The Rolling Tape
The Rolling Tape podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.
Episodes
501 episodes
*SUNDANCE 2026* Interview With 'Nuisance Bear' (2026) Editor, Andres Landau
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 resu...
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Episode 501
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21:18
Interview With 'The Lost Bus' (2025) Special Effects Coordinator, Brandon K. McLaughlin
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...
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Episode 500
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22:17
Movies Fantasy League: Part Two
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, critica...
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Episode 499
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39:28
Sundance Film Festival Recap 2026
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 w...
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Episode 494
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1:31:44
EP 174: Send Help (2026)
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 ...
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Episode 493
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1:12:15
Interview With 'Arco' (2025) Director, Ugo Bienvenu
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 sto...
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Episode 492
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21:06
The Awards Tape: Oscar Nomination Recap (2026) ft. Cole Curtiss-Fuentes
After the Oscar nomination announcements for the 98th Academy Awards, we break down the results by analyzing all of the expected nominations we received along with any surprises announced by Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks. We reveal how accu...
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Episode 491
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2:11:31
EP 173: Review Round-Up of Sentimental Value (2025), The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) & Mercy (2026)
In a round-up review episode while some of our team is at Sundance 2026, we look back to a couple of 2025 releases we've yet to discuss including Joachim Trier's 9-time Oscar nominated 'Sentimental Value' and Mona Fastvold's musical historical ...
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Episode 490
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1:57:34
Live Commentary: 98th Academy Awards Nominations (2026) Live Reactions
Oscar Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced live by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman! Here are our live, uncut reactions to the nomination announcements with immediate analysis following the ceremony.Follow our...
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Episode 489
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44:31
The Awards Tape: 98th Academy Awards (2026) Final Oscar Nomination Predictions
After multiple drafts of way-too-early above the line predictions through the summer, a “state of the awards race” pulse check episode discussing the first round of major precursors, and our specialized prediction episodes that featured in dept...
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Episode 488
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4:02:19
EP 172: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It serves as the fourth installment overall in the 28 Days Later film series. As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson mak...
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Episode 487
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1:33:03
Ladies Night: Best of 2025, The Problematic Ending of Marty Supreme & What’s to Come in 2026
In their first recording of the new year, the ladies drop their top five movies of 2025 and discuss what they’re excited for in 2026. They also briefly revisit ‘Marty Supreme’ to discuss its ending, potential problematic narrative, and how it f...
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Episode 486
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1:13:31
Interview With 'Sound of Falling' (2025) Director, Mascha Schilinski & Cinematographer, Fabian Gamper
Mascha Schilinski’s century-spanning German epic is a visual poem about time, memory, and gendered violence that unfolds across four generations of women connected to the same rural farmhouse. The film collapses these timelines by slipping in a...
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Episode 485
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26:36
RETRO//RANKED: '28' Franchise
This is a re-release of Season 2 of our RETRO//RANKED podcast series. We recorded the episode upon the release of 28 Years Later in 2025, and we are resharing it in honor of Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hitting theaters t...
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Episode 484
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2:17:50
Sundance Film Festival Preview 2026
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. The festival is slated to be the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before the festival relocates to Boulde...
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Episode 483
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1:06:49
The Awards Tape: Best Costume Design, Production Design & Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar Predictions 2025-26
After multiple drafts of way-too-early above the line predictions through the summer, and a “state of the awards race” pulse check episode discussing the first round of major precursors, we are finally closing out our specialized prediction epi...
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Episode 482
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1:07:51
The Rolling Remote: The Pitt Season 1 Recap & The State of TV in 2026
Watch this episode on video by subscribing to our Patreon.We have a new host in town with Jake Fittipaldi taking the reins of The Rolling Remote, a show that is also going to be evolving in 2026. This is the start of a broader, more expa...
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Episode 481
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1:17:49
Live Commentary: 83rd Golden Globes (2026)
We react live to the 83rd Golden Globes for the 2026 ceremony. Throughout the ceremony we provide our live reactions to the winners, and debrief our takeaways for the winners and the implications for the rest of the awards season.Subs...
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Episode 480
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3:25:20
EP 171: No Other Choice (2025)
No Other Choice is directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, and Woo Seung Kim. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festiv...
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Episode 479
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1:53:36
Speed Run Reviews of It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Train Dreams, Hedda & If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
This is a special episode because we aren’t just reviewing one movie, we are reviewing five movies. Our team has selected five films that stood out in 2025 that we did not get a chance to review on the main show, in a speed run format reviewing...
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Episode 478
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1:46:29
RETRO//RANKED: James Cameron (Avatar: Way of Water & Avatar: Fire and Ash)
*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on James Cameron. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon.Oh Captain, my Captain, Big Jim. It’s been quite the journey and ...
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Episode 477
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34:52
NEWS 051: The Actor Award (SAG) Nominations 2025-26
The recently rebranded Actor Awards, formerly SAG Awards, have announced their nominations and are the latest guild to weigh in on the award season. We analyze the significance of the nominations, surprises, and the implications for the upcomin...
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Episode 476
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40:22
The Rolling Remote: Stranger Things Series Finale
Our full video recaps of all Stranger Things seasons are available on Patreon.When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon for Netflix capturing small-town mystery, supernatural horror, and 1980s nostal...
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Episode 476
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2:34:31
The Awards Tape: 83rd Golden Globes (2026) Final Predictions
With the Golden Globes approaching this coming Sunday (1/11), we make our final predictions for all film categories before live reacting to the ceremony. Subscribe:The Roll...
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Episode 475
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2:12:56
Best of 2025 & Most Anticipated of 2026
With 2025 and the third full calendar year of The Rolling Tape in the books, we celebrate the year’s best moments in cinema by talking about our favorite movies, performances, scenes and superlatives. We then look ahead to 2026 and discuss our ...
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Episode 474
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2:18:19