Robert Hamer
Formerly an associate writer for the now-retired Awards Circuit, Robert Hamer has returned to obsessively writing about movies and crusading against category fraud instead of going to therapy. Join him, won't you, in this unorthodox attempt at mental alleviation?
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in Op-edOn the Spring Radar…
Congratulations to Sean Baker on his big night at the Oscars! I have to admit, as much as I mostly like him as a filmmaker, it feels a little weird seeing someone win four Academy Awards for a single movie. I just don’t think that many trophies should be showered on just one person for […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Best Performances in Horror From 2024
Sorry for the delay, folks. I’ve been traveling around another continent for the last several months and I didn’t want to put out this list without seeing all the major horror releases of 2024. Now that I have, I’m ready to share my top five favorite performances from what I was finally able to catch […] More
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Top Ten “Right Nominee, Right Year, Wrong Film” Performances
Congratulations to Sebastian Stan on his first Academy Award nomination! He has come a long way since his breakout role as Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his achievement here caps off a stellar year for him. His fans are understandably happy to see his success here with a role that posed quite […] More
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A Place, and a Man, Both Wonderful and Strange
You know about death, that it’s just a change, not an end. Twin Peaks was, and is, a show invincible to the ruinous clickbait analysis of modern internet explainers and “Plot Breakdown” dorks who want to gaslight us into believing stories are puzzles meant to be solved. But that was what made David Lynch such […] More
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Mark Eydelshteyn’s Biggest Awards Obstacle (is not the spelling of his name)
Note: Spoilers ahead for Anora and Fish Tank. Because of the L.A. wildfires – please help if you can – the announcement of the Academy Award nominees has been pushed back to this Thursday. We are likely to see an impressive haul for films like The Brutalist, Conclave, Wicked: Part 1, and (ugh, god help […] More
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Sunday Scaries: There’s Been a… Slight Misuse… of the Satire
The more it sits with me, the more I like The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s brazen, in-your-face, gruesome satire of… well, a lot of things. Some of which works and some which doesn’t, but the messy reflection of the writer/director’s own sense of aggrievement at the result of unfair patriarchal standards – including how those standards […] More
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On the Early ‘WTF’ Year Radar…
Did you know 2025 is a ‘WTF’ Year? That’s a year that begins on a Wednesday, making the acronym of the first three days of the year, literally, “W,” “T,” and “F.” Some superstitious folks would have you believe that this is a bad omen for the year, but that’s just silly. The last few […] More
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On the December Radar…
Coming off of what was probably the single most awkward and regrettable Thanksgiving dinner of our lives, as well as a failed attempt to replicate a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon, we have one more month of 2024 theatrical releases to go. These are coming out as the next awards campaign season heats up, but pretty much […] More
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Ranking the Top Ten Best Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000
It really cannot be stressed enough how influential Mystery Science Theater 3000 was, and how it presaged so much of modern popular entertainment that still persists to this day. Despite all the ways in which distribution models, technology, and generational sensibilities have changed over the last thirty-five years, the notion of just parasocially “hanging out” […] More
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Drop a Bomb, and It Falls on the Just and the Unjust
Over the last few days, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Oppenheimer, the ambitious, epic-scaled, apocalyptic historical drama that ended up being one half of an astonishing cultural phenomenon at the movies last year. Maybe it’s because we’re a film awards site and that was the latest recipient of the highest award from […] More
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On the November Radar…
Just five days until we can finally get this election over with. Thank goodness. Check your registration. Get out and vote. Then, after checking your registration, and making a plan to vote, be sure to treat yourself to a movie. Between now and what Alex Jones keeps calling “the most important election in all of […] More
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Sunday Scaries: So What’s Going On With You, ‘Blade?’
Hi Blade. No, the other Blade. The one that just got removed from Marvel’s release schedule earlier this week. I saw that news and wanted to… check on you? See how you’re doing? There’s no shame in needing to talk. Or just vent. I certainly wouldn’t fault you for that. It’s been a rough five-and-a-half […] More
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