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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 One takes place immediately before the events of Episode IV: A New Hope. It is the ninth theatrically released entry in the Star Wars franchise. It hit theaters on December 16, 2016, and was directed by Gareth Edwards. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi is the tenth Star...

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 international stage of cinema.

The lineup is set, the red carpet is rolled out, and the Palais is ready to go for the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival. We previously discussed the competition lineup in depth upon the lineup announcement, but now we look at specifically what we have tickets for as of opening night.

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 of the show (you can listen to our recap episodes), and now we finally get to talk about a new season as it's unfolding in real time after years of delays and rumors, production discourse, and a lot of questions about what the series would even look like in a third season. 

Season three picks u...

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 look at the studio behind the film, Amazon MGM, and wrap up with this week’s mini-game guessing mystery movies based on Letterboxd reviews. Stay with us.

Get your mutton ready we’re discussing The Sheep Detectives. The film is directed by Kyle Balda and written by Craig Mazin, based on the 2005 novel T...

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 weekend, the summer movie season is now in full swing. We are here today to try to predict where the box office will go and just have a fun time breaking down the slate and discussing which movies have each of us the most excited.

We discuss the chronological releases of movies on our...

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 to start the sequels with The Force Awakens, joined by the 2008 theatrically released animated film The Clone Wars as we head closer and closer toward the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Our current collaborative ranking so far:

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 versatility as an actress going back to 1975.

For many of us, Streep is the gold standard for prestige performances, particularly in the kind of mid-budget adult dramas Hollywood rarely produces today. With a filmography approaching 65 roles, her impact is as expansive as it is enduring.

For this draft, we’re narrowing the field to her 21 Academy Award–nominate...

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 the career of the film’s iconic lead, Anne Hathaway who is in the midst of a career year. 

Gird your loins for the sequel to 2006’s modern classic The Devil Wears Prada with its direct sequel 20 years later. The film is directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna...

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 and the film, as it was shot and produced locally in Philly. The film is a single-night comedy that follows various mid-twenties drifters over the course of one party.

Co-Writer and Director Aaron Bartuska joins us to discuss the production process, which mostly took place four years ago across multiple weekends during the COVID pandemic. He is also in the midst of...

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 like podcasts. They’re long and rough and irritating, and they get everywhere." Oh well, maybe next time.

Welcome to another episode of RETRO//RANKED, the Rolling Tape podcast series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some o...

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, we dove into the Scream franchise, but today we’re trading in the knives for Dolce & Gabbana in the 2006 workplace comedy classic The Devil Wears Prada ahead of the sequel set to release in theaters on May 1. 

Released two decades ago, The Devil Wears Prada is directed by Da...

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 life and 80s peak of pop star Michael Jackson. The first thought for many Oscar pundits' brains was, is Michael an awards contender? Does it matter if critics dislike the film if it's so popular with the general public? And what is the history for music biopics at the Academy Awards? 

We answer all t...

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 by Lee Sung Jin. At its core, it's about conflict, something usually small, impulsive, almost meaningless, that spirals into something way bigger than it should. It's super messy, uncomfortable, funny, and usually ends up revealing a lot about the people who are involved. 

Season 1 starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as Danny Cho and Amy Lau, t...

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 Mother Mary, A24’s deconstruction of its titular fictional music icon directed by David Lowery.

Michael follows the life of the American singer Michael Jackson, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the 1980s Bad tour. Jackson is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson and as a child by Juliano Krue Valdi, both i...

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 Rolling Tape podcast series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. Today, we continue with Star Wars, finishing off the original trilogy and turning the page to a much more divisive chapter with the prequel trilogy as we...

The Cannes Film Festival lineup is officially here as we announced last week, so while it’s a quieter stretch for awards news, we’re leaning into the chaos in the best way possible with ACTING PREDICTIONS.

After our recent Vulture-style 2027 Oscar Contenders draft, our Awards Editor, Paul Rai, takes things a step further by predicting all four acting categories for the 2027 Oscars completely blind. With limited information on categories and plenty of guesswork (and likely wrong predictions), it’s an early, off-the-cuff snapshot of where the acting awards races could go.

Plus, with C...

The Rolling Tape attended CinemaCon this year! Our very own Kam Ryan was at the expo in Las Vegas participating in events, activations, and panels in the annual trade show for theater owners.

CinemaCon took place in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas this past week. More than just an episode of The Studio, it’s one of the core events of the film industry’s annual news cycle and the world’s largest gathering for the motion picture theater industry featuring major studios sharing their slate with theater owners for the rest of the year and beyond. We’ll di...

We are wrapping up Season 2 of The Pitt!! Spoilers ahead for Episodes 11-15 (including the season finale...).

Noah Wyle's hit HBO medical drama has quietly become everybody’s favorite show, and every time we come back to it, it’s somehow more chaotic, more stressful, and honestly just more fun to talk about.

We covered the first half of the season earlier, so today we’re diving into Episodes 11 through 15 and then zooming out to talk about Season 2 as a whole discussing what worked, what didn’t, and where this show is heading next.

In a reimagining of The Mummy franchise that dates back to the Universal Classic Monster series of the 1930’s. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is written and directed by, you guessed it, Lee Cronin, known most recently for Evil Dead Rise in 2023. 

In addition to reviewing the film, we contextualize the greater Mummy franchise with where it has been and where it’s going, as well as discuss Blumhouse, the studio behind this latest installment. 

The film synopsis is as follows: the young daughter of a journalist disappears into the dese...

Pete Ohs works as a director, producer, writer, editor, and cinematographer. He has produced and directed five feature films in the past five years. In 2025, he was at Sundance with OBEX, a fantasy adventure feature he produced, co-wrote and shot. This was followed by The True Beauty of Being Bitten By a Tick, a genre-bending horror satire he directed, co-wrote and shot.

Here, Pete joins us to discuss Erupcja, a "foreign film" experiment that was produced with a light outline and shot chronologically in Warsaw, Poland. A volcanic eruption strands Bethany...

A long time ago on a podcast far far away…

Welcome to a brand new season of RETRO//RANKED, The Rolling Tape seasonal series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. Today, we lift off with Season 6 to the Star Wars galaxy. Over the course of the next several episodes, we’ll be covering every single theatrically released Star Wars film ever made, including one or two that may surprise you. We are, of course, doin...

The Cannes Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is just a month away, running May 12–24. This past Thursday, Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch announced the official selections, including In Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard, and more. For those following awards season, Cannes has increasingly become an unofficial kickoff. As the Academy’s international membership has expanded in recent years, so has the awards impact of Cannes premieres.

On this episode, we’ll break down the Competi...

WAHOO!!! We’re off to the outer galaxy, not alongside the Artemis II astronauts but rather with two Italian plumbers in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel, it is the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023, which we previously reviewed on the podcast in Episode 034.

Mario, Luigi, and their friends adventure into outer space, where they meet Princess Rosalina and face off against Bowser and his son, Bowser Jr. Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, and Keegan-Michael Ke...

With the release of A24's The Drama, we thought it would be a great time to take a moment to talk about A24 as a studio. When it comes to independent films and Oscar-winning successes, no indie film studio has exploded in popularity and name recognition to the same degree as A24, winning Best Picture twice (Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All at Once) in its 14-year existence.

For some, A24 is a brand, it's an aesthetic, it's a way of life. And for others, it's an arbiter of quality, an...

With our TV host at The Rolling Remote, Jake Fittipaldi, we are trying something a little bit new here called "channel surfing" as we peruse through what we're collectively watching across the TV landscape. 

There’s just way too much TV right now for us to cover everything in full episodes, so this is our way of opening things up a bit. Instead of one show, we’re bouncing around. Talking about what we’ve actually been watching, what we think is worth your time, and what maybe isn’t. Think of this as recommendations, but also a tempera...

Save the date because it’s the event of the year, celebrating the marriage of Charlie Thompson and Emma Harwood in The Drama written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. 

A24’s totally romantic and completely comedic rom-com, The Drama, which premiered on March 17, 2026 at DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles, was released in the United States by A24 on April 3, 2026. The film stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as an engaged couple who begin to learn secrets about one another in the lead-up to their wedding. It also stars Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie and Haile...

Every month, we read a book that has been adapted for the screen… then we share our receipts. What worked? What didn’t? Did we enjoy the book or the movie more?

Our host, Kasey Dunifer, is a cinephile and avid reader. She loves exploring how these two art forms intersect to create even richer worlds. So if you like books and movies, you’re in the right place. Welcome to the club.

This month we read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It is the bestselling sci-fi novel from 2021, that has just been a...

Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei are longtime collaborators who have worked together across three feature films, CAM, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and now Faces of Death. The film is a remake of the 1978 film, which spawned significant controversy for its grotesque depictions of death scenes, and the lore surrounding whether they were real deaths turned the film into a cult-followed franchise.

The 2026 edition stars Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX. We are joined by the film's Director/Co-Writer, Daniel Goldhaber & Co-Writer/Producer...

The 2026 Oscars may have just wrapped up, but with our expanded weekly conversations on The Awards Tape, the award season has already turned the calendar into the next cycle. Soon enough, on April 9, we're going to get the Cannes announcement lineup, which will kickstart the first Oscar rumors, but until then we're discussing potential contenders in a draft style format to keep things fun. 

