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The Marvels of Media Festival returns for its fifth year, taking place March 26–28, 2026 at the Museum of the Moving Image. The event continues its mission of celebrating and elevating autistic media-makers through free screenings, exhibitions, panels, and workshops. Founded by Josh Sapan, former CEO of AMC Networks for 25 years, responsible for hit shows including Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and The Walking Dead, among others, the festival creates a vital space for artists to showcase their work, connect with industry professionals, and build community. In this interview, Sapan is joined by festival programmer Miranda Lee, who brings her own perspective as an autistic creative, to discuss the festival’s growth, its impact, and what to expect from the festival moving forward.
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In our final episode of The Awards Tape for the 2025-26 awards season, we recap the Oscars as the 98th Academy Awards hav wrapped up as of March 15. We at The Rolling Tape began covering this back in April of last year, where we did our pre-Cannes predictions for the year, and it's continued consistently throughout festivals, awards ceremonies, and discourse involving ballet and cats. We recap the ceremony, this year's Oscar winners, and announce our 4th annual TRT Award Winners. 
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Paul Rai
Jacob Diedenhofer
Tate Fowler
Sara Ciplickas
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The Pitt is a medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle after the same group collaborate on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez. 
Each season of the series follows emergency department staff as they attempt to overcome the hardships of a single 15-hour work shift at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, all while having to navigate staff shortages and underfunding. Each episode covers approximately one hour of the work shift.
Today we are diving back in to the chaos of HBO's Emmy-award winning medical drama which returned earlier this year with its second season. Season One established the show's real time ER structure and introduced us to the staff working in one of the most chaotic emergency rooms on television. Season Two has kept that formula going, but has continued to raise the stakes significantly. We have some new doctors, new relationships. We have the hospital experimenting with AI systems. By the time we reach episode 10, the ER is in complete chaos with one of its most intense crises. Today we're breaking down those first ten episodes of Season Two of The Pitt. 
On this episode:
Jake Fittipaldi
Adam Patla
Bobbi Miller
Des Mack
Patrick Regal
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March has been a month of horror with last week’s conversation on The Bride! and movie monsters setting the stage for this week to dive into the paranormal with Ian Tuason’s directorial debut, undertone. Undertone premiered at Fantasia Festival on July 27, 2025, and was theatrically released in the US by A24 on March 13, 2026.
Today, we are calling all demonic spirits and paranormal skeptics while channeling the energy of the undertone podcast. The film stars Nina Kiri as Evy, a woman who hosts a paranormal podcast with her friend Justin played by Adam DiMarco, where she is the skeptic to his believer. After Evy moves back home to become the caregiver to her dying mother, she and Justin are sent recordings by a married couple experiencing paranormal noises in their home, drawing Evy into fear and paranoia.
We’ll discuss the film as well as look back at A24’s horror filmography by tier-ranking everything they have distributed in the genre.
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On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Adam Patla
Ethan Simmie
Joshua Mbonu
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It's been a whirlwind of a final awards season week as Oscar voting window has closed as of Thursday, March 5. We had online discourse about Timotheé Chalamet and ballet, Jessie Buckley and cats, but the exhaustion and what-if scenarios are coming to an end.
To help close out this season, we are doing our FINAL OSCAR PREDICTION winner episode together with the team, where we go through all 24 categories and give our final winner predictions ahead of the ceremony on Sunday, March 15. This is the biggest episode of the award season! 
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Danny Jarabek
Adam Patla
Jacob Diedenhofer
Joshua Mbonu 
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Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller