The Rolling Tape

Set against a war between humans and robots, today we are reviewing The Creator directed by Gareth Edwards starring John David Washington, Allison Janney, and Gemma Chan. We’re diving deep into the world of artificial intelligence, but I promise we’re all human today on this podcast.

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Gabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok
Carson Burton on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

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

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

With TIFF coming to a close, we recap the festival with our two press correspondents Matt Minton and Bryan Sudfield reviewing their experiences in Toronto with the films they saw and covered. We also begin to look ahead into awards season and cast our first early season predictions for Best Picture for the 96th Academy Awards. We will continue adding predictions for all 23 categories with each successive news episode.

Chapter Timestamps

• 0:00:00 TIFF
• 0:47:50 Best Picture Predictions

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Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, and Film Fragments
Matt Minton on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Gabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok
Evan Miller on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok

Films mentioned:
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Credits:

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

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

In 2021, a group on Reddit called Wall Street bets triggered a short squeeze on the stock of Gamestop, a company Wall Street believed was dying and bet against. We’re reviewing Dumb Money directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Paul Dano and Pete Davidson telling the story of this internet forum’s revolution against the hedge fund managers who lost billions in the process.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:07:12 Dumb Money Non-Spoilers
• 0:25:15 Dumb Money Spoilers
• 1:16:44 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Linktree
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

YogaSimpatico.com puts quality, therapeutically-inspired yoga, and wellness class at your fingertips! Whether you're a beginner, deepening an existing practice, or looking for a way to increase your mobility and reduce stress, you can choose from over 250+ classes and exercise when it’s convenient for you!

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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

Single day films utilize the technique of a closed period of time to tell their stories, often making time an additional character of the film creating a sense of urgency or embedding deadlines for the character’s lives and actions. We look at two films, La Haine (1995) and Do the Right Thing (1989) that utilize this technique to convey their impactful and interconnected themes and narratives.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:01:42 Double Feature Preface
• 0:13:02 Initial Thoughts 
• 0:27:45 Double Deep Dive
• 1:19:48 Final Ratings
• 1:28:36 Polls & Double Feature Pitches

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Linktree
Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

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Credits:

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

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Credits:

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

Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice features the return of the director/star as the enigmatic Hercule Poirot, the long-running Agatha Christie detective. This iteration features Poirot, now retired and exiled, who agrees to a case after witnessing a murder. We review the film through the canals and secrets of Venice while unraveling the mysteries of the latest case.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:12:32 A Haunting in Venice Non-Spoilers
• 0:39:55 A Haunting in Venice Spoilers
• 1:25:51 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Linktree
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Carson Burton on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Evan Miller on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

YogaSimpatico.com puts quality, therapeutically-inspired yoga, and wellness class at your fingertips! Whether you're a beginner, deepening an existing practice, or looking for a way to increase your mobility and reduce stress, you can choose from over 250+ classes and exercise when it’s convenient for you!

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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

Jen Markowitz is a Canadian film and television director and producer, whose feature documentary film debut Summer Qamp premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023. The documentary follows a camp in rural Alberta where queer, non-binary, and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counselors who can relate to their experience. Markowitz previously worked in documentary and reality television, including on the series Chris & John's Road Trip!, Intervention Canada, Vice Canada Reports, Canada's Drag Race, and Call Me Mother.

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Jen Markowitz on IMDb

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Matt Minton on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

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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

The 80th Venice Film Festival has come to a close to kick off the fall festival season and we’re recapping the awards, the highs, and the lows of this year’s edition. The Venice Film Festival often showcases thought-provoking storytelling from bold filmmakers and this year was no exception. Together we break down the Golden Lion winner, as well as cover some of the moments that left an impression on Venice audiences and are sure to have an impact on the upcoming awards season.

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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

Films mentioned:
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Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

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

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Credits:

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

In the ninth addition to The Conjuring franchise, The Nun prequel returns to see Sister Irene come face-to-face with a powerful force once again. We review The Nun II, a follow-up to the enigmatic gothic horror about an evil that haunts and causes supernatural harm to everybody it comes into contact with after the first film's events as the evil now begins to spread to 1956 France.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:12:31 The Nun II Non-Spoilers
• 0:41:49 The Nun Spoilers
• 1:42:04 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Linktree
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Carson Burton on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

YogaSimpatico.com puts quality, therapeutically-inspired yoga, and wellness class at your fingertips! Whether you're a beginner, deepening an existing practice, or looking for a way to increase your mobility and reduce stress, you can choose from over 250+ classes and exercise when it’s convenient for you!

Have questions? Email [email protected]

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

For the 25th double feature we take a look at one of the most integral components of filmmaking–sound in film. Sound has been a tool for filmmakers since the late 1920’s when silent films transitioned to talkies, and since then has evolved through creative applications and strategies as a storytelling device and an essential part of the audiovisual experience of film. We break down how filmmakers Fritz Lang and Darius Marder, respectively, utilize this tool in M (1931) and Sound of Metal (2019), two films created nearly 100 years apart.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:02:17 Double Feature Preface
• 0:13:07 Initial Thoughts 
• 0:26:28 Double Feature
• 1:19:35 Final Ratings
• 1:26:50 Polls & Double Feature Pitches

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Danny Jarabek on Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok
Eugene Rocco Utley on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

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

Support the show

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Credits:

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

Emma Seligman is back for her sophomore feature film effort with Bottoms, a high school queer sex comedy starring co-writer Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edibiri, Ruby Cruz, and Marshawn Lynch. If that introduction isn’t wild enough, you’re in for quite a 92-minute ride with one of the highest-rated comedies of the year, and the single best movie of the year to feature a queer fight club, as we review the film with guest Adam Patla.

Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:12:32 Bottoms Non-Spoilers
• 0:37:04 Bottoms Spoilers
• 1:38:03 Final Ratings

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Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Twitter, TikTok

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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and Twitter
Evan Miller on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok
Tate Fowler on Letterboxd and Instagram

Films mentioned:
Letterboxd list

YogaSimpatico.com puts quality, therapeutically-inspired yoga, and wellness class at your fingertips! Whether you're a beginner, deepening an existing practice, or looking for a way to increase your mobility and reduce stress, you can choose from over 250+ classes and exercise when it’s convenient for you!

Have questions? Email [email protected]

Credits:

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

Support the show

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Podcast Website Link
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Credits:

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