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The Rolling Tape podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.
Ladies Night 009
After a chaotic primary discussion of âfangirlingâ the ladies continue to break down this industry phenomenon, discussing what it means to be a fangirl and which actors are capitalizing on the idea of âfor the girls.âÂ
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*PATREON PREVIEW* The Batman 2 Script, The Odyssey Poster & Denis Villeneuve and Bond
Ahead of our F1 review, we debriefed a pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation featuring The Batman 2 script completion, The Odyssey poster and teaser announcement, and Denis Villeneuve directing the next James Bond movie.
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0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts0:17:05 Spoiler Review1:08:43 Oscars Assessment1:11:15 Final RatingsFollow our team online:
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The Rolling Remote: TV in 2025 & Emmy Nomination Predictions
After our first four episodes of our new Rolling Remote podcast series covering Severance Season 2, The White Lotus Season 3, The Studio Season 1, and The Last of Us Season 2, weâre taking a broader lens at TV in 2025 and rounding up any other shows that stood out to us as a team. Weâll discuss personal standouts we didnât cover on this podcast series before diving into Emmy nomination predictions.Â
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Interview With 'Tummy Monster' (2025) Director, Ciaran Lyons & Actor, Lorn Macdonald
In our first coverage of a Scottish film, Tummy Monster is described as follows: when a self-centered tattoo artist discovers his latest client is a world-famous musician, his fixation on getting a selfie with his client embroils the pair into a bizarre and dangerous game. Matthew Allen joins director Ciaran Lyons and star Lorn Macdonald in a conversation about the making of the film which had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2024.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print' (2025) Directors, Salima Koroma, Alice Gu, Cecilia Aldarondo
Ms. magazine has been a driver of substantial change in the lives of women and how they have been perceived over the past 50+ years. Through interweaving a wide array of archival footage, close analysis of the magazineâs most iconic cover stories and contemporary interviews with the women who made Ms. what it is, Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print examines the magazineâs legacy, highlighting its most powerful moments while also poignantly reflecting on its well-intentioned mistakes. From the Spotlight Documentary section of Tribeca, we interview the three directors Salima Koroma, Alice Gu, and Cecilia Aldarondo.
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EP 145: F1 The Movie (2025)
Based on the premier class of motorsport, F1 The Movie follows the international worldwide racing sport. The film is a sports drama starring Brad Pitt as a driver who returns to Formula One racing after a career cut short by injury. It was directed by Joseph Kosinski with a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger. It is based on the Formula One World Championship, created in collaboration with the FIA, its governing body. The film also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem.
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*PATREON PREVIEW* Zombie Media & Venice International Film Festival Lineup Speculation
Ahead of our 28 Years Later review, the team debates zombie media with the best and worst of zombie movie and TV show protagonists. We also speculate on the potential Venice International Film Festival lineup before the fall festival season starts to kick into full gear in less than a couple of months.Â
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Interview With 'Ballerina' (2025) Supervising Sound Editor, Mark Stoeckinger
Ethan Simmie joins Mark Stoeckinger, a three-time Oscar nominee and key contributor to the John Wick universe as a Supervising Sound Editor, who has crafted an electrifying soundscape for Ballerina, elevating its pulse-pounding action and gritty underworld atmosphere. Set during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 â Parabellum, the film follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) as she trains in the Ruska Romaâs assassin traditions and seeks vengeance. He discussed the "precision violence" of the sound designâhoned through work on all four John Wick films and The Continentalâbringing every gunshot, fight, and tense moment to life with unparall...
NEWS 039: Tribeca 2025 Recap ft. Larry Fried
Tribeca Festival in New York recently wrapped up and we had three members of our team helping to cover some film titles in the diverse lineup. Weâll discuss what we heard and saw through the festival from myself, Sara Ciplickas our Co-Founder and host of Ladies Night and the Pride Mini-Series, and writer Arleigh Rodgers who isnât here on the podcast but was in Tribeca for the festival including our coverage plans and the festivalâs award winners alongside a guest, Larry Fried.
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NEWS 039: Tribeca 2025 Recap ft. Larry Fried
Tribeca Festival in New York recently wrapped up and we had three members of our team helping to cover some film titles in the diverse lineup. Weâll discuss what we heard and saw through the festival from myself, Sara Ciplickas our Co-Founder and host of Ladies Night and the Pride Mini-Series, and writer Arleigh Rodgers who isnât here on the podcast but was in Tribeca for the festival including our coverage plans and the festivalâs award winners alongside a guest, Larry Fried.
