Apologies everyone, there’s been a slight shift in programming. Hayden Christensen backed out of his guest spot for this episode. He told us he was down to make a guest appearance, but sent a text backing out at the last second saying, “I don’t like podcasts. They’re long and rough and irritating, and they get […]
RETRO//RECAP is a spin-off series from RETRO//RANKED where we hit pause on the rankings and rewind the tape to catch you up on everything that’s happened in a franchise or filmography before the next entry hits theaters. Last time, we dove into the Scream franchise, but today we’re trading in the knives for Dolce & Gabbana in the […]
It’s another year and you know what that means, another music biopic. This weekend saw the release of Michael, the latest of the popular trend of famous musician biographies hitting the big screen, this time focused on the early life and 80s peak of pop star Michael Jackson. The first thought for many Oscar pundits’ brains […]
Sony Pictures announced an upcoming animated film set in the universe of FromSoftware’s critically acclaimed 2015 game “Bloodborne.”
We are finally stepping outside of our usual HBO bubble at The Rolling Remote because today we’re heading to Netflix to talk about Beef Season 2. If you’re not familiar with Beef, it’s a Netflix anthology series created by Lee Sung Jin. At its core, it’s about conflict, something usually small, impulsive, almost meaningless, that spirals into something way […]
Underneath all the slime and horror of Slither at 20, it has all the traits and qualities of Gunn that kicked off a career that started with alien worms possessing a town and culminated in the world’s greatest hero.
Road trip movies often have a rhythmic dance between the intimate and the claustrophobic nature of being confined in a hunk of metal on wheels. There’s a weighted tension of being surrounded by palpable emotions from friends and family, contrasted with the vast, open space of the American landscape. It’s the backdrop for Cole Webley’s […]
Consider it a music festival weekend here on The Rolling Tape podcast because we’re discussing both real and fake pop stars alike with Michael, Lionsgate’s long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua and Mother Mary, A24’s deconstruction of its titular fictional music icon directed by David Lowery. Michael follows the life of the American singer Michael Jackson, […]
Well, I’m elated to report that Kika (2025), which had its New York Premiere at the New Directors/New Films festival this past weekend, blows its mother-centric predecessors out of the water with a star-turning performance by Manon Clavel in the titular role.
In his first venture behind the camera, John Early delivers on fans’ anticipation of the two co-starring in the absurd yet heartfelt Maddie’s Secret.
The trite blandness of nearly every aspect of Michael isn’t new in the never-ending churning of the modern biopic, but it’s so willing to do and say nothing potentially intriguing about the real-life pop star that it represents a new frontier of corporate sludge.
So it’s hard not to wonder what Damian McCarthy is getting at by titling his latest film Hokum. Is it a wink at the horror genre’s most overused conventions? A self-aware embrace of jump scares, haunted hotels, and folklore? Or is it something less intentional, a film that occasionally falls into the very traps it might be gesturing towards? The answer, frustratingly (and interestingly), is somewhere in between.
oining the lineup of fictional pop stars is Mother Mary, written and directed by David Lowery. Known for A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, Lowery wouldn’t necessarily be the first person one thinks of when it comes to female pop stars. But his esoteric, auteur-driven sensibilities enable him to flip the pop script on its head and examine stardom in a way that sets him apart from his peers.
We are off to the pod races!!! For Season 6, Episode 2 of RETRO//RANKED, we are jumping into hyperspace across the outer rim of the galaxy, and weesa dive into the Sarlac Pitt today… Welcome to another episode of RETRO//RANKED, the Rolling Tape podcast series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we […]
At 81 years old, he’s still going strong every week with the show, regardless of how unpredictable the show’s outcome can be. Lorne understands Lorne, the man, the myth, the legend, as much as any of us ever will.
