Paul Rai - THE ROLLING TAPE

Reviews

November 28, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Priscilla" Review: Cailee Spaeny Shines in Sofia Coppola’s Biopic

Sofia Coppola's foundations are rooted in examining the inner lives of adolescent girls born in a world of class and privilege. In The Virgin...

The Rolling Tape

November 13, 2023

EP 061: The Holdovers (2023)

We’re getting into the Christmas spirit a little bit early this year, but don’t let Alexander Payne know that we all will be reviewing the war...

News

November 4, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Rye Lane Leads with 16 BIFAs Nominations

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) nominations were announced by hosts Susan Wokoma and Morfydd Clark on Thursday, November 2. Raine...

Reviews

November 1, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Pain Hustlers" Review: Emily Blunt Tries to Sell the Drama in David Yates’ Latest

“Sell me this pen,” a line spoken with eerie undertones at the end of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) punctuates the sad dyn...

The Rolling Tape

October 18, 2023

DOUBLE FEATURE 028: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966), The Power of the Dog (2021) & The Western Genre

The western is a genre most popular from the 1940s to 1960s that takes the frame to the vast and lawless American West, exploring a land amids...

Reviews

October 9, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: "The Exorcist: Believer" Circles The Drain of Sequel Hell

Horror legacy sequels are all the rage since David Gordon Green broke the bank with his trilogy of Halloween sequels that erased the timeline...

The Rolling Tape

September 25, 2023

EP 057: Dumb Money (2023)

In 2021, a group on Reddit called Wall Street bets triggered a short squeeze on the stock of Gamestop, a company Wall Street believed was dyin...

Reviews

September 22, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: "Dumb Money" Shorts Its Characters For Condensed Fun

January 2021 was certainly a seminal moment for Americans emerging from the hellscape year that was 2020. After battling a continuous once-a-...

The Rolling Tape

September 20, 2023

DOUBLE FEATURE 026: La Haine (1995), Do The Right Thing (1989) & The Single Day Film

Single day films utilize the technique of a closed period of time to tell their stories, often making time an additional character of the film...

News

September 18, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Netflix Acquires Linklater & Powell's Hit Man For $20 Million

Netflix continues its record-making streak of acquisitions out of the Toronto Film Festival, as they have secured the global rights of Richar...

The Rolling Tape

September 18, 2023

EP 056: A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice features the return of the director/star as the enigmatic Hercule Poirot, the long-running Agatha Chris...

Reviews

September 12, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"The Nun II" Review: A Quality Sequel That Improves the Scares

It’s been thirteen years since James Wan’s blockbuster horror sensation, The Conjuring (2013), scared the bejesus out of audiences and made j...

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