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Pride Mini-Series: Queer Television & Modern Cinema (Part Four)
As we enter the 90s and early 2000s the team discusses Queer cinemaâs entrance into the mainstream and the films that we grew up with. We discuss The Oscars and the dramas that entered âhigh cinema,â as well as the low-budget comedies that came to define CAMP and the Queer pushback to the tragedies still facing them. With only one more episode left, the team prepares to break down contemporary Queer cinema and where we go from here.
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EP 144: 28 Years Later (2025)
23 years after Danny Boyle and Alex Garlandâs genre-breaking dystopian zombie movie comes a direct sequel to that film with 28 Years Later, directed and written by the same creators. A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.
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*PATREON PREVIEW* Robert Eggers and 'A Christmas Carol', Pixar Announcements & News on Animation
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features ahead of our review for The Life of Chuck features the news on Robert Eggers and 'A Christmas Carol, some Pixar announcement, and broader news in the animation industry at-large. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more and see the full episode on video.
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Bonus Review: Materialists (2025)
After our main review for the weekend covering Mike Flanaganâs The Life of Chuck, weâre pairing that with a bonus review of Celine Songâs Materialists. The follow-up to Song's critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated debut, Materialists follows a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. The film stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, and Zoe Winters.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'The Price of Milk' (2025) Director, Nicholas Bruckman
As part of the NOW Special Screening series at Tribeca 2025, The Price of Milk is a four-episode mini-series that utilizes the story of a common, everyday product to tell a much broader story about American capitalism, politics, advertising, and environmentalism. The description reads: the untold battle behind the â90s âGot Milkâ campaign leads an investigative romp from the dairy farm to the White House, diving into Americansâ love/hate relationship with milk. In our interview with director Nicholas Bruckman, he details the his most surprising findings and teases the final episode of the series.
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Pride Mini-Series: New Queer Cinema & Moving to Mainstream Hollywood (Part Three)
As we enter the 90s and early 2000s the team discusses Queer cinemaâs entrance into the mainstream and the films that we grew up with. We discuss The Oscars and the dramas that entered âhigh cinema,â as well as the low-budget comedies that came to define CAMP and the Queer pushback to the tragedies still facing them. With only one more episode left, the team prepares to break down contemporary Queer cinema and where we go from here.
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EP 143: The Life of Chuck (2025)
Last yearâs TIFF peopleâs Choice Award winner is now in wide release from NEON, Mike Flanaganâs The Life of Chuck: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.Â
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0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts0:32:41 Spoiler Review1:51:17 Oscars Assessment1:57:04 Final RatingsFollow our team online:
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*DC/DOX 2025* Interview With 'The Right Track' (2025) Director, Shareen Anderson & Participants, Yasmin Vafa and Audra Doody
The Right Track (2025) is a powerful documentary that amplifies the voices of survivors of sextrafficking, revealing their resilience, heartbreak, and courage as they fight for freedom, justice, and a future where exploited individuals are no longer criminalized but protected. Kam Ryan sits down with Director Shareen Anderson and documentary participants Yasmin Vafa and Audra Doody to discuss the gripping documentary and relentless fight to end sex trafficking. The film premiered at DC/DOX on June 13th.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'YANUNI' (2025) Director, Richard Ladkani & Subject, Juma Xipaia
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 our interview, Richard and Juma discuss the approach they discussed for sharing Juma's message and the importance of safety and security for the subjects and crew during the process. As the first woman to serve as chief of the Middle Xingu region, Juma is an internationally recognized advocate who has survived six assassination attempts for her work.
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*PATREON PREVIEW* Trailer Reactions to 'Frankenstein', 'Wicked: For Good', 'Black Phone 2', and 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey'
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. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more.
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Bonus Review: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025)
For a bonus review this weekend on a weekend full of new releases and our main review settled on Wes Andersonâs The Phoenician Scheme, weâve got so many John Wick heads on our team that we couldnât pass up the opportunity to review the franchiseâs first spin-off Ballerina, or formally From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. The film is described as follows: an assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death. Directed by Len Wiseman, the film stars Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel...