Each of us is going to draft 8 potential award contenders we believe will be big value plays come next award season and the Oscars. Those selections will be graded and accumulate points throughout t...

It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we continue our retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria. With the show returning for a new season on April 12th for Season 3, we'll be going back and revisiting each of the two previous seasons leading up to the premiere. 

We're continuing our Euphoria retrospective and getting into the second season of the ever-so-controversial HBO hit show. This is the season that came out in 2022 after a very long pandemic delay, and it definitely feels way different than season 1. It's bigger, maybe a little messier. But w...

We’re being greedy here today at The Rolling Tape podcast with not just one final girl movie on the docket, but two final girl movies to discuss. The first is They Will Kill You, an action comedy horror film directed by Kirill Sokolov, from a script co-written with Alex Litvak. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 27, 2026.

To pair with it, we’re also discussing last week’s wide release sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, another comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and writte...

Join us as we celebrate two years of Ladies Night, reflecting on women's roles in the film industry. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, the ladies at TRT look back at the Oscars, Timotheé Chalamet's evolving persona, and celebrate the women in filmmaking today. 

On this episode:
Sara Ciplickas
Sasha Raquel
Kam Ryan
Neha Jha

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Welcome 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 recommend adding to yours. From the big screen to streaming, we discuss what we are currently watching and what you might want to add to your queue. So grab your popcorn, clear some space in the queue, and let’s press play.

For our March 2026 edition and kickoff episode, we break down what movies are...

We're in the weekend of Project Hail Mary as it's opening successfully at the box office as the Lord and Miller directed sci-fi saga has launched to an $80 million domestic gross. It's received an A Cinema score, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 4.4 on Letterboxd, and a 77 Metacritic score. All the signs seem to be pointing towards not just the biggest crowd pleaser of the year, but possibly an awards contender.

That's partially what this episode will focus on, but we'll also take a deep dive into the relationship the Academy has had with the science fiction...

It's almost time for Euphoria Sundays once again. Today, we are kicking off a brand new retrospective series on HBO's Euphoria. With the show returning for a new season on April 12th for Season 3, we'll be going back and revisiting each of the two previous seasons leading up to the premiere. 

Premiering on HBO in 2019, Euphoria was created by filmmaker Sam Levinson and quickly became one of HBO's biggest cultural phenomena known for its striking visual style, bold storytelling, and unflinching depiction of teenage life in the digital age. At the center of t...

We’re going to space today with Ryan Gosling and Rocky in the extraterrestrial saga, Project Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary premiered in London on March 9, 2026, and was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on March 20, 2026. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun, and save Earth. An unexpected friendship may be the key. The film is written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir and stars Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, and Lionel Boyce.

We discuss Phil Lord and Christopher Mil...

The Marvels of Media Festival returns for its fifth year, taking place March 26–28, 2026 at the Museum of the Moving Image. The event continues its mission of celebrating and elevating autistic media-makers through free screenings, exhibitions, panels, and workshops. Founded by Josh Sapan, former CEO of AMC Networks for 25 years, responsible for hit shows including Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and The Walking Dead, among others, the festival creates a vital space for artists to showcase their work, connect with industry professionals, and build community. In this interview, Sapan is joined by festival programmer Miranda Lee, wh...

In our final episode of The Awards Tape for the 2025-26 awards season, we recap the Oscars as the 98th Academy Awards hav wrapped up as of March 15. We at The Rolling Tape began covering this back in April of last year, where we did our pre-Cannes predictions for the year, and it's continued consistently throughout festivals, awards ceremonies, and discourse involving ballet and cats. We recap the ceremony, this year's Oscar winners, and announce our 4th annual TRT Award Winners. 

On this episode:
Paul Rai
Jacob Diedenhofer
Tate Fowler
Sara C...

The Pitt is a medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle after the same group collaborate on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez. 

Each season of the series follows emergency department staff as they attempt to overcome the hardships of a single 15-hour work shift at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, all while having to navigate staff shortages and underfunding. Each episode covers approximately one hour of t...

March has been a month of horror with last week’s conversation on The Bride! and movie monsters setting the stage for this week to dive into the paranormal with Ian Tuason’s directorial debut, undertone. Undertone premiered at Fantasia Festival on July 27, 2025, and was theatrically released in the US by A24 on March 13, 2026.

Today, we are calling all demonic spirits and paranormal skeptics while channeling the energy of the undertone podcast. The film stars Nina Kiri as Evy, a woman who hosts a paranormal podcast with her friend Justin played by Adam DiMarco, where she is the...