Adam Patla - THE ROLLING TAPE

June 16, 2025

EP 143: The Life of Chuck (2025)

Last year’s TIFF people’s Choice Award winner is now in wide release from NEON, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck: A life-affirming, genre-ben...

The Rolling Tape

June 12, 2025

Bonus Review: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025)

For a bonus review this weekend on a weekend full of new releases and our main review settled on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, we’ve g...

RETRO//RANKED

June 11, 2025

RETRO//RANKED: Jurassic Park (1-2)

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on the Jurassic Franchise. To watch the full conversat...

The Rolling Tape

June 11, 2025

RETROSPECTIVE 023: Mike Flanagan

Ahead of Mike Flanagan’s latest film The Life of Chuck, we look back through his filmography which predominantly features many entries to the ...

The Rolling Tape

May 26, 2025

EP 140: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

Following up another franchise retrospective with Mission Impossible, we now trust Ethan Hunt one last time in our review of Mission: Impossib...

The Rolling Tape

May 12, 2025

EP 138: PFS SpringFest, Chicago Critics Film Festival & Friendship (2025)

For our main show, we’re recapping two festivals covered by TRT staff: Philadelphia Film Society’s SpringFest and the Chicago Critics Film Fes...

Reviews

May 8, 2025 · by Adam Patla

CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FEST: ‘It Ends’ is Alex Ullom’s Bright Beginning

One of the most exciting things about a film festival is the discovery of finding a film from a new artist and floating out of the theater kn...

The Rolling Tape

May 7, 2025

Summer 2025 Box Office Draft

With the summer movie season kicking off this weekend with Marvel's latest, Thunderbolts*, we’re taking a look at what's ahead for t...

Reviews

May 5, 2025 · by Adam Patla

CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FEST: The Dizzying and Delirious ‘Mr. K’

It may be because it was my third screening of the day and it started at midnight, but Tallulah Hazekemp Schwab’s Mr. K made me feel utterly ...

Reviews

May 4, 2025 · by Adam Patla

CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FEST: Alex Russell’s Haunting & Nuanced Debut ‘Lurker’

If you’ve spent more than ten seconds on social media, chances are you’ve encountered the feverish fan culture that’s seeped its way into our...

The Rolling Tape

April 21, 2025

EP 135: Sinners (2025)

After discussing Ryan Coogler’s career through his first four feature films, we review Sinners: trying to leave their troubled lives behind, t...

The Rolling Tape

April 9, 2025

RETROSPECTIVE 020: Ryan Coogler

Before our review of Sinners, we take a look back through the small but mighty career of Ryan Coogler through his four feature films, Fruitval...

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