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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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