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It's been a hot minute since we've done a pulse check in the Awards Race, with the last time we recorded being over a month ago on January 25th. It was our post-Oscar nominations recap with Cole Curtiss from the Oscars Model offering his insight and reactions, but so much has happened since then. The BAFTA Awards ceremony, the Directors Guild, and the Producers Guild of America have awarded their respective winners. 
We also reacted live to The Actor Awards (SAG), and at the time of publication, we're 11 days away from the 98th Academy Awards. We recap everything that's happened in the awards race while sharing our updated predictions in contentious categories.
Although we recorded the episode before The Actor Awards, we also add an appendix based on the results of SAG at the end of the episode. 
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Jacob Diedenhofer
Danny Jarabek
Adam Patla
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We react live to the 2026 Actor Awards (formerly known as SAG Awards) as they were streamed on Netflix with host Kristin Bell. Just hours beforehand, we recorded a "State of the Race" episode for The Awards Tape with prediction scenarios for all possible outcomes at SAG. We briefly reassess our predictions at the end of the show. One of the last major steps before the Oscars, we now have our SAG winners!
On this episode:
Adam Patla
Danny Jarabek
Gabe Lillianthal
Jacob Diedenhofer
Kam Ryan
Owen Wilczek
Paul Rai
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Artwork: Danny Jarabek
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Today we are going back in time to reanimate film history in 1935 with Bride of Frankenstein. Nearly a century later, we’re discussing Universal’s horror film which was the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride was directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. Additionally, it features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride, Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius, and Oliver Peters Heggie as the blind hermit. We’ll also preview what’s to come in horror for the remainder of 2026.
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Red Broadwell
Matthew Allen
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It’s officially time for Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling Tape! Every month, we will read a book that has been adapted for the screen… then we’ll share our receipts: What worked? What didn’t? Did we enjoy the adaptation more? Or the source material? Lots to unpack, and lots of movies to explore, as adaptations become more and more popular on the big screen.
Our Read Receipts host is Kasey Dunifer, an avid reader, chronic watcher, and lover of comparing the two art forms. So if you like books, or you like movies, or if you like books AND movies, you’re in the right place, and welcome to the club!
First up: this month, we read the 1847 classic novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and watched the 2026 film adaptation *quote unquote* “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
On this episode:
Kasey Dunifer
Adam Patla
Danny Jarabek
Sara Ciplickas
Jake Fittipaldi 
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Welcome to RETRO//RECAP, the spin-off of RETRO//RANKED where we hit pause on the rankings and rewind the tape to catch you up on everything that’s happened in a franchise or filmography before the next entry hits theaters. This time, we’re diving into the Scream franchise which began in 1996 with the late director Wes Craven and has seen 3 sequels also directed by Craven before Scream 5 and 6 rebooted the slasher franchise after his death. We talk through all the stab wounds, Stab movies, and Ghostface killers this franchise has seen ahead of Scream 7 set to release in theaters on February 27. 
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Paul Rai
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Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller