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Almost 2 months removed from the 97th Academy Awards, we’re taking a way-too-early first glance at the slate of potential contenders for the year ahead. We’ll evaluate films that could be priorities later in the year for major studios, the Cannes lineup as the first major festival in just a few titles, wild card independent titles that may still be looking for distribution, and anything in between that could potentially factor into the race for the 98th Academy Awards, featuring a newly minted 24th category for Best Casting.  

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Chapter Timestemps:

• 00:02:24 Academy Rules Updates
• 00:17:13 Q1 Oscar’s Prospects
• 00:38:25 Studio Priority Predictions
• 02:05:12 Wild Card Films without Distributors
• 02:08:07 First Draft Best Picture Ten Lineup

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Matt Neglia Next Best Picture

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

In a sequel to Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action thriller, The Accountant is back for tax season 2025 with The Accountant 2. Christian Wolff applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief's murder. The film stars Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J.K. Simmons, and Daniella Pineda.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:03:42 Initial Thoughts
• 0:16:18 Spoiler Review
• 1:22:34 Oscars Assessment
• 1:24:52 Final Ratings

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

Sacramento directed by Michael Angarano follows an energetic and free-spirited young man convinces his long-time friend, who's settled into domestic life, to go on an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento. We interview the editor and close collaborator to Angarano, Max Goldblatt on the collaboration process for developing and editing the film.

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

Heading into a review of the upcoming The Accountant 2, our team files their taxes with a live commentary of The Accountant, the 2016 action crime drama. As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.

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Nandita Joshi on Letterboxd, X, Instagram, TikTok, and Linktree

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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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Credits:

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

After discussing Ryan Coogler’s career through his first four feature films, we review Sinners: trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Initial Thoughts
• 0:23:56 Spoiler Review
• 2:19:48 Oscars Assessment
• 2:33:33 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Kam Ryan on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Empty Theater Podcast
Aryan Patel on Letterboxd, X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Nadia Arain on Letterboxd and Instagram
Sasha Raquel on Letterboxd, Instagram, and YouTube
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X

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• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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

In the second episode of The Rolling Remote, a new podcast series dedicated to television coverage where we discuss week-to-week television events and Emmy’s awards season coverage, we’re discussing Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus written and directed by Mike White. The series is a social satire following the exploits of various guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain, whose stay becomes affected by their various dysfunctions. A week in the life of vacationers unravels as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise; with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees, and the idyllic locale itself. This season stars Walton Goggins, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Carrie Coon, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Aimee Loud Wood, Natasha Rothwell, Leslie Bibb, Sam Nivola, Jon Gries, Parker Posey, and more.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:02:38 Initial Thoughts
• 0:14:56 Spoiler Review
• 1:46:31 Emmys Assessment

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Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Tate Fowler on Letterboxd and Instagram
Jake Fittipaldi on Letterboxd, Instagram, and TikTok

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

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

Almost exactly a year since the release of Civil War, Alex Garland returns with A24 to co-direct Warfare alongside Ray Mendoza. Warfare is described as follows: a platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event. The film stars D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, and Joseph Quinn.

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Initial Thoughts
• 0:23:01 Spoiler Review
• 1:27:37 Oscars Assessment
• 1:35:19 Final Ratings

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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Jacob Diedenhofer on Letterboxd, Instagram, X
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok

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Credits:

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

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Credits:

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

As the first step into a new season of potential award contenders, the Cannes Film Festival announced a partial lineup, with a majority of its in competition titles, for the 78th edition of the festival. The Cannes lineup gives us a glimpse into the pulse of global cinema and kickstarts the next awards season, and as such we unpack the announcements and give our first blind predictions for the prestigious Palme d’Or.

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Jacob Diedenhofer on Letterboxd, Instagram, X
Owen Wilczek on Letterboxd, and X

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• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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

Before our review of Sinners, we take a look back through the small but mighty career of Ryan Coogler through his four feature films, Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. After swapping release dates with Mickey 17, Sinners will be in wide release next week and we will discuss a preview of his latest. 

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Credits:

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

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

This past week we had one of the biggest events of the film industry’s news cycle in Cinema Con, the world’s largest gathering for the motion picture theater industry featuring major studios sharing their slate with theater owners for the rest of the year and beyond. We’ll discuss the panels and various announcements from the studios who presented including Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., Amazon, Universal, Disney, and Paramount.

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Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram
Jake Fittipaldi on Letterboxd, Instagram, and TikTok
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X

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

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Credits:

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