The Rolling Tape

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The Awards Tape is growing! With our Awards Editor and local Oscars encyclopedia, Paul Rai, at the helm, our Oscars-centric show is becoming a weekly podcast all year long.
Love is in the air as Valentine's Day is less than a week away and the hotly anticipated steamy romance, “Wuthering Heights”, will be the major wide release meant to appeal to everyone on Valentine's weekend. Because of that, this week’s discussion on The Awards Tape is about the relationship the romance genre has to the Oscars, what some of our favorite romance or romantic comedies are that have received awards recognition, and analyzing how the genre has transformed to meet the sensibilities of the modern Academy.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Danny Jarabek
Kam Ryan
Red Broadwell
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Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
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Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

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In a first for The Rolling Remote, our TV podcast series, we are talking about Industry, created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, that follows a group of young people just trying to survive in the world of high finance and investment banking.
The series first premiered in 2020 and, over four seasons, has steadily built a reputation as one of HBO's most compelling contemporary dramas. Across the first three seasons, the show gained traction through word of mouth and critical support rather than immediate hype, and now, in its fourth season, it feels like the series has finally reached a new level of visibility and interest.
Today's episode will be focused on Season Four, episodes one through five.
On this episode:
Jake Fittipaldi
Kasey Dunifer
Adam Patla 
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In the first edition of our newly formatted Monday episode of The Rolling Tape, we are discussing a new release, similar to what we have always done, while also expanding the conversation to include conversation on related industry topics and segments.
Today we’ll discuss Sirât as well as zoom out to NEON as a whole, unpacking the success of their 2025 slate while looking ahead to their upcoming releases in 2026. Stay with us as we also wrap up with a preview of February on what’s to come for our show as well as what we’ll see in theaters for the remainder of the month. Sirat's North American rights were acquired by NEON as part of their international acquisition spree. The film went on to become Spain’s submission to the Academy Awards where it was shortlisted in five categories and nominated for two Oscars for Best Sound and Best International Feature. 
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Gabe Lillianthal
Jacob Diedenhofer
Joshua Mbonu
Paul Rai
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With Nuisance Bear, filmmakers Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman return to Churchill, Manitoba — affectionately known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” — to deepen the inquiry begun in their award-winning short film in 2021. The result is a striking portrait of the fraught coexistence between polar bears and humans, guided by an Inuit narrator whose insights resist simplification. 
We are joined by the film's editor, Andres Landau, who also edited the short and has been involved with the story for seven years. Parsing over 700 hours of nature and narration footage, Andres and his team craft a beautiful exploration of the consequences when modern life and natural landscapes collide.
The film recently had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2026, winning the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition. 
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Apple TV+’s The Lost Bus is nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Academy Awards. We are joined by Special Effects Coordinator Brandon K. McLaughlin on the film to discuss his work. Starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, this visceral docudrama relives the 2018 Camp Fire that ravaged Paradise, California, following a bus driver and teacher racing to save 22 schoolchildren. 
Facing the challenge of recreating the deadliest wildfire in California history, Brandon spearheaded a seamless fusion of practical and visual effects. His team constructed six massive fire sets on a Santa Fe backlot, and collaborated with VFX supervisor Charlie Noble to ensure practical flames set the standard for digital effects, creating a fire that felt indistinguishable from reality, per Greengrass’s vision.
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Danny Jarabek
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Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller