Paul Rai - THE ROLLING TAPE

July 5, 2023

NEWS 002: 2023 Midyear Review

The Rolling Tape reviews the first half of 2023 revealing each of our team member’s top 5 of the first six months. We look at the trends of th...

Reviews

July 4, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Dial of Destiny" Review: Final Indiana Jones Film Feels More Like an Imitation than an Adventure

There's a conflicting feeling with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), a film that attempts to give a heartwarming sendoff while co...

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June 17, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: "The Flash" Speeds Into A Turbulent Multiverse

We are in the era of multiverse storytelling. It is the dominant form in mass pop culture entertainment and in the MCU. It even has yielded a...

Essays

June 9, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Transformers:" A Franchise In Disarray

It's remarkable how much the Transformers film series has occupied the latter part of Michael Bay's career. It's even more impressive how ins...

Essays

May 31, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Top Ten Films To Not Win The Palme d’Or Since 2000

In terms of film festivals, Cannes is one of the most prestigious. Since its inception in 1946, the festival has gone through its own dramati...

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May 30, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"The Little Mermaid" Review: Disney Dives Back Into the Blue

There’s no doubt that Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989) had a far-reaching radical effect on Disney as a company that brought upon what many...

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April 25, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Beau is Afraid" Review: Beau Is A Pawn in Ari Aster’s Nightmare

Ari Aster has made his career creating horror films in which his main characters are pawns for far more sinister forces that manifest the nig...

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April 6, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

"Air" Review: What Makes A Dad Movie

The term "I know it when I see it" was coined by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when it came to identifying what obscene, pornographic ...

Essays

March 21, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

The Best Picture Winner Can Come From Anywhere

Near the end of the Oscar-winning Pixar animated feature, Ratatouille (2007), the steely, affluent food critic, Anton Ego, ends his transcend...

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February 7, 2023 · by Amritpal Rai

Riseborough Defines "To Leslie," Not The Oscar Nomination

So rare have film performances transcended cultural discourse than Andrea Riseborough’s recent Oscar-nominated work in To Leslie (2022). The ...

Essays

December 30, 2022 · by Amritpal Rai

Iñárritu: A Handful of Oscars, or (The Unexpected Honor of Being Divisive)

In a year in which so many legendary filmmakers have popped up on the cinematic landscape with the likes of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans ...

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December 7, 2022 · by Amritpal Rai

"GDT's Pinocchio" Review: Discovering Humanity in del Toro’s Stop-Motion Masterpiece

In 2022, we’ve had two adaptations of Pinocchio that have already made their marks in “interesting” spaces (the Pauly Shore dubbed straight-t...

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