The Rolling Roulette is a brand-new podcast series from The Rolling Tape! Each month, fate takes the wheel as our team members are randomly paired together to exchange film recommendations based on a central theme. For the month of January, the theme was “New-Year Noir.” Landon Defever and Cameron Ritter discuss Brick and One False Move.Listen […]
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s creative partnership ages like the finest of wines. Since bursting onto the scene with Superbad (2007), the two delivered a wide array of raucous and raunchy comedies that embrace the ever-evolving culture. While they actively seek to push buttons, they also understand that comedy changes with the times. In fact, […]
Over the last few years, there has been a surge of films centered around strong-minded, complex female characters set in India receiving critical acclaim and widespread admiration. Laapataa Ladies (2023), Santosh (2024), and All We Imagine As Light (2024) are just a few examples. While it has gotten better over time, India still struggles with […]
In Disney’s new-found tradition of yanking iconic animated characters out of the vault and regurgitating them as live-action features, Snow White is the seventh Disney Princess to reenter the theaters. Adapted from Walt Disney’s first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the studio arguably faced its biggest challenge yet by reimaging one […]
After our retrospective discussing Disney live-action remakes, we review Disney’s latest bringing the classic fairytale of Snow White back to the screen. A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen. A live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” […]
Midway through the film Opus (2025), directed by Mark Anthony Green, Ariel Acton (Ayo Edebiri) asks the 90s pop legendy Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich) something to the effect of, “What’s the point of all of this?” In the scene before, Ariel and Alfred had watched a man in indigo-blue clothing shuck oysters in a flame-colored […]
Everyone has one special Disney animated feature film that reinvigorates the child-like wonder into their lives, remembering precisely where they were watching it for the first time and how it made them feel. Often these become special and formative experiences of growing up, finding parts of ourselves within these worlds. Upon rewatch, it brings them […]
The musician-to-film director pipeline is prevalent in the entertainment industry, spanning generations and perspectives. Figures primarily known for their music, such as Prince, Questlove, and Ice Cube, have made the jump to directing shorts, documentaries, and feature films, all with their own stories to tell. Fresh off its premiere out of SXSW this past weekend, […]
After the box office success of Avengers: Endgame in 2019, The Russo Brothers were on top of the world. They reaped billions of dollars, galvanized the last form of movie monoculture before COVID shuttered movie theaters, and achieved the decade-long plan of Marvel’s three-phase strategy. At the same time, Martin Scorsese made comments that compared […]
Before our review of Snow White, we look back through the live-action remakes of Disney classics. From Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, Disney has continued to bring their animated classics to new audiences through live-action and photorealistic techniques. Although not always warmly received, the films garner significant box office and cultural attention. Snow White is […]
I can’t tell you what a joy it is to be blessed with two (2) Steven Soderbergh films in the first quarter of 2025. He kicked off the year with his experimental horror film Presence and is already back with the best film of the year so far in Black Bag. The film follows married […]
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are often referenced as some of the most challenging conditions on both the person with the condition themselves and their family. Trying to navigate through the often rapid declines, as both the person with dementia and as the caretaker/family, is difficult. Banr, the directorial debut from Erica Xia-Hou, follows a family trying […]
In a weekend jam-packed with new releases, our team selected Opus directed by Mark Anthony Green. A writer travels to the compound of a pop icon who disappeared years ago. Surrounded by his cult of sycophants, as well as a group of fellow journalists, she soon discovers his twisted plans for the gathering. The film […]
Ireland is having its moment. Some of Hollywood’s current top A-listers hail from the small nation of around five million. Whether it’s Andrew Scott on Broadway, Colin Farrell on your television, or Saoirse Ronan on the big screen, it is almost impossible to not catch wind of an Irish celebrity in our current pop culture […]
As a lifelong fan of Looney Tunes, I’ve found the ways Warner Brothers has been treating its iconic characters as of late disheartening, to say the least. Since the company merged with Discovery to become Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) in 2022, CEO David Zaslav has shelved several high-profile projects to obtain tax write-offs that would […]
