The Rolling Tape

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.

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Gabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, Bluesky, X, and TikTok
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Films mentioned:
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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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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.

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Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X

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Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Nate Hayden

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The 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.

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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.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:15:47 Initial Thoughts
• 0:36:44 Spoiler Review
• 1:59:38 Oscars Assessment
• 2:16:12 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok
Owen Wilczek on Letterboxd, and X
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Trans Critic Reviews:
Juan Barquin
Harron Walker
Drew Barnett Gregory
Mey Rude

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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The 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.

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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.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:18:35 Initial Thoughts
• 0:30:09 Spoiler Review
• 1:43:07 Oscars Assessment
• 1:46:33 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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The 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.

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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. 

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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, X, TikTok
Gabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, X, and TikTok
Owen Wilczek on Letterboxd, and X

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Nate Hayden

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The 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.

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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.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:31:58 Initial Thoughts
• 0:49:05 Spoiler Review
• 2:00:19 Oscars Assessment
• 2:13:45 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Evan Miller on Letterboxd, X, Instagram, and TikTok

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Resources:
Anora Review by Matt Minton

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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The 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.

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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.

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Larry Fried on Letterboxd, Twitter, Authory, Geek Vibes Nation, and That Shelf

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Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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The 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.

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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.

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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram

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Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Nate Hayden

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The 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.

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Landon Defever on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, Films for the Void
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram,  X, TikTok

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Resources:
Memoir of a Snail Review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Review

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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The 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.

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Edward Berger’s sophomore feature after the critical and awards success of All Quiet on the Western Front brings him inside the confines of the papacy with Conclave. When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:22:52 Initial Thoughts
• 0:40:16 Spoiler Review
• 1:42:52 Oscars Assessment
• 1:50:48 Final Ratings

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Ezra Cubero on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Silver Screen Xpress

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

Support the show

The 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 Link
Website & Publications: www.therollingtape.com
Instagram: @therollingtape
X: @therollingtape
Letterboxd: @therollingtape

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