*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Maintenance Artist' (2025) Director, Toby Perl Freilich
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. The film is playing in the Documentary Competition at Tribeca and we had the opportunity to discuss the film and development with its subject with the director.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Widow Champion' (2025) Director, Zippy Kimundu
âWidow Championâ 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 to complete this documentary and the progress made in these womenâs fight against widow inheritance and patriarchal traditions. The film debuted in the US at Tribeca Festival and will be followed by a premiere at DC/DOX June 14th.
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*PATREON PREVIEW* RETRO/RANKED: Jurassic Park (1-2)
This is a preview podcast for one of our newest Patreon exclusive podcast series, RETRO/RANKED.Â
In this spinoff of our existing Retrospective series, weâll be taking a long-form approach to our retrospectives for full franchises and filmographies. Every season of RETRO/RANKED will see us discuss every single entry in a franchise or directorâs career that we cover with the goal of creating a definitive ranked list that will represent TRTâs overall assessment. You better hold onto your butts because our premiere season will see us cover the Jurassic Park franchise in its entiret...
RETROSPECTIVE 023: Mike Flanagan
Ahead of Mike Flanaganâs 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. Weâll discuss his early work through Doctor Sleep as well as his highly acclaimed series work with The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Midnight Mass.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Dog of God' (2025) Co-Directors, Lauris Abele & Raitis Abele
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 Äbele, who sit down with interview host Arleigh Rodgers at Tribeca Festival to discuss their nightmarish depiction of a 17th century witch trial in Livonia that uncovers a werewolf within a devout community.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'State of Firsts' (2025) Director Chase Joynt & Producer Jenna Kelly
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 Congress. Sara Ciplickas sits down with Director Chase Joynt and Producer Jenna M. Kelly to discuss the process of documenting Sarahâs story.
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Pride Mini-Series: Cinema During Pride Movements & The AIDS Epidemic (Part Two)
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 of the two decades, contextualizing cinema within American history.
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*TRIBECA 2025* Interview With 'Esta Isla' (2025) Co-Directors, Christian Carretero & Lorraine Jones
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 remote area of the island after a murder occurs. We talk with co-directors Christian Carretero and Lorraine Jones about the significance of the film's shooting locations and the sociopolitical aspect of the film's Puerto Rican representation.
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EP 142: The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
Wes Andersonâs 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 appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins. The film stars Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and many more.
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*PATREON PREVIEW* Superman Box Office Projections & Meet the Parents Returns
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 franchise. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more.
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Live Commentary: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
*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, watch John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) together with commentary on the movie and the John Wick franchise as a whole.
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Pride Mini-Series: Early Cinema & LGBTQ in Classic Hollywood (Part One)
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 films that both positively and negatively affected our perception of the LGBTQ community. For Episode One, the team discusses âPre Stonewallâ cinema, from the first film all the way up until 1969.Â
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EP 141: Bring Her Back (2025)
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 the secluded home of their new foster mother. Bring Her Back stars Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Jonah Wren Phillips, and Mischa Heywood.
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0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts0:23:04 Spoiler Review1:36:34 Oscars Assessment1:37:46...Ladies Night 008
The ladies are back in the studio to discuss the phenomenon of âfangirling" as part of internet culture in entertainment. We unpack the deconstruction of the male image in contemporary films, internet boyfriends, and the parasocial relationships between audiences and todayâs biggest stars.
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Live Commentary: 78th Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony (2025)
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.
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EP 140: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
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 known as the Entity - which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe - with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it...
The Rolling Roulette: Red Broadwell & Evan Miller (March Madness)
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 March, the theme was "March Madness," featuring sports movie recommendations. Red Broadwell and Evan Miller discussÂ
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RETROSPECTIVE 022: Mission Impossible Franchise
With its 8th and (final?) entry coming to theaters this coming weekend with Mission: ImpossibleâThe Final Reckoning, we look back at the storied action franchise that dates back to 1996. Weâll reflect on the legacy of the franchise and its 7 entries, along with the stars and directors who have contributed to its 30-year evolution. Weâll discuss all the mask reveals, surfaces Tom Cruise has run across, and villains he has pursued as Ethan Hunt, the IMF agent who weâll trust one last time.
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EP 139: Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) ft. Derrick Murray
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, the movie is described as follows: plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them. The film stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Rya Kihlstedt, and Richard Harmon.Â
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