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Today, we are returning to the chaotic world of HBO's financial drama, Industry, to finish our Season 4 discussion. In our last episode, we covered the first half of the season, episodes 1-5, and now we're picking up with episodes 6-8 where this season's expansion comes to a head from the fallout of Harper's investigation into Tender to the political and financial chaos surrounding everything Henry, Whitney, and Yasmin are up to, and of course, the shifting relationships between some of the show's core characters. 

These episodes push the story further into corporate espionage, political influence, a...

As mentioned in our conversation last week, discussing the origins of Universal’s movie monsters in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, we were leading into the latest re-adaptation with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! The film pays homage to both the 1935 film and Mary Shelley’s 1817 source text, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.” The Bride! had its world premiere in London on February 26, 2026 and was released in the US by Warner Bros. on March 6. 

We discuss the film where in 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to...

To celebrate Valentine's Day and the theatrical release of "Wuthering Heights", the ladies explore the evolving landscape of romance in media, looking at ‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ We share insights on fan culture, masculinity, and the societal reception of romantic and erotic content.

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It's been a hot minute since we've done a pulse check in the Awards Race, with the last time we recorded being over a month ago on January 25th. It was our post-Oscar nominations recap with Cole Curtiss from the Oscars Model offering his insight and reactions, but so much has happened since then. The BAFTA Awards ceremony, the Directors Guild, and the Producers Guild of America have awarded their respective winners. 

We also reacted live to The Actor Awards (SAG), and at the time of publication, we're 11 days away from the 98th Academy Awards. We recap e...

Today we are going back in time to reanimate film history in 1935 with Bride of Frankenstein. Nearly a century later, we’re discussing Universal’s horror film which was the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride was directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. Additionally, it features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride, Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius, and Oliver Peters Heggie as the blind hermit. We’ll also preview what’s to come in horro...

We react live to the 2026 Actor Awards (formerly known as SAG Awards) as they were streamed on Netflix with host Kristin Bell. Just hours beforehand, we recorded a "State of the Race" episode for The Awards Tape with prediction scenarios for all possible outcomes at SAG. We briefly reassess our predictions at the end of the show. One of the last major steps before the Oscars, we now have our SAG winners!

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Danny Jarabek
Gabe Lillianthal
Jacob Diedenhofer
Kam Ryan
Owen Wilczek
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It’s officially time for Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling Tape! Every month, we will read a book that has been adapted for the screen… then we’ll share our receipts: What worked? What didn’t? Did we enjoy the adaptation more? Or the source material? Lots to unpack, and lots of movies to explore, as adaptations become more and more popular on the big screen.

Our Read Receipts host is Kasey Dunifer, an avid reader, chronic watcher, and lover of comparing the two art forms. So if you like books, or you like...

Welcome to RETRO//RECAP, the spin-off of 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. This time, we’re diving into the Scream franchise which began in 1996 with the late director Wes Craven and has seen 3 sequels also directed by Craven before Scream 5 and 6 rebooted the slasher franchise after his death. We talk through all the stab wounds, Stab movies, and Ghostface killers this franchise has seen ahead of Scream 7 set to release in thea...

The Awards Season Draft returns for round 5! In this recurring series where we competitively draft winners across one year's full awards circuit, we have covered 2015, 2022, 2012, and 2005 but our fifth stop is the 2007-8 Awards Season which featured one of the centuries most hotly contended Best Picture races between No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. We honor Paul Thomas Anderson's current awards run by looking back at the closest he came to winning an Oscar in 2008.

Our draft options include Oscar winners, Precursor winners (Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG, CCA), festival winners (TIFF, Venice, Cannes...

Kate Cobb is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and actor known for intimate, off-kilter storytelling that blends emotional authenticity with dark humor and touches of magical realism. Her second feature, BRB, a tender and darkly funny exploration of early-internet girlhood, premiered in the Breakouts program at Slamdance Film Festival 2026. Set in the era of dial-up and AIM away messages, a love-sick teenage girl and her older sister embark on a road trip to meet her online boyfriend, spiraling into chaos as secrets are revealed.

Kate recently completed production on her third feature, Collect, a...

Lucy Sandler is a filmmaker with a particular interest in the nuance of the female perspective and coming of age stories. Mechi Lakatos is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores dislocation, intergenerational rupture, and the emotional interior lives of women, queer people, and immigrants. The pair co-wrote the short film The Weight of a Dog, which played at Aspen and Atlanta in 2025.

Their first feature film development together, Danny is My Boyfriend, follows Lucy and Mechi after they discover they’re dating the same man. The pair fumble their way through a se...

For the first time at The Rolling Remote, we are heading into the lands of Westeros with A Night of the Seven Kingdoms, the HBO fantasy drama created by Ira Parker and George R.R. Martin. The series is the third live-action entry in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe, following Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. It's set roughly 90 years before the events of Game of Thrones and adapts the tales of Martin's "Tales of Dunk and Egg" novellas, beginning with the first one, which is season one...

