The Rolling Tape

The 78th Emmy Awards are just a couple of weeks away, with the main ceremony airing Monday, September 14, and the Creative Arts Emmys taking place September 5 and 6. Half of The Rolling Tape team will be traveling around the globe between Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival, so we wanted to get one episode out the door before we depart discussing our predictions for what will win at this year's Primetime Emmys.
The last time we talked about the Emmys, we were reacting to the nominations, where shows like Widow's Bay, The Pitt, and DTF St. Louis led the nominations in Comedy, Drama, and Limited or Anthology Series, respectively. The Pitt ultimately led all programs with 25 nominations, followed by Hacks with 24 and Widow's Bay with 19. There were some major surprises along the way, including Cailee Spaeny missing a nomination for Beef and Task failing to receive a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. 
Famed actress and longtime Emmy favorite Mariska Hargitay will host the ceremony, which will air live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September 14. The ceremony has already generated some controversy, as the Television Academy has moved several categories out of the main primetime telecast and into the Creative Arts ceremonies. Among those are Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, as well as Directing and Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
With all of that in mind, we make our predictions for who will take home the biggest prizes at this year's Emmys.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Bobbi Miller
Adam Patla
Ethan Dayton
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Double feature day, The Rolling Tape’s 4-year anniversary, celebrating Dolly Parton, Peter Cullen, and Tim Curry (science fiction double feature anyone?). A lot on the table for this week’s episode as we look back on 4 years and 637 episodes of the podcast. We review two films in theaters, The Dog Stars and Coyote vs. Acme. 
The Dog Stars is directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller. The film stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, and Guy Pearce, and follows the survivors of a global flu pandemic. 
Coyote vs. Acme is directed by Dave Green, written by Samy Burch and stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, Tone Bell, Luis Guzmán, Martha Kelly, P. J. Byrne, Kenneth Choi, and John Cena, with Eric Bauza leading the voice cast. The film follows Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
Reflections of 4 years of The Rolling Tape podcast
Fjord trailer
Chris Hansen ad purchase ahead of Primetime
The Social Reckoning trailer live reaction
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Joshua Mbonu 
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In our second Women in Film Spotlight for Ladies Night, we delve into the career of Kelly Reichardt spotlighting two of her films: First Cow and The Mastermind. Both films reflect her unique storytelling style of slow cinema that challenges conventional narratives while exploring profound themes related to the human experience. First Cow transports us to the early 19th century, where a cook and a Chinese immigrant form an unlikely partnership to steal milk from a prized cow while The Mastermind introduces us to a failed architect who, despite having a family and a home, engages in a more ambitious heist of stealing art.
On this episode:
Sara Ciplickas
Claire May Lewis
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See our live Fantasy results here on our website.
We're taking a bit of a pause from our ongoing Oscar predictions to revisit the Oscar Contenders Fantasy Draft we started back in April. A group of us drafted films we believed would be major awards contenders, and we accumulate points based on each film's performance at the box office, critics' and audience reception, and the potential precursors and Oscar nominations they'll earn later in the season.
We each started with eight films during our initial draft on April 1. We followed that up with an episode on June 3, where we assessed the fallout from the Cannes Film Festival and how the reception there affected our picks. Some movies had been pushed to next year, so we decided to implement a convoluted system of trades. We dropped certain films we weren't confident in and introduced a system where portions of a film's point performance could be traded as assets in order to upgrade our rosters. We also added an additional film to everyone's draft, bringing each of us up to nine picks. 
This will be our final opportunity to upgrade our teams by drafting a new film and making more trades and exchanges to maximize our potential point values.
Once the drafts are locked, we won't be able to make any further changes. From there, we'll have to face the harsh realities of awards season and see how our picks actually perform. We won't know the final winner until Oscar nomination morning, when the final piece of the puzzle falls into place and we see which films receive nominations and how those nominations affect everyone's scores.
We'll touch base on the status of our picks throughout the season, but today is our last chance to spice things up, make some trades, and cause even more mayhem and headaches for everyone involved.
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Paul Rai
Gabe Lillianthal
Jacob Diedenhofer
Our teams after the last negotiations:

Gabe:
The Odyssey
Godzilla: Minus Zero
Wild Horse Nine
Disclosure Day
Werwulf
Avengers: Doomsday
Parallel Tales
I Love Boosters
Resident Evil
Danny:
Project Hail Mary
Dune: Part Three
Fjord
Josephine
Club Kid
The Social Reckoning
Fatherland
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Hope
Paul:
Digger
Possible Love
All of a Sudden
La Bola Negra
The Invite
Toy Story 5
Behemoth!
The Debut
Obsession
Jacob:
Paper Tiger 
Saturn Return
The Adventures of Cliff Booth
Michael
Tony
The End of Oak Street
Clarissa
Animals
Wildwood
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Instead of stepping inside the Insidious franchise this weekend with Insidious: Out of the Further, we’re switching it up here today because summer is winding down, and also we make the rules here. Rather than our typical review of one movie, we are reviewing four that have stood out to our team over the past couple of months that we have not talked about in-depth on prior review episodes, including Maddie’s Secret, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, and It Ends.
We’ll do this in a speed run format reviewing each in short 15-20 minute sections and wrap up by previewing the fall festivals including Venice, TIFF, and NYFF.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
Whalefall trailer
Wild Horse Nine Oscar prospects
Wildwood trailer live reaction
On this episode:
Adam Patla
Danny Jarabek
Joshua Mbonu
Mariana Fabian
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Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller