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We are back with a LIVE COMMENTARY WATCHALONG of a movie that you've been voting for on our Instagram stories over the past couple of weeks. After making it through our bracket of 16 contenders, we have a winner, and we're here to cash in that check. We're here to watch the movie. We're here to talk alongside the film. 
That film being Godzilla Minus One, the 2023 Japanese mega hit that is now delivering a sequel, Godzilla Minus Zero, that will be premiering at the New York Film Festival in just a couple of weeks.
Godzilla Minus One follows a kamikaze pilot plagued by survivor's guilt seeking redemption when a giant monster he failed to kill is transformed by radiation from atomic bomb tests and lays siege to post-war Japan.
We're talking big lizards here today. We covered Godzilla Minus One through its Oscar run a couple of years ago on its way to a Best Visual Effects win. We discuss everything from its box office success to musing on what we will see in the upcoming sequel. 
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Red Broadwell
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Zombies are an iconic feature of horror that have existed for almost a century, the earliest representation appearing in White Zombie (1932). However, how much do we really know about the roots of the zombie, where did they come from, and what does it tell us about our culture and our understanding of this trope?
In Black Zombie, writer and director Maya Annik Bedward explores these questions about the zombie, specifically its origin and reality, in relation to Haitian vodou culture. In an interview with The Rolling Tape, she discusses her experience in learning about the zombie, delving into Haitian vodou culture, representations of the zombie in Hollywood, and what she hopes audiences will walk away from the film with.
Black Zombie will be playing in select theaters on September 11.
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Maya Annik Bedward, IMDB, Website
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Mariana Fabian
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With Telluride wrapping up and Venice getting ready to deliver the Golden Lion, we are now previewing the Toronto International Film Festival. We have five team members who will be in attendance at the 51st edition of TIFF and today we discuss an in-depth look at the TIFF lineup and detail our schedules and priorities for what we want to see and do while in Toronto starting September 10. The lineup features 293 official selection titles, with Opening Night programmed with Siân Heder's Being Heumann.
Listen on Patreon for an extended pre-episode conversation where the team builds their schedules on tiffr.
On this episode:
Cameron Ritter
Nadia Arain
Jacob Diedenhofer
Kasey Dunifer
Evan Miller
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Just mere hours after A24 premiered their major festival venture in Primetime at the Venice International Film Festival, and a surprise screening of You Can See Everything at Telluride, we review their current theatrical release Onslaught. It’s not our first Adam Wingard joint, following up our April 2024 review of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Wingard has escaped the Monsterverse (for now) to return to his action slasher roots.
Onslaught is directed by Adam Wingard and written by Wingard and Simon Barrett. When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter. The film stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, Michael Biehn, Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Rebecca Hall.
We review the film and play a mini-game where each contestant guesses the top 24 rated A24 movies on Rotten Tomatoes.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
Artificial World Premiere at NYFF
Wild Horse Nine Venice reactions
La Bola Negra & Ink trailers
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Gabe Lillianthal
Joshua Mbonu 
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There were dogs. There were stars. There were dog stars. We read them. We watched them. And it’s time for our receipts. So welcome back to Read Receipts: A Big Screen Book Club from The Rolling Tape where each month we read a book and watch its onscreen adaptation. This month we read The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and watched the new film The Dog Stars from Ridley Scott. We’ll get into the differences between the two, what worked, what didn’t, and how we feel about this as an adaptation. So, spoilers ahead for both the book and movie.
Today’s episode is starring your host Kasey Dunifer, and returning book club member, Patrick Regal. The book is from 2012, written by Peter Heller. Heller is a novelist from Vermont, who attended the Iowa Writers workshop and has written a good dozen or so books but this is the first big, on-screen adaptation of one of his works.
The 2026 movie, The Dog Stars, is the latest release from director Ridley Scott who is no stranger to adaptations, with Blade Runner and The Martian, among others. The film stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Quallery and Guy Pierce.
On this episode:
Kasey Dunifer
Patrick J. Regal
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