"Roll Bounce" spins an endearing but wildly uneven coming-of-age drama set against the popular '70s phenomenon of "jam skating." Funky disco-era throwback never fully jells with a surprisingly intense ...

Teen pictures in which kids square off in a competition form a genre unto themselves, yet the warm and wise “Roll Bounce” confounds all expectations. Writer Norman Vance Jr. and director Malcolm D.

“I look at it a lot like any time I get a script I look at it a lot even with this film in particular,” remarked Bow Wow at the time to BlackFilm. Take a look at the Roll Bounce 20th anniversary ...

Director Malcolm Lee made a name for himself with The Best Man and Undercover Brother. His new film, Roll Bounce, is set in the golden era of 1970s roller-skate jams. It's a coming-of-age comedy ...

Instead those honors go to Parliament’s 1977 funk classic “Flash Light,” the Afro-picked Xavier “X” Smith (Bow Wow, three years removed from dropping the “Lil’”) singing over George Clinton and ...

There's more stuff going on in the '70s roller boogie comedy-drama-romance "Roll Bounce" than there are mirrored panels on a disco ball. Crammed with enough real-life traumas and feel-good turnarounds ...

“Roll Bounce” is for everybody holding on to fond memories of that late ‘70s teen craze roller disco. Both of you. But for a sentimental trip down a Memory Lane most of us have barricaded shut — no ...

Roller boogie is back in this disco-era flashback, a shamelessly familiar concoction of dramatic cliches that recalls everything from "Saturday Night Fever" to "Strictly Ballroom" to "Bring It On." ...

A title like Roll Bounce doesn t inspire confidence. It sounds like some bizarre drug reference, or maybe a much-unwanted sequel to Booty Call, or a feature-length ad for a new fabric softener. But it ...