Robert Hamer
Formerly an associate writer for recently-retired Award Circuit, Robert Hamer is a U.S. Navy veteran and current Washington, D.C. bean-counter who spends his time obsessing over movies and pop politics. He is returning to film and awards season commentary to return to a sense of normalcy in these plague-ridden times of rising fascism and late-stage capitalist dystopia. Join him, won't you, in these unorthodox attempts at cinematic therapy?
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in Op-edHappy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! A Reminder That ‘Selma’ is Still Great!
Today is a special day in American history, as it is the federal holiday celebrating the life and work of civil rights organizer Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reluctantly signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, it would be another seventeen years before all fifty states would even willingly acknowledge it as a […] More
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The Best Scores and Soundtracks of 2021
As I said last year, music is essential to our lives. It’s a core part of the human experience, helping us through it all (especially in trying times like these). Whether it’s your favorite band or what you hear while watching a great movie, music makes life better, plain and simple. When it comes to […] More
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On the Radar… (Beginning of the Year Edition)
Happy New Year, everyone! And Happy Marjorie Taylor-Greene Got Permanently Suspended from Twitter Day! Which was technically a few days ago, but I still feel like celebrating that. These first three months of the year are, with one exception, kind of a “dumping ground” for movies, not only the bad studio dreck that its distributors […] More
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Film Review: ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Beautifully Weaves Three Tales of Love, Life, and Human Error
Note: Some story beats in all three segments that may be considered light spoilers are discussed in this review. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has had, as they say, quite a year. Drive My Car unexpectedly emerged as the critical darling of 2021, unexpectedly winning the Best Picture prize from both the Los Angeles and New York film […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Wes Craven’s Déjà Vu
Note: Spoilers ahead for the Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street series. You know what’s a really good horror movie? New Nightmare. It didn’t perform very well at the box office and it seems like most fans remember it today as “that one odd out-of-continuity entry in the franchise,” but for my money, it’s […] More
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‘JFK’ Honestly Revisited: Through Boomer Obstinacy
On this day three decades ago, Oliver Stone released JFK, what is arguably the most controversial film of his career and the movie that most aggressively showcased his penchant for stylistic excess and narrative hyperbole. It’s one of the few Hollywood movies ever produced that directly led to the passage of a federal law, the […] More
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Film Review: ‘Drive My Car’ is an Unhurried, Ambitious, Epic-Length Trip Through Grief and Language
Note: Some early plot points that could be considered spoilers are discussed in this review. I have no idea if this is a mere coincidence, or a reflection of some deeper artistic movement going on in East Asian cinema, that we’ve now seen two short stories from the iconic Japanese author Haruki Murakami that were, […] More
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Sunday Scaries: I Really Want a ‘Malignant’ Sequel… But I Also Don’t?
As the Awards Radar Community is already well aware of, I loves me some Malignant. Probably the most fun – not the most moving or beautiful or intellectually stimulating, but absolutely the most fun – I’ve had watching a movie all year. I want more horror movies as weird and in delightfully poor taste as […] More
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NYC Horror Film Festival Review: ‘Save Me From Everything’ Needs Its Own Savior
I hate writing these reviews. I hate tearing down a bad movie made on a shoestring budget from a team who, for all I know, genuinely love filmmaking and hope to use this as a launchpad to pursue their passion as a career. Save Me From Everything, a psychological horror-thriller directed by Ryan Lacen and […] More
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Interview: Robert Mackenzie and Dave Whitehead (and Surprise Guest Tara Webb!) Reflect on the Unsettling Sounds of ‘The Power of the Dog’
“Wait a minute, you’re telling me that she (director Jane Campion) knew the difference between a 1912-model Dodge and a 1924 model just by listening to the engine noises?!” That is not a quote from Robert Mackenzie, the supervising sound editor on Jane Campion’s fascinating and unexpectedly brutal western The Power of the Dog, which […] More
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On the Radar… (December Edition)
Ho, ho, ho! Meeerrrrry Christmas! Or Happy Holidays, a phrase that was not invented by woke liberals in the last few years but something that people have been saying to each other since 1863. Now we’re really getting into the final push for the last-minute Oscar contenders. I personally can’t stand how many of these […] More
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Interview: Jayne Houdyshell on Her Long Journey with ‘The Humans’
The Humans is a one-act play that has been around for a while. Its first-ever performance in front of an audience was at the American Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois in 2014. It slowly made its way wowing theatregoers around the country before finally making its Broadway debut in 2016, soon after that becoming a […] More
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