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Live Commentary: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Watch our live commentary on video by subscribing to our Patreon!We are back with a LIVE COMMENTARY WATCHALONG of a movie that you've been voting for on our Instagram stories over the past couple of weeks. After making it through ...
Interview with 'Black Zombie' (2026) Director, Maya Annik Bedward
Zombies are an iconic feature of horror that have existed for almost a century, the earliest representation appearing in White Zombie (1932). However, how much do we really kno...
The Awards Tape: TIFF Preview 2026
With Telluride wrapping up and Venice getting ready to deliver the Golden Lion, we are now previewing the Toronto International Film Festival. We have five team members who will be in attendance at the 51st edition of TIFF and today we discuss ...
EP 205: Onslaught (2026) & A24 Rotten Tomatoes Mini-Game
Just mere hours after A24 premiered their major festival venture in Primetime at the Venice International Film Festival, and a surprise screening of You Can See Everything at Telluride, we review their c...
Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club Presents 'The Dog Stars' from Peter Heller (2012) to Ridley Scott (2026)
There were dogs. There were stars. There were dog stars. We read them. We watched them. And it’s time for our receipts. So welcome back to Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling Tape where each month we read a book...
The Awards Tape: 78th Primetime Emmy Awards (2026) Final Predictions
The 78th Emmy Awards are just a couple of weeks away, with the main ceremony airing Monday, September 14, and the Creative Arts Emmys taking place September 5 and 6. Half of The Rolling Tape team will be traveling around the globe...
EP 204: The Dog Stars (2026) & Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
Double feature day, The Rolling Tape’s 4-year anniversary, celebrating Dolly Parton, Peter Cullen, and Tim Curry (science fiction double feature anyone?). A lot on the table for this week’s episode as we look back on 4 years and 637 episodes of...
Ladies Night & Women in Film Spotlight: Kelly Reichardt
In our second Women in Film Spotlight for Ladies Night, we delve into the career of Kelly Reichardt spotlighting two of her films: First Cow and The Mastermind. Both films reflect her unique storytelling style of...
The Awards Tape: 2027 Oscar Contenders Draft Final Rosters
See our live Fantasy results here on our website.We're taking a bit of a pause from our ongoing Oscar predictions to revisit the Oscar Contenders Fantasy Draft we ...
EP 203: Speed Run Reviews of Maddie’s Secret, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, and It Ends & Venice, TIFF, and NYFF Previews
Instead of stepping inside the Insidious franchise this weekend with Insidious: Out of the Further, we’re switching it up here today because summer is winding down, and also we make the rules here. Rather than our typical review...
Interview with 'It Ends' (2026) Director, Alex Ullom
It’s been six years since the idea for It Ends entered writer-director Ale...
The Awards Tape: Ten Years of La La Land & The Legacy of the 2017 Oscars
Is it another day of sun? Or is there someone in the crowd on this lovely night, as a city of stars shines bright for those who dare to dream? If that gives you any indication, we're talking about the Oscar-winning musical La La Land
The Rolling Remote: House of the Dragon (S3), Season MVP's & The Future of Westeros
Today, we're heading back to Westeros. After more than two years away, House of the Dragon is finally back for its long-awaited third season.And it's time for the Dance of the Dragons, the war we've been waiting for and t...
EP 202: The End of Oak Street (2026) & Blind Ranking Dinosaur Movies
Before we officially get into the buzz of the fall festival circuit, it’s good to take a step back in time and reflect on bygone eras of planetary history. Today in fact, we’re embracing that by going 200 million years in reverse to the age of ...
In the Queue: August 2026 Recommendations & & Watchlist Shuffles for Rom-Coms
Welcome back 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 reco...
The Awards Tape: Pre-Fall Festival Oscar Predictions 2026-27
In just a few weeks, Venice, Telluride, New York, and Toronto will kick off a new cycle of anticipated awards contenders, with premieres and early reactions that will reshape our already exhaustive Oscar predictions. This is where some of our a...
EP 201: One Night Only (2026) & Ranking Rom-Com Movie Couples
You know what's more romantic than living under an authoritarian government where you can only have sex for one night of the year? Finding your true love for life. Time to nut up for Will Gluck's One Night Only, starring Monica ...
*FANTASIA 2026* Interview with 'A Safe Distance' (2026) Director, Gloria Mercer, Bethany Brown, and Tandia Mercedes
While it didn’t debut at Fantasia Fest (that honor belongs to SXSW this year), A Safe Distance also...
The Awards Tape: The Invite (2026) Awards Assessment, A24 Campaign Priorities & Fringe Best Picture Nominations Ranking
It's the opening weekend of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but I don't think we can conclusively say it'll be part of this upcoming awards conversation—outside of a potential Best Visual Effects nomination. So instead of focusing on...
EP 200: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), SDCC Marvel News, Avengers: Doomsday Heat Check & MCU Trivia
It’s episode 200 of our weekly Monday show, and what better way to celebrate than with the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man film series. It's also National Spider-Man Day which is...
Ladies Night: Women in Sports!
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of She’s The Man by breaking down the film and “women in sports” movies. We also give some of our favorite recs from the genre and look at the progression of sports films over the past two decad...
*FANTASIA 2026* Interview with 'Sunspark' (2026) Director, Danny Bourque
In a barren post-apocalyptic world with no humans, a barter system of sunflowers for scrap parts, and robots, Zap is very lonely. In his scavenging one day, he finds the broken body of another robot. His curiosity gets the better of him, and he...
The Awards Tape: 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026) Lineup Announcement
The lineup for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival was announced on Thursday, July 23, coming on the heels of the first wave of announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival. That means we're officially entering fall...
The Rolling Remote: Channel Surfing for TV & Recommendations for Widow's Bay, Hacks & Beginner Anime
We're going channel surfing for round 2! If you missed our last Channel Surfing episode, instead of spending an hour diving deep into a single series, we bounce around the television landscape and talk about the shows we ha...
EP 199: The Invite (2026), I Want Your Sex (2026), The Career of Olivia Wilde & Guess the Letterboxd Review Game
Christopher Nolan please exit stage left, this episode is for the freaks. It's time to get wild, Olivia Wilde that is! With her third directorial feature, The Invite, in theaters as of last week, and an upco...
