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Welcome to October and award season! The major fall film festivals have wrapped up, from Venice and Telluride to TIFF and now the New York Film Festival. So many anticipated awards contenders have premiered, delivering receptions that have either surprised us or validated what we’ve been thinking about them all year.
We’ve seen the premieres of Wild Horse Nine, Elsinore, The Debut, I Play Rocky, Being Heumann, Behemoth!, and Artificial, among others. Meanwhile, theatrical studio films like The Social Reckoning and Digger have seen their awards-season momentum stall based on critical reception. 
As a result we're focusing on our Best Picture predictions this episode discussing the studios and films competing for the 10 slots and the state of our current predictions and on-the-bubble contenders.
The last time we did our Best Picture analysis was back in August with Dean Coburn, when we ran through our top predictions across the major Oscar categories. But now it’s time for a postmortem on festival season for what’s changed in our Best Picture lineup: what we’ve added, what we’ve dropped, and how our awards-season outlook has evolved.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Adam Patla
Danny Jarabek
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The Mommy Reckoning is here. Stepchildren, it's your time to shine. We're here to reckon with our childhood trauma and Instagram-induced body image issues.
In other news, our month-long double feature programming is continuing into week two with Other Mommy (not a sequel to Mommy) and The Social Reckoning (also supposedly not a sequel to The Social Network). 
In Other Mommy, Bela, an 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems, confronts a sinister entity which comes out of her closet. The presence, whom she calls "Other Mommy," becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family. Other Mommy is played by Jeremy Strong in the likeness of Mark Zuckerberg. Just kidding, or am I? 
The Social Reckoning follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
Rob Savage filmography
Artificial NYFF World Premiere 
The Exorcist: Martyrs trailer watchalong 
Our guest:
Derrick Murray
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Jacob Diedenhofer
Joshua Mbonu
Mariana Fabian
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As part of the TIFF Market Screening, Infinitely Dense follows a man who employs an augmented reality system to escape his lonely life, only to confront the dark consequences of bending reality to his will. We are joined by the director, Ace Thor, and actor, Glen Steele, to discuss their process behind making the film.
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Cameron Ritter
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Do I have your attention, or do I have the minimum amount?
We're talking about David Fincher's eighth directorial effort, The Social Network, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence, and Max Minghella. The film was adapted by Aaron Sorkin from the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
The Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, and went on to gross nearly $225 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. It received rave reviews from critics and audiences as it detailed the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and the dawn of a new era of capitalist media moguls controlling our information distribution and interpersonal communication in the digital age.
By the end of 2010, many considered it one of the best films of the year. It appeared on 78 critics' top-10 lists, with 22 critics naming it their number-one film overall. The film went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three awards: Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Even though it's only been 16 years, the legacy of the film has extended far beyond its initial impact, with many now deeming it one of the greatest films of the 21st century. And now, a companion film is coming out on October 9th called The Social Reckoning, written and directed by Sorkin himself.
The film stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong, who takes on the role of Mark Zuckerberg. In honor of The Social Reckoning's release, we're doing a retrospective dive into The Social Network as we talk about the film, how we feel about it, the careers of Fincher, Sorkin, and the actors following the film's success, and its awards history from starting out as the top contender to beat to ultimately becoming the film that lost Best Picture to The King's Speech.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Timmy Lee
Gabe Lillianthal
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In brightest day, in blackest night, no bad TV shall escape our sight. Let those who watch it day and night beware the power of The Rolling Remote’s light...
The Rolling Remote is The Rolling Tape’s official home for all things television and today we are talking about Lanterns, HBO’s new take on the iconic Green Lantern characters from DC Comics.
The series stars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, and Kelly Macdonald, and follows two Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, as they get pulled into a murder mystery in the American heartland.
The series comes from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, with Mundy serving as the showrunner. It’s also one of the first major pieces of the new DC Universe from DC Studios, so there are a lot of interesting and exciting implications that come from this series and could affect the wider DCU.
Now that we’ve seen the whole season, we’re here to talk about what worked, what didn’t work, where all of these characters end up, and what we think Lanterns means for the wider scope of superhero television.
On this episode:
Jake Fittipaldi
Kam Ryan
Timmy Lee
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