Paul Rai - THE ROLLING TAPE

The Awards Tape

November 22, 2024

The Awards Tape: Best Picture Oscar Predictions

In the wake of our second draft above-the-line predictions, we are now kicking off our category-by-category series through all 21 awards for t...

The Rolling Tape

November 18, 2024

EP 111: Emilia Pérez (2024)

Following a Cannes World Premiere that resulted in two awards for a Jury Prize and Best Actress to the ensemble cast, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia...

The Awards Tape

November 7, 2024

The Awards Tape: Oscar Predictions 2024 Second Draft

With festival season now behind us and the field of contenders coming into a more clear picture, we follow up on our first draft predictions w...

The Rolling Tape

November 4, 2024

EP 109: Anora (2024)

After taking home the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and playing 35mm prints in limited release around the country, Sean Baker...

Reviews

November 1, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

'The Brutalist' Review: An Exemplarary Meditation of America's Institutes

From the damp, crowded, darkly lit hull of a ship – like Pinocchio confined inside the stomach of Monstro – The Brutalist (2024) opens on an ...

The Rolling Tape

October 14, 2024

EP 106: Saturday Night (2024)

LIVE FROM THE ROLLING TAPE ITS SATURDAY NIGHT! At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed tel...

Reviews

October 11, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: 'The Apprentice' is a Light Touch on a Complicated Figure

At the tail end of 2008, Oliver Stone’s W. painted a reflective portrait of President Bush as his second term ended and people were getting r...

The Rolling Tape

October 7, 2024

EP 105: Joker: Folie À Deux (2024)

Following the 2019 bombshell origin story that became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion, Todd Phillips returns to the world of ...

Reviews

September 27, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

'Crumb' 30th Anniversary - Unraveling the American Nightmare

No documentary has left me shaken to my core in terms of constructing a window into another life that is so separate from me, yet humanistic ...

Reviews

September 12, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Jeremy Saulnier's 'Rebel Ridge' is an Exceptional Thriller

De-escalation is the prevailing theme surrounding Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge (2024), which is a form of inversion to most of Saulnier’s wo...

News

September 8, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist Acquired by A24

A24 is crashing the Oscar race this Fall by acquiring the U.S. distribution rights for Brady Corbet’s American epic, The Brutalist (2024). Th...

Reviews

September 6, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: 'The Deliverance' Falls Short of Being Dramatic and Horrifying

Elements of horror run rampant in most of Lee Daniels's films, whether it's the ferocious nature of Mo’Nique as an abusive mother in Precious...

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