Victoria Blade wrote/directed, and stars in the indie comedy pilot Vicky Wakes Up premiering at Slamdance Film Festival in 2026. The story follows Vicky, stuck in a dead-end office job, who lives an uninspired existence until she’s confronted by a mystical pop star through vivid dreams and visions. When a mysterious gift arrives, Vicky takes a step to face her fears and discover her true calling.

Joined by Nandita Joshi to discuss her work and career, Victoria is a multi-hyphenate talent who stars in Donald Glover's Emmy-nominated Swarm opposite Billie Eilish and re...

Today we are eating the rich, unlocking our inheritances, and moving our way up to the top tax bracket with How to Make a Killing written and directed by John Patton Ford and distributed by A24. Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way. The film stars Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, and Jessica Henwick. It is the sophomore feature follow-up to his 2022 directorial debut, Emily the Criminal, which premiered at Sundance. In addition to reviewing the film, we’ll di...

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The Awards Tape is growing! With our Awards Editor and local Oscars encyclopedia, Paul Rai, at the helm, our Oscars-centric show is becoming a weekly podcast all year long.

Alongside our review on The Rolling Tape for Emerald Fennell's latest film, "Wuthering Heights", we look back at the history of adaptations of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel. This episode focuses on the Academy's relationship to previous a...

"Wuthering Heights" was the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë in 1847. The latest adaptation is courtesy of Emerald Fennell and Warner Bros., her third feature film as a writer and director. The story, notably in quotations, follows a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw as Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie respectively. The film also stars Hong Chau, Martin Clunes, Alison Oliver, and Owen Cooper.

In addition to reviewing the film, we also discuss the careers of the f...

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The Awards Tape is growing! With our Awards Editor and local Oscars encyclopedia, Paul Rai, at the helm, our Oscars-centric show is becoming a weekly podcast all year long.

Love is in the air as Valentine's Day is less than a week away and the hotly anticipated steamy romance, “Wuthering Heights”, will be the major wide release meant to appeal to everyone on Valentine's weekend. Because of that...

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In a first for The Rolling Remote, our TV podcast series, we are talking about Industry, created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, that follows a group of young people just trying to survive in the world of high finance and investment banking.

The series first premiered in 2020 and, over four seasons, has steadily built a reputation as one of HBO's most compelling contemporary dramas. Across the first three seasons, the show gained traction through...

In the first edition of our newly formatted Monday episode of The Rolling Tape, we are discussing a new release, similar to what we have always done, while also expanding the conversation to include conversation on related industry topics and segments.

Today we’ll discuss Sirât as well as zoom out to NEON as a whole, unpacking the success of their 2025 slate while looking ahead to their upcoming releases in 2026. Stay with us as we also wrap up with a preview of February on what’s to come for our show as well as what we’ll see...

With Nuisance Bear, filmmakers Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman return to Churchill, Manitoba — affectionately known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” — to deepen the inquiry begun in their award-winning short film in 2021. The result is a striking portrait of the fraught coexistence between polar bears and humans, guided by an Inuit narrator whose insights resist simplification. 

We are joined by the film's editor, Andres Landau, who also edited the short and has been involved with the story for seven years. Parsing over 700 hours of nature and narration footage, Andres and his team craft a beautiful...

Apple TV+’s The Lost Bus is nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Academy Awards. We are joined by Special Effects Coordinator Brandon K. McLaughlin on the film to discuss his work. Starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, this visceral docudrama relives the 2018 Camp Fire that ravaged Paradise, California, following a bus driver and teacher racing to save 22 schoolchildren. 
Facing the challenge of recreating the deadliest wildfire in California history, Brandon spearheaded a seamless fusion of practical and visual effects. His team constructed six massive fire sets on a Santa Fe backlot, and collaborated with VFX sup...

Vulture’s Movies Fantasy League is well underway for the 2025-26 awards season and our team has been participating! Back in part one of this podcast mini-series, we discussed how we drafted our teams based on the criteria of box office, critical reception, and awards. The rules for how to play are available on the MFL hub, but their summary is as follows, “You select a roster of exactly eight films within a budget of 100 imaginary dollars. Once the scoring phase of the game begins, the films you’ve drafted will accumulate points for achieving milestones in box-office take, precur...

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival was held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. The festival was the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before relocating to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. The Rolling Tape was in attendance in Park City and today we recap the event with our best of the fest for what we saw on the big screen and virtually. 

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Send Help is directed by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, will they make it out alive? The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien.

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Arco was recently nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 98th Academy Awards. We are joined by the film's director, Ugo Bienvenu, to discuss his creative process and collaboration with his animation studio in developing the project. The story follows a girl who witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky in 2075. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. She shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time. Currently in wide release, the film is distributed by NEON.

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