman-young man” and ...
August 29, 2024
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Episode 206
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1:12:25
Interview with ‘Dìdi’ (2024) Editors, Arielle Zakowski & Christopher Tennel
With a World Premiere at Sundance in January, Sean Wang's Dìdi has now been capturing the hearts of audiences as the film has gone into wide release in theater. In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, the film follow...
August 28, 2024
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Episode 205
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21:12
NEWS 028: TIFF Preview 2024
With three team members from The Rolling Tape going to TIFF in a couple of weeks time, 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 4. ...
August 28, 2024
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Episode 204
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1:16:23
EP 100: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) & The Rolling Tape Anniversary Special
In honor of our 100th main show episode of the podcast, we hosted a bracket on social media asking you all to vote between 32 films selected by our team, with the winner being the selection for this review episode. All of our team members were ...
August 26, 2024
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Episode 203
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1:47:33
NEWS 027: Fall Festival Preview 2024
The fall film festival cycle is gearing up once again with the major festivals announcing their lineup of films that will reveal to us many of the major awards players and flesh out the fall and winter 2024 theater schedule. We break down major...
August 21, 2024
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Episode 202
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1:09:44
EP 099: Alien: Romulus (2024)
With a long line of auteurs lending their hand to the Alien franchise, Fede Alvarez takes a turn with the standalone effort Alien: Romulus. Taking place between the events of Alien and Aliens, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space ...
August 19, 2024
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Episode 201
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2:00:14
Interview with ‘Skincare’ (2024) Director, Austin Peters
In director Austin Peters' debut feature film, famed aesthetician Hope Goldman's skincare business faces sabotage when rival Angel Vergara opens a boutique across the street. Aided by friend Jordan, Hope seeks to uncover who's trying to ruin he...
August 16, 2024
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Episode 200
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13:03
RETROSPECTIVE 008: Alien Franchise
The Alien movie franchise, spanning over four decades, is one of the most iconic and enduring series in science fiction and horror filmmaking history. What began in 1979 with Ridley Scott's Alien has since evolved into a sprawling narrative uni...
August 14, 2024
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Episode 199
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1:36:50
EP 098: Cuckoo (2024)
Originally premiering at Berlin International Film Festival before also showing at SXSW, Tilman Singer’s sophomore feature Cuckoo follows up his 2018 effort Luz. In Hunter Schafer’s first major leading role, 17-year-old Gretch...
August 12, 2024
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Episode 198
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1:42:47
EP 097: Sing Sing (2024)
Originally premiering at TIFF in 2023, Greg Kwedar’s portrait of the titular maximum security prison and the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program that was instituted within its walls is now coming to theaters in wide release. The story follo...
August 07, 2024
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Episode 197
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1:41:27
EP 096: Trap (2024)
M. Night Shyamalan takes on his own eras tour as he continues on the comeback era with Trap, following a father and his teen daughter attending a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event. Brat summer i...
August 05, 2024
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Episode 196
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1:36:58
RETROSPECTIVE 007: M. Night Shyamalan
Born in India and raised outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan has received critical acclaim over the last 2+ decades as a director, writer, and producer. Best known for his films with supernatural plots and horror storyline...
July 31, 2024
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Episode 195
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1:30:55
EP 095: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Infamous and beloved characters, respectively, in their own timelines and universes, Deadpool & Wolverine features its two titular superheroes share the screen for the first time. Thanks to the 2019 merger of Disney and 20th Century Fox, th...
July 29, 2024
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Episode 194
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2:14:37
The Awards Tape: Oscar Predictions 2024 First Draft
Welcome to the launch of The Awards Tape! The Awards Tape is a dedicated episode series of The Rolling Tape podcast for coverage of all things awards season. With festival season just around the corner and conversations starting to heat up abou...
July 24, 2024
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Episode 193
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2:03:34
NEWS 026: 81st Venice International Film Festival Lineup Announcement
Today’s major headline is the announcement of the full lineup for the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival where we can now expect an outpouring of celebrities to hit the red carpet on August 28th until September 7th. We share...
July 23, 2024
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Episode 192
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21:51
EP 094: Twisters (2024) ft. Manning Franks
As a standalone story within the universe of the 1996 film Twister, Lee Isaac Chung brings tornadoes back to the big screen with lega-sequel Twisters which follows a retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist who is persuaded to return to Oklahom...
July 22, 2024
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Episode 189
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1:56:00
Interview with ‘Dandelion’ (2024) Director/Writer Nicole Riegel
Dandelion is currently playing in select theaters from IFC Films and writer/director Nicole Riegel after her feature debut in 2020 with Holler. The film premiered earlier this year at SXSW festival and follows a singer-songwriter in a downward ...
July 19, 2024
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Episode 188
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20:22
RETROSPECTIVE 006: Twister (1996) ft. Brandon King
With the upcoming release of Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters, we revisit the 1996 original Twister directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Cary Elwes. We discuss the significance and legacy of the film while musing on why r...
July 17, 2024
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Episode 187
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1:17:34
EP 093: Longlegs (2024) ft. Larry Fried
Surrounded by one of the most viral marketing campaigns in recent memory, Longlegs directed by Osgood Perkins and distributed by NEON has set the stage to be one of the most terrifying films of the year. Longlegs follows an FBI agent who, in pu...
July 15, 2024
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Episode 186
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2:19:45
NEWS 025: Midyear Review 2024
The Rolling Tape reviews the first half of 2024 revealing each of our team member’s top 5 of the first six months. We look at the trends of the year and choose our superlatives before turning the corner into the ensuing festival and awards seas...
July 10, 2024
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Episode 185
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2:09:31