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Spring Festival Recaps: SIFF, Chicago Critics Film Festival & PFS SpringFest
The regional spring festivals around the country in late April and early May are a great check-in on a bucket of titles ranging from second screenings of Sundance and SXSW premieres from earlier in the year to undistributed titles from the prev...
EP 190: I Love Boosters (2026) & Live Commentary: 79th Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony
Low-class urban bitches it’s time to boost because after its premiere at SXSW on March 12, 2026, NEON has theatrically released Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters on May 22. We’ll review the San Francisco-adjacent anticapita...
The Awards Tape: Television in 2026 & Early Emmy Predictions
As the Cannes Film Festival rages on toward the end with premieres and social reactions flooding our feeds, The Awards Tape is shifting gears for a week to a new area of focus for the show, the Emmys. At the time of this recording, there...
*CANNES 2026* Interview With 'Le Triangle d'or (Golden Triangle)' Director, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz
For her first feature film, Le Triangle d’or, presented in the Special Screenings section at Cannes 2026, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz joins Nandita Joshi live from th...
Interview With 'Saccharine' Director, Natalie Erika James
After her first two features, Relic and Apartment 7A, Natalie Erika James has cemented herself as a regular name to watch within the horror space. James is an Australian filmmaker, and Saccharine ...
*MOUNTAINFILM FESTIVAL* Interview With 'Paper Town' Director, Jeremy Seifert
Mariana Fabian joins director Jeremy Seifert for the Mountainfilm Festival premiere of Paper Town, a film that follows a paper mill that defined Canton, North Carolina, announcing its sudden closure. Filmed in real time, its is ...
RETRO//RANKED: Star Wars (11-12): Solo & The Rise of Skywalker
In a galaxy far, far away...we started our Star Wars journey long ago. Since then, we have encountered the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, theatrical spin-offs, and now, at last, the final episode to cap off our rankings. We rank the 2 m...
*CANNES 2026* Interview With 'Ceniza en la Boca (Ashes)' Actresses, Adriana Paz & Anna Díaz
Ceniza en la Boca had its World Premiere at Cannes 2026 in the Special Screenings section of the festival. The film is directed by Diego Luna and described as follows: Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother i...
EP 189: Obsession, YouTuber To Feature Filmmaker Pipeline & Blind Ranking Cursed Movie Objects
It’s been a horror sensation since it premiered at during Midnight Madness at TIFF in 2025, but Obsession directed by Curry Barker has finally made its way to wide release after Focus Features purchased the film for $15 million....
Interview With 'Euphoria' (Season 3) Editing Team, Nikola Boyanov, Aaron I. Butler, Aleshka Ferrero & Julio C. Perez IV
The hit HBO series Euphoria is currently in full swing for its third season from creator Sam Levinson, and today we take a look behind the scenes with the full editing team who helped bring the show to life in post-production. The group shares ...
RETRO//RANKED: Star Wars (9-10): Rogue One & The Last Jedi
We are continuing with Season 6 of RETRO//RANKED by jumping into two unique entries into the Star Wars universe, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Episode VIII - The Last Jedi. Rogue On...
Live from Cannes: 79th Cannes Film Festival Preview
We are LIVE at the 79th Cannes International Film Festival with our first in-person recording. Danny Jarabek and Nandita Joshi are on the ground in the south of France adorned in couture and black tie for the world's biggest internationa...
The Rolling Remote: Euphoria (S3, Episodes 1-4)
Today on The Rolling Remote, we are talking about the currently airing third season of Euphoria, HBO's phenomenon of a TV series created by Sam Levinson. Over the past few weeks, we've been revisiting seasons one and two ...
EP 188: The Sheep Detectives, The State of Amazon MGM & Guess The Murder Mystery Mini-Game
Critics are calling it quote “the most pleasant surprise of the year” but what are we bleating about today? I won’t pull the wool over your eyes, today we’re discussing Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives. We’ll take a lo...
Summer 2026 Box Office Draft
It’s feeling humid. It’s feeling like summer is very nearly upon us. That of course, means it’s time for us to reconvene for our second annual summer box office draft. With the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 this past weeken...
RETRO//RANKED: Star Wars (7-8): The Clone Wars & The Force Awakens
Happy May the 4th week! Today, in continuing with Season 6 of RETRO//RANKED, we’re launching into the final era of our Star Wars season. We’ve journeyed through the originals and the prequels, and now we’ve reached our final destination ...
The Awards Tape: Meryl Streep Awards Draft
In honor of The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re hosting a special edition Awards Draft centered entirely on the incomparable Meryl Streep. Streep’s legacy is completely singular with a generations spanning career that emphasized her ...
EP 187: The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026), The Career of Anne Hathaway & Tier Ranking Legacy Sequels
The millennial nostalgia is real today as we break out the florals for spring in David Frankel’s return to the world of Runway magazine and high editorial fashion in The Devil Wears Prada 2. We review the film as well as discuss...
*PFS SPRINGFEST 2026* Interview With 'These Are My Friends!' (2026) Director, Aaron Bartuska
Aaron Bartuska is a Drexel graduate, filmmaker, and current high school film teacher. His latest feature, These Are My Friends!, recently played at Philadelphia Film Society's SpringFest, which is especially meaningful for Aaron...
RETRO//RECAP: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
RETRO//RECAP is a spin-off series from RETRO//RANKED where we hit pause on the rankings and rewind the tape to catch you up on everything that’s happened in a franchise or filmography before the next entry hits theaters. Last time...
RETRO//RANKED: Star Wars (5-6): Attack of the Clones & Revenge of the Sith
Apologies everyone, there’s been a slight shift in programming. Hayden Christensen backed out of his guest spot for this episode. He told us he was down to make a guest appearance, but sent a text backing out at the last second saying, "I don’t...
The Awards Tape: Music Biopics at the Academy Awards & Michael Awards Assessment
It's another year and you know what that means, another music biopic. This weekend saw the release of Michael, the latest of the popular trend of famous musician biographies hitting the big screen, this time focused on the early...
The Rolling Remote: Beef (S2) & A24's Dark Comedy Anthology on Netflix
We are finally stepping outside of our usual HBO bubble at The Rolling Remote because today we're heading to Netflix to talk about Beef Season 2. If you're not familiar with Beef, it's a Netflix anthology series created b...
EP 186: Michael, Mother Mary & Blind Ranking Fictional Movie Artists and Bands
Consider it a music festival weekend here on The Rolling Tape podcast because we’re discussing both real and fake pop stars alike with Michael, Lionsgate’s long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua and
RETRO//RANKED: Star Wars (3-4): Return of the Jedi & The Phantom Menace
We are off to the pod races!!! For Season 6, Episode 2 of RETRO//RANKED, we are jumping into hyperspace across the outer rim of the galaxy, and weesa dive into the Sarlac Pitt today...Welcome to another episode of RETRO//RANKED, the Roll...
