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Amritpal Rai

Awards Editor

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.

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Army of Darkness (1992)
2026-07-11

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…

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The Irishman (2019)
2026-07-03

“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.…

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Scary Movie (2026)
2026-06-05

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…

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Masters of the Universe (2026)
2026-06-05

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…

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The Thin Red Line (1998)
2026-05-24

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…

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Omaha (2025)
2026-05-18

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…

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Deep Water (2026)
2026-05-18

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…

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One True Thing (1998)
2026-04-27

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…

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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
2026-04-26

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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A Cry in the Dark (1988)
2026-04-26

Oscar nomination #8 for Best Actress Despite Meryl’s black bob looking oddly out of the place, this is such a deeply unsettling court room drama of innocence clashing with media spectacle…

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