The Rolling Tape

Last week we kicked off our category-by-category series through all 21 feature awards for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards. After our Best Picture conversation last week, with continue today with Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Adapted Screenplay.Follow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and LinktreePaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastAdam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTokCameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTokEvan Miller on Letterboxd, Bluesky, X, Instagram, and TikTokFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Nate HaydenSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

With this two-part mega episode, we’re covering both halves of the Glicked weekend for the Rome to the Oz, the swords clanging to the wands waving, the arena to the yellow brick road reviewing Wicked and Gladiator II. In Wicked, Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads. In Gladiator II, after his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsChapter Timestamps:0:00:00 Introduction0:03:38 Wicked Initial Thoughts0:29:26 Wicked Spoiler Review2:10:07 Wicked Oscars Assessment2:21:23 Wicked Final Ratings2:35:53 Gladiator II Initial Thoughts 2:59:33 Gladiator II Spoiler Review4:03:23 Gladiator II Oscars Assessment4:10:20 Gladiator II Final RatingsFollow our team online:Danny JarabekSara CiplickasBryan SudfieldAdam PatlaMatthew SotoPaul RaiKam RyanValerie Buvat de VirginyCameron RitterEvan MillerAryan PatelFilms mentioned:Letterboxd ListResources:Wicked Review by Adam PatlaHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

In the wake of our second draft above-the-line predictions, we are now kicking off our category-by-category series through all 21 awards for the rest of the Oscar’s season. Today we are starting with Best Picture, and the upcoming episodes will group categories of 3 together with each ensuing week. Follow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and LinktreePaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastAdam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTokGabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, Bluesky, X, and TikTokEvan Miller on Letterboxd, Bluesky, X, Instagram, and TikTokFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

Ridley Scott’s nearly five-decade-long career of filmmaking has produced some of film history’s most iconic stories and characters ranging from Ripley’s relentless Alien-fighting perseverance to Deckard terminating replicants to Maximus entertaining the arena. His career has vastly spanned genres from historical epics to sci-fi futures, and one of his greatest defining features as an auteur is doing things his own way. We discuss the long career of the 86-year-old director before previewing his latest with Gladiator II.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and LinktreePaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XSara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XHave questions? Email [email protected] mentioned:Letterboxd listCredits:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Nate HaydenSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

Following a Cannes World Premiere that resulted in two awards for a Jury Prize and Best Actress to the ensemble cast, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez has garnered a divisive response. Now available to stream on Netflix, the film stars Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsChapter Timestamps:0:00:00 Introduction0:15:47 Initial Thoughts0:36:44 Spoiler Review1:59:38 Oscars Assessment2:16:12 Final RatingsFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and LinktreeBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastAdam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTokOwen Wilczek on Letterboxd, and XPaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XEthan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and XFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listTrans Critic Reviews:Juan BarquinHarron WalkerDrew Barnett GregoryMey RudeHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

After a TIFF world premiere, creative duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods bring their brand of horror to wide release. Heretic, distributed by A24, follows two young religious women who are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man. The film stars Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsChapter Timestamps:0:00:00 Introduction0:18:35 Initial Thoughts0:30:09 Spoiler Review1:43:07 Oscars Assessment1:46:33 Final RatingsFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and LinktreeBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastAdam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTokCameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTokFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

With festival season now behind us and the field of contenders coming into a more clear picture, we follow up on our first draft predictions with a second draft of above-the-line categories including Picture, Director, the Original and Adapted Screenplay and all four performance categories. After this round of predictions, we will move category by category through all 21 awards through the rest of the season. Follow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and LinktreePaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastAdam Patla on Letterboxd, X, TikTokGabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, X, and TikTokOwen Wilczek on Letterboxd, and XFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Nate HaydenSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

After taking home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and playing 35mm prints in limited release around the country, Sean Baker’s Anora has now hit wide release in theaters. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. The film stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, and Yura Borisov.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsChapter Timestamps:0:00:00 Introduction0:31:58 Initial Thoughts0:49:05 Spoiler Review2:00:19 Oscars Assessment2:13:45 Final RatingsFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and LinktreeBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastPaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XEvan Miller on Letterboxd, X, Instagram, and TikTokFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listResources:Anora Review by Matt MintonHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

To round out our festival season, we recap the Philadelphia Film Festival with a few contributors from our own team, as well as with a returning guest. We discuss the evolving state of the festival and its jam-packed lineup from the Philadelphia Film Society and highlight the films on each of our slates.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsFollow our guest online:Larry Fried on Letterboxd, Twitter, Authory, Geek Vibes Nation, and That ShelfFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and LinktreeBryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty FastPaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XFilms mentioned:Letterboxd listHave questions? Email [email protected]:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Danny JarabekSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree

To celebrate spooky season and all the thrills and chills we’ve witnessed so far this year, we are doing a genre retrospective today covering the spectrum of horror movies released in 2024. Going all the way back to Night Swim, we recap our way through the year unpacking the best and worst of the genre through October with a preview for what is still to come.Listen Here:SpotifyApple PodcastsAll Listening PlatformsFollow our team online:Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and LinktreePaul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and XRed Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and InstagramHave questions? Email [email protected] mentioned:Letterboxd listCredits:Theme music by Eugene Rocco UtleyArtwork by Danny JarabekEdited by Nate HaydenSupport the showThe Rolling Tape is a multimedia film and entertainment outlet for podcasts, online publications, and film production. The podcast is a TRT production covering weekly film reviews, industry updates, and awards season news.Find The Rolling Tape everywhere:Podcast Website LinkWebsite & Publications: www.therollingtape.comInstagram: @therollingtapeX: @therollingtape Letterboxd: @therollingtape Support our team on Linktree