ON THE RADAR
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Interview: Mike Flanagan and the ‘Carrie’ Cast on Reinventing The Story for Today’s Horrors
The new girl in school has become quite popular. Carrie is not only topping the charts, landing as Nielsen’s No. 1 overall streaming title in the U.S. and hitting No. 1 on Prime Video in over 105 countries, the series has already earned a season two renewal. With so much horror content as well as […] More
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Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of October 26th – Guillermo del Toro Brings ‘Frankenstein’ to Life on Criterion
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, the most recent Guillermo del Toro film is joining the Criterion Collection as Frankenstein gets this special treatment (my review of the movie from the Telluride Film Festival is here). This week also features some horror themed 4K re-releases, which is quite appropriate since we’re approaching Halloween, as […] More
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Sunday Scaries: ‘Clayface’ is Finally Here and…It’s Fine?
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Awards Season Went Down to Georgia: Previewing the 2026 SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Today, I’m headed down to Savannah to continue festival season. While once upon a time, the devil famously went down to Georgia, now I am too. The occasion? The beginning of the 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival. This point in festival season is where the regional fests kick into high gear, and while there’s not […] More
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Movie Villains Who Use Poker to Intimidate Their Opponents
In Rounders, Teddy KGB eats Oreo cookies at the table, splashes his chips into the pot, and taunts the man across from him in a Russian accent thick enough that a Rolling Stone critic gave up trying to transcribe it. The man across from him is Mike McDermott, who lost his entire $30,000 bankroll to […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #313: Joey and Kate Turn Their Attention to the Best Actor / Best Supporting Actor Races
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Interview: ‘Wicker’ Stars Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård on Just How Much Fun That Shoot Was
One of the biggest surprises of Wicker is just how much fun it is. That fun isn’t just something viewers experience, as I learned when talking to the movie’s stars, Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård. They had a blast making this film, as did pretty much everyone involved. You can see it too in the […] More
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Why ‘You Can See Everything’ is a Legitimate Best Picture Contender
Last weekend, audiences finally got to see what pundits like yours truly have been raving about since the Telluride Film Festival. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim‘s You Can See Everything opened in theaters, taking in a phenomenal $15.6 million in only 855 theaters. This weekend, the film goes wide and may well challenge Clayface for […] More
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Interview: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Filmmaker Noah Segan Chats About Making His Wonderful Movie
Noah Segan has truly outdone himself with The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. The actor, probably best known as Kid Blue in Rian Johnson‘s Looper, turned writer and director, has one of the films of 2026 in this wonderful character study. The movie, centered on a towering turn from John Turturro, has been impressing […] More
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Interview: Celebrating Ten Years of the ‘Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’ Theme
The mobile gaming market accounts for the most lucrative sector of the global video game industry, and with that success has come an entire cultural history of iconic games, characters, and musical themes. Fans of the popular Mobile Legends: Bang Bang game, which boasts over 1.5 billion registered players across more than 190 countries, know […] More















