This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of The Phoenician Scheme (2025) where we discuss trailer reactions to films including Frankenstein, Wicked: For Good, Black Phone 2, and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Subs...

Richard Ladkani continues his work of environmental documentary storytelling by bringing us to the Amazon to share the story of Juma Xipaia and her husband Hugo Loss as they fight for environmental land protection and Indigenous sovereignty. In...

For a bonus review this weekend on a weekend full of new releases and our main review settled on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, we’ve got so many John Wick heads on our team that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to review the franchis...

‘Widow Champion’ takes us to rural Kenya, where Rodah Nafula Wekesa spearheads a courageous movement, rallying fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property. Sara Ciplickas sits down with Director Zippy Kimundu to discuss the trust necessary...

Toby Perl Freilich's Maintenance Artist follows NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career. ...

This is a preview podcast for one of our newest Patreon exclusive podcast series, RETRO/RANKED. In this spinoff of our existing Retrospective series, we’ll be taking a long-form approach to our retrospectives for full franchises and...

Ahead of Mike Flanagan’s latest film The Life of Chuck, we look back through his filmography which predominantly features many entries to the horror genre both in feature film and TV formats. We’ll discuss his early work through Doctor...

After Flow won Best Animated Feature at this year's Academy Awards, Latvian animation offers something new again with Dog of God. The rotoscope animated film is co-directed by siblings Raitis and Lauris Ābele, who sit down wit...

In our second episode of our Pride miniseries, the team discusses the underground movements and larger star-studded productions from the 1970s and 1980s. Transitioning from Classic Hollywood, we breakdown the complexities and opposing strides o...

Premiering at Tribeca, State of Firsts is an intimate documentary that follows Congresswoman Sarah McBride and her historic campaign to become the first out trans person elected to Con...

Esta Isla is a Puerto Rican feature in the US Narrative Competition with its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival 2025. The movie is described as follows: young lovers Bebo and Lola, from different social worlds in Puerto Rico, escape to a re...

Wes Anderson’s latest film is now out in theatrical wide release, The Phoenician Scheme which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival just a few week ago. The movie is described as follows: wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda ...

This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of Bring Her Back (2025) where we discuss Superman's box office projections, what we've been watching recently, and a surprisingly educational debriefing of the Meet the Parents fr...

*DISCLAIMER* Live commentary is not live with the movie due to ad breaks and technical difficulties. The commentary is edited for brevity and clarity.Ahead of Ballerina (2025), our two John Wick-heads, Paul Rai and Evan Miller, ...

To celebrate Pride Month 2025, Sara Ciplickas hosts a special mini-series breaking down the progression of Queer cinema. In this four-part series, the team discusses different time periods, how Queer people are presented, notable figures, and f...

The Philippou brothers are back after their directorial feature debut in 2022, Talk To Me, with a new original horror film Bring Her Back. The film is described as follows: a brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at t...

The ladies are back in the studio to discuss the phenomenon of “fangirling" as part of internet culture in entertainment. We unpack the deconstruction of the male image in contemporary films, internet boyfriends, and the parasocial relationship...

Our immediate live commentary on the Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony including our reaction to Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winning film It Was Just an Accident. See the video of our reactions on Patreon.Subscribe:

Following up another franchise retrospective with Mission Impossible, we now trust Ethan Hunt one last time in our review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI know...

The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of Mar...

With its 8th and (final?) entry coming to theaters this coming weekend with Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning, we look back at the storied action franchise that dates back to 1996. We’ll reflect on the legacy of the franchise and its 7 en...

After our franchise retrospective last week discussing the five previous Final Destination films, we are now reviewing the latest, Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth entry into the franchise. Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, t...

La Pecera premiered at Sundance in 2023 but was recently in limited theatrical release. The film's story is as follows: a cancer diagnosis inspires Noelia to return to her native Puerto Rico and reunite with friends and family who are dealing w...

As a teaser for future conversations you can expect to hear, this is a pre-episode conversation before our review of Thunderbolts* (2025) where we discuss our favorite movie villains, some trailer news, and first-looks at films coming to theate...

After 14 years, the Final Destination franchise is back with its sixth entry coming out in wide release next month, Final Destination: Bloodlines. Ahead of our review, we’re taking a look back through the franchise’s previous entries dating bac...