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It is time for our May READ RECEIPTS, a big screen book club from The Rolling Tape led by Kasey Dunifer! Every month, we read a book that’s been adapted for the screen, then we share our receipts. 

So if you like movies, or books, or movies AND books, you’re in the right place — and welcome to the club! 

Today we are talking about something a bit different. Instead of a film adaptation, it is a TV adaptation. We’re discussing MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, the 2024 novel by Rufi Thorpe, which has recently been adapted into a series for Apple TV plus starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Offerman and created by David E. Kelly.

We discuss everything from the fantastical and whimsical elements of the show including the costuming and intro sequence to the challenging circumstances Margo undergoes as a mother trying to make ends meet and get by with her unconventional family and friends. 

On this episode:
Kasey Dunifer
Jake Fittipaldi
Sasha Raquel

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
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The 79th Cannes Film Festival has come to an end, the Competition awards have been handed out, people have stood and clapped to their heart's content, and some of the most exciting films have debuted on the international scene.

It was a first for The Rolling Tape to be live on the ground at the Palais as our Co-Editor-in-Chief Danny Jarabek and our amazing contributor Nandita Joshi trekked to the festival and consumed cinema like no one else. A lot of sleepless nights, a lot of early morning battle royales for online film tickets, and lots of movies to discuss. 

Now that they have returned, we provide a formal recap of the festival from what's it's like to be in Cannes to a detailed rundown of all the films we saw as a team. 

On this episode:
Paul Rai
Danny Jarabek
Nandita Joshi

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• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

The regional spring festivals around the country in late April and early May are a great check-in on a bucket of titles ranging from second screenings of Sundance and SXSW premieres from earlier in the year to undistributed titles from the previous year’s fall festival cycle. The Rolling Tape was in attendance and today we’re road tripping from Philadelphia to Chicago to Seattle to discuss our experiences across three festivals. 

Des attended the Seattle International Film Festival for the first time, Adam Patla attended the Chicago Critics Film Festival for the second time and first joined by Jacob Diedenhofer, and Danny Jarabek attended PFS SpringFest for the fourth time.

On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Adam Patla
Jacob Diedenhofer
Des Mack

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• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Low-class urban bitches it’s time to boost because after its premiere at SXSW on March 12, 2026, NEON has theatrically released Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters on May 22. We’ll review the San Francisco-adjacent anticapitalist satire before shifting gears through some post-production magic over to a LIVE COMMENTARY of the Cannes closing award ceremony that saw Fjord take home the Palme d'Or. 

I Love Boosters follows a group of shoplifters taking aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price. The film stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore.

On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Mariana Fabian
Paul Rai

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• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

As the Cannes Film Festival rages on toward the end with premieres and social reactions flooding our feeds, The Awards Tape is shifting gears for a week to a new area of focus for the show, the Emmys. At the time of this recording, there are two weeks left in the window eligibility for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards for 2026. The nominations will be announced on July 8th, with the ceremony taking place on September 14th. 

It's a new chapter for the Awards Tape as Oscar season is in deep slumber before the Fall festivals commence. We have the Emmys to occupy our awards punditory minds for the time being. We break down, in a broad general sense, what we could see nominated at the upcoming Emmy Awards between Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best Limited Series, and the respective major acting categories. Joining Paul, we bring in two of our most dedicated TV watchers on The Rolling Tape team to help share their early predictions.

On this episode:
Paul Rai
Jake Fittipaldi
Adam Patla 

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• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

For her first feature film, Le Triangle d’or, presented in the Special Screenings section at Cannes 2026, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz joins Nandita Joshi live from the festival to discuss her work on the film. Going back to her last short, Mambo Queens, Rosselet-Ruiz's often interrogates the intersection of femininity and class struggle, which present themselves as major themes of her first feature.

To make ends meet, Laura takes a job working for Souria in a grand mansion in Paris’s Golden Triangle. Installed there by her lover, a wealthy Saudi prince, Souria lives in anticipation of his visits. As Laura struggles to adjust to this world of excessive luxury and constant surveillance, a fragile bond begins to form between the two women. But Laura senses that Souria is in danger, and that this gilded cage may be closing in on them both.

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Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz IMDb, Instagram

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Nandita Joshi

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• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

After her first two features, Relic and Apartment 7A, Natalie Erika James has cemented herself as a regular name to watch within the horror space. James is an Australian filmmaker, and Saccharine is not only her third feature film but also her second to have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. James often centers her filmmaking in horror around the dread and atmosphere of environments rather than jump scares, making for some incredibly chilling sequences, but Saccharine combines both her strengths in the horror space alongside new elements of body horror and comedic filmmaking, which makes for arguably her most intriguing feature yet. 

Joshua Mbonu sat down with the writer/director to discuss nearly everything surrounding her latest feature and where she thinks Saccharine will differentiate itself from other horror films that have tackled similar themes.

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Natalie Erika James IMDb, Instagram, Website

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Joshua Mbonu 

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Mariana Fabian joins director Jeremy Seifert for the Mountainfilm Festival premiere of Paper Town, a film that follows a paper mill that defined Canton, North Carolina, announcing its sudden closure. Filmed in real time, its is a raw look at a town blindsided by corporate silence and suspicious profit. As shock turns to anger, the people of Canton must navigate the wreckage of an industry that shaped their past and now threatens their future. 

Seifert is an award-winning film director, cinematographer and editor whose documentaries have premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, Tribeca and AFI DOCS. He co-directed The Devil We Know, a 2018 Sundance documentary in competition and Netflix premiere. His short documentary The Church Forests of Ethiopia (Mountainfilm 2020) premiered with The New York Times Op-Docs, followed by Ark of the Apocalypse (Mountainfilm 2021), which explores certain interpretations of the Bible that foretell an apocalypse and what that means for our world today. Seifert also co-directed God’s Plant (Mountainfilm 2021) alongside Malek Asfeer. He is the co-director of Papertown and A Mystical Ornithology (both Mountainfilm 2026), alongside Benjamin James Roberts. His films GMO OMG and Dive! Living Off America’s Waste won over 30 awards at festivals around the world, and both debuted on Netflix.

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Jeremy Seifert IMDb, Instagram, Website

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Mariana Fabian

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• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

In a galaxy far, far away...we started our Star Wars journey long ago. Since then, we have encountered the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, theatrical spin-offs, and now, at last, the final episode to cap off our rankings. We rank the 2 most recent Star Wars theatrical releases: Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. These are two of the more controversial Star Wars entries, which create a fun conversation to close out our Season 6 rankings. 

We’ve made it to another season finale of RETRO//RANKED, The Rolling Tape network series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. 

Today, for the last time, we talk about Star Wars leading up to the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu. It’s so close, I can taste it. And it tastes like capitalism.

Our current collaborative ranking so far:

1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
6. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
7. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
8. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
9. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

On this episode:
Evan Miller
Ethan Simmie

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Ceniza en la Boca had its World Premiere at Cannes 2026 in the Special Screenings section of the festival. The film is directed by Diego Luna and described as follows: Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they finally arrive, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than Lucila had imagined. Still, she is determined to make the most of this fragile new life.

We are joined by actresses Adriana Paz & Anna Díaz to discuss their work and relationship to the source material.

Read our review here.

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Adriana Paz IMDb, Instagram
Anna Díaz IMDb, Instagram

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Nandita Joshi

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Credits:

• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller