Amritpal Rai
Amritpal is a 2017 Penn State graduate with a B.A. in English Composition and was raised as a young kid watching movies to analyze and a free-flow of creative ideas. He loves to express himself creatively but he loves writing and talking about films and what makes them unique and impactful. Born in the 90s, Amritpal grew up with cinema through horror and action (his dad, god bless him, wasn’t the best parent when it came to what he could watch but he grew up real quick through horror and loves him for it), and like any movie lover, he was the “movie guy” in a friend group. Currently, he is getting back to his roots in writing about film and the awards space and hopes to expand his horizon and focus on a creative writing project he can express his ideas through.
'Possible Love' is Another Dense, Enrapturing Masterpiece from Lee Chang-dong
From the Awards Editor: 2026 Venice Film Festival Awards Predictions
Review: '15/18 (A Place to Heal)' is a Well-Intentioned, Jumbled Social Drama
Review: Primetime Showcases an Unruly Robert Pattinson Blurring the Lines of Reality TV
Review: 'Wild Horse Nine' is a Melancholic Hilarious Tale of Regret Elevated by a Career-Best Performance
Checking in on the Awards Race: Can Netflix Actually Seal the Deal, This Time?
Review: 'Romería' is a Transportive Plunge into Carla Simón’s Memories
Milestone 30th Annual Fantasia Festival Promises the Best of Global Genre Storytelling
250 Years of the United States Through Film
Review: 'Stand Up' is Beautiful, Resilient Coming of Age Drama
Review: 'A Mosquito in the Ear' is a Heartfelt Family Drama of Miscommunication
The Awards Tape: 2027 Oscar Contenders Draft
EP 182: They Will Kill You (2026) & Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) & Final Girl Tier Ranking
The Awards Tape: The History of the Science Fiction Genre at the Academy Awards & Project Hail Mary Awards Assessment
EP 181: Project Hail Mary (2026) & The Best of Movie Characters Surviving in Space
The Awards Tape: Recap of the 98th Academy Awards (2026)
The Awards Tape: Recap of the 98th Academy Awards (2026) & 4th Annual TRT Award Winners
The Awards Tape: 98th Academy Awards (2026) Final Oscar Winner Predictions
The Awards Tape: State of the Awards Race & Precursor Recaps 2025-26 (DGA, BAFTA, PGA, ACE, SAG)
Live Commentary: 32nd Actor Awards (SAG) (2026)
RETRO//RECAP: Scream Franchise
Awards Season Draft: 2007-8
EP 177: How To Make A Killing, The Career of Glen Powell & This or That “Eat the Rich” Movies
Favorite film of the year, and I’m not sure anything will come close to it.
Read on Letterboxd ↗Possibly Bruce Campbell’s best performance in all three films. Ash is the immovable object in the unstoppable force of the Necronomicon and its powers, and Campbell is in true form…
Read on Letterboxd ↗“In a pantheon of masterpieces, no film from maestro Martin Scorsese has ever felt as painfully melancholic and nostalgically somber about the mysticism of America’s ethereal figures as The Irishman.…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Anna Farris and Regina Hall, innocent. They could read the phone book together as Cindy and Brenda and I’ll find a way to laugh because they’re so damn funny.We’re back…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Unironically, Jared Leto’s Skeletor is the most entertaining character, and it’s not even close.Remarkably boring and tedious to the point of inducing lethargy. There’s loads of charm surrounding the screen—sometimes…
Read on Letterboxd ↗A truly profound, achingly beautiful war film that allows you to sit, contemplate, and interrogate the images of war violence and the undertones of transcendentalism. Nature is an overarching guidance…
Read on Letterboxd ↗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…
Read on Letterboxd ↗I thought I had seen the light once the credits for The Strangers: Chapter 3, Renny Harlin’s ill-conceived, awfully bad horror trilogy, began. It pummeled me within the span of…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Oscar nomination #11 for Best Actress I think it’s too easy to have a reductive view of a Lifetime-esque drama involving a parent dying of cancer. Especially when there’s an abundance…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Oscar nomination #9 for Best ActressIt’s hard to not be charmed by a Mike Nichols comedy drama that works as both satirizing the manicured Hollywood sheen of pleasantries and phony…
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