Paul Rai - THE ROLLING TAPE

Carson Burton

July 23, 2024

The Top Six Most Anticipated Films From Fantasia Fest

The Fantasia International Film Festival kicks off this week in Montréal, ushering in an exciting new slate of feature films and selected sho...

Paul Rai

July 3, 2024

Review: 'A Quiet Place: Day One' is a Thrillingly Emotional Prequel

Part of the allure of the disaster movie genre is allowing viewers to impart themselves within the chaos and anarchy of overwhelming events r...

Danny Jarabek

June 20, 2024

RETROSPECTIVE 005: Yorgos Lanthimos

Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos is known for the absurd worlds his characters inhabit laying forth unsettling questions of social norms. Coming...

Danny Jarabek

June 12, 2024

RETROSPECTIVE 004: Pixar Animation Studios ft. Adam Patla

Pixar is one of the most prominent animation studios working today with 27 feature films, 23 Academy Awards, and since the award’s inaugurati...

Bryan Sudfield

June 5, 2024

RETROSPECTIVE 003: Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater’s next film, ‘Hit Man,’ is currently out in limited theatrical release before dropping on Netflix on June 7. Before we revi...

Paul Rai

April 23, 2024

Review: Snyder's ‘Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver’ is a Vacant Exhibition

For a year at the movies that include Dune: Part Two (2024), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Twisters (2024), and Joker: Folie à Deux (2024),...

Paul Rai

April 16, 2024

Review: ‘The First Omen’ Makes You A Believer

On June 6th, 2006, my father and I walked into a theater to watch The Omen (2006), a remake of the Richard Donner classic. Once it was over, ...

Danny Jarabek

April 10, 2024

RETROSPECTIVE 001: Alex Garland

Alex Garland’s next film, Civil War, comes out in theaters this upcoming weekend. But before we review his latest effort, we take a look back...

Paul Rai

April 2, 2024

Review: 'Asphalt City' Pummels You Into Wretched Submission

The first ten minutes of Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Asphalt City (2024) begins with Tye Sheridan’s Ollie Cross, a rookie EMT, awakening from a ...

Paul Rai

April 1, 2024

Review: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Is Dumb Enough to Be Fun

It’s both a blessing and a curse that Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) should come out after the historic Oscar win for ...

Paul Rai

March 24, 2024

Review: Nostalgia Chillingly Decays in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

There’s a line from Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) when Annie Potts’s Janine greets Carrie Coon’s Callie Spengler, Callie asks if the house s...

Paul Rai

March 23, 2024

Review: 'Late Night With The Devil' Catapults Dastmalchian to Infamy

From his screen debut in The Dark Knight (2008), David Dastmalchian has thrived playing creeps, criminals, and deranged sad individuals in wh...

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