The Rolling Tape
The Rolling Tape podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.
Episodes
236 episodes
RETROSPECTIVE 013: Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott’s nearly five-decade-long career of filmmaking has produced some of film history’s most iconic stories and characters ranging from Ripley’s relentless Alien-fighting perseverance to Deckard terminating replicants to Maximus enterta...
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Episode 235
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1:05:22
EP 111: Emilia Pérez (2024)
Following a Cannes World Premiere that resulted in two awards for a Jury Prize and Best Actress to the ensemble cast, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez has garnered a divisive response. Now available to stream on Netflix, the film stars Zoe Saldan...
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Episode 234
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2:25:35
EP 110: Heretic (2024)
After a TIFF world premiere, creative duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods bring their brand of horror to wide release. Heretic, distributed by A24, follows two young religious women who are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strang...
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Episode 233
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1:51:14
The Awards Tape: Oscar Predictions 2024 Second Draft
With festival season now behind us and the field of contenders coming into a more clear picture, we follow up on our first draft predictions with a second draft of above-the-line categories including Picture, Director, the Original and Adapted ...
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Episode 232
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2:24:44
EP 109: Anora (2024)
After taking home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and playing 35mm prints in limited release around the country, Sean Baker’s Anora has now hit wide release in theaters. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impu...
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Episode 231
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2:21:39
NEWS 033: Philadelphia Film Festival 2024 Recap ft. Larry Fried
To round out our festival season, we recap the Philadelphia Film Festival with a few contributors from our own team, as well as with a returning guest. We discuss the evolving state of the festival and its jam-packed lineup from the Philadelphi...
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Episode 230
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1:33:42
Halloween Special: Horror in 2024
To celebrate spooky season and all the thrills and chills we’ve witnessed so far this year, we are doing a genre retrospective today covering the spectrum of horror movies released in 2024. Going all the way back to Night Swim, we recap our way...
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Episode 229
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1:37:49
NEWS 032: Chicago International Film Festival 2024 Recap
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Episode 228
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1:19:26
EP 108: Conclave (2024) ft. Ezra Cubero
Edward Berger’s sophomore feature after the critical and awards success of All Quiet on the Western Front brings him inside the confines of the papacy with Conclave. When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretiv...
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Episode 227
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1:54:30
*NewFest 2024* Interview With 'Duino' (2024) Co-Directors, Juan Pablo Di Pace & Andrés Pepe Estrada
Matt Minton sits down to chat with co-directors Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés P. Estrada about their new film “Duino,” which had its New York premiere at NewFest 2024. The romantic, tender film executive produced by Norman Lear follows a decade...
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Episode 226
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30:56
EP 107: Smile 2 (2024)
Parker Finn returns to the world of smiling demons 2 years after the original Smile with Smile 2. About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed ...
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Episode 225
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2:04:00
NEWS 031: NYFF 2024 Recap
The 62nd New York Film Festival has come to a close, and we debrief the lineup and festivities as the major festival season begins to wrap up.Listen Here:
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Episode 224
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1:12:25
EP 106: Saturday Night (2024)
LIVE FROM THE ROLLING TAPE ITS SATURDAY NIGHT! At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first br...
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Episode 223
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1:50:45
RETROSPECTIVE 011: Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman is a Canadian-American filmmaker known for directing films including Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His career has featured frequent collaborations wit...
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Episode 222
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1:47:18
EP 105: Joker: Folie À Deux (2024)
Following the 2019 bombshell origin story that became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion, Todd Phillips returns to the world of the Clown Prince of Crime with the sequel, Joker: Folie À Deux. Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at A...
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Episode 221
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2:09:47
Ladies Night 004
For the 4th edition of Ladies Night this week, we break down ‘The Substance’ for our main discussion continuing our analysis of “the true female experience in film.” We also cover our favorites of 2024, thirst over ‘Gladiator 2,’ and get a visi...
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Episode 220
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1:11:09
EP 104: Megalopolis (2024) ft. Ethan Simmie
A 40-year development for one of the most prolific American film directors, Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million self-financed Megalopolis has finally come to fruition. The story follows the city of New Rome in the main conflict between Cesar Ca...
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Episode 219
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2:18:52
EP 103: The Wild Robot (2024)
The Wild Robot is the latest in the DreamWorks Animation studio catalog. Written and directed by Chris Sanders based on a book series of the same name, the film is also distributed by Universal Pictures. In the film, Roz, voiced by Nyong'o, is ...
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Episode 218
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1:19:23
RETROSPECTIVE 010: DreamWorks Animation Studio
DreamWorks Animation has been a major force in the world of animated storytelling since its inception in 1994. Founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, DreamWorks brought a new vision that has consistently pushed creat...
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Episode 217
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1:30:42
*TIFF 2024* Interview With 'Shook' (2024) Director, Amar Wala
With a World Premiere at TIFF 2024, Amar Wala expands on his short film of the same name from 2018, Shook. After a run-in with his estranged father, aspiring writer Ashish or "Ash" learns a secret that will force him to balance family, love and...
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Episode 217
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16:36
*TIFF 2024* Interview With 'Paying for It' (2024) Director, Sook-Yin Lee
When an introverted cartoonist's girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. Sook-Yin Lee's film is an auto-fictional adaptation of the Graphic Novel ...
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Episode 216
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28:59
*TIFF 2024* Interview With 'Space Cowboy' (2024) Directors, Bryce Leavitt & Marah Strauch
Space Cowboy follows the personal and professional life of Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, who looks back on creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to turn a dreamlike vision into reality. Danny disc...
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Episode 215
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15:10
*TIFF 2024* Interview With 'Freedom Way' (2024) Writer & Executive Producer, Blessing Uzzi
Matt Minton sits down to talk with Blessing Uzzi, the writer and executive producer of the Nigerian film Freedom Way, which is world premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Blessing talks about her inspirat...
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Episode 214
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20:59
EP 102: The Substance (2024)
From director Coralie Fargeat is the biggest sensation of body horror 2024 has to offer. The Substance premiered at Cannes earlier this year before playing Midnight Madness at TIFF. The story follows a fading celebrity who decides to use a blac...
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Episode 213
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1:50:05