The Rolling Tape

Low-class urban bitches it’s time to boost because after its premiere at SXSW on March 12, 2026, NEON has theatrically released Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters on May 22. We’ll review the San Francisco-adjacent anticapitalist satire before shifting gears through some post-production magic over to a LIVE COMMENTARY of the Cannes closing award ceremony that saw Fjord take home the Palme d'Or. 
I Love Boosters follows a group of shoplifters taking aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price. The film stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore.
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Mariana Fabian
Paul Rai
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As the Cannes Film Festival rages on toward the end with premieres and social reactions flooding our feeds, The Awards Tape is shifting gears for a week to a new area of focus for the show, the Emmys. At the time of this recording, there are two weeks left in the window eligibility for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards for 2026. The nominations will be announced on July 8th, with the ceremony taking place on September 14th. 
It's a new chapter for the Awards Tape as Oscar season is in deep slumber before the Fall festivals commence. We have the Emmys to occupy our awards punditory minds for the time being. We break down, in a broad general sense, what we could see nominated at the upcoming Emmy Awards between Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best Limited Series, and the respective major acting categories. Joining Paul, we bring in two of our most dedicated TV watchers on The Rolling Tape team to help share their early predictions.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Jake Fittipaldi
Adam Patla 
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For her first feature film, Le Triangle d’or, presented in the Special Screenings section at Cannes 2026, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz joins Nandita Joshi live from the festival to discuss her work on the film. Going back to her last short, Mambo Queens, Rosselet-Ruiz's often interrogates the intersection of femininity and class struggle, which present themselves as major themes of her first feature.
To make ends meet, Laura takes a job working for Souria in a grand mansion in Paris’s Golden Triangle. Installed there by her lover, a wealthy Saudi prince, Souria lives in anticipation of his visits. As Laura struggles to adjust to this world of excessive luxury and constant surveillance, a fragile bond begins to form between the two women. But Laura senses that Souria is in danger, and that this gilded cage may be closing in on them both.
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Nandita Joshi
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After her first two features, Relic and Apartment 7A, Natalie Erika James has cemented herself as a regular name to watch within the horror space. James is an Australian filmmaker, and Saccharine is not only her third feature film but also her second to have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. James often centers her filmmaking in horror around the dread and atmosphere of environments rather than jump scares, making for some incredibly chilling sequences, but Saccharine combines both her strengths in the horror space alongside new elements of body horror and comedic filmmaking, which makes for arguably her most intriguing feature yet. 
Joshua Mbonu sat down with the writer/director to discuss nearly everything surrounding her latest feature and where she thinks Saccharine will differentiate itself from other horror films that have tackled similar themes.
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Natalie Erika James IMDb, Instagram, Website
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Joshua Mbonu 
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Mariana Fabian joins director Jeremy Seifert for the Mountainfilm Festival premiere of Paper Town, a film that follows a paper mill that defined Canton, North Carolina, announcing its sudden closure. Filmed in real time, its is a raw look at a town blindsided by corporate silence and suspicious profit. As shock turns to anger, the people of Canton must navigate the wreckage of an industry that shaped their past and now threatens their future. 
Seifert is an award-winning film director, cinematographer and editor whose documentaries have premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, Tribeca and AFI DOCS. He co-directed The Devil We Know, a 2018 Sundance documentary in competition and Netflix premiere. His short documentary The Church Forests of Ethiopia (Mountainfilm 2020) premiered with The New York Times Op-Docs, followed by Ark of the Apocalypse (Mountainfilm 2021), which explores certain interpretations of the Bible that foretell an apocalypse and what that means for our world today. Seifert also co-directed God’s Plant (Mountainfilm 2021) alongside Malek Asfeer. He is the co-director of Papertown and A Mystical Ornithology (both Mountainfilm 2026), alongside Benjamin James Roberts. His films GMO OMG and Dive! Living Off America’s Waste won over 30 awards at festivals around the world, and both debuted on Netflix.
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Jeremy Seifert IMDb, Instagram, Website
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Mariana Fabian
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Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller