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-edRanking the 21st Century Winners of the Golden Lion
Buongiorno, lettori! Today is the first day of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, and what fortuitous luck that I am, in fact, residing in Italy right now! Sadly, I am unable to attend the festival itself due to work obligations, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be paying close attention to one of the […] More
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On the Fall Radar…
Seriously? Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in one week? Have we not been suffering enough? We couldn’t have some time to mourn our beloved country music icon who devoted her life and wealth to making the world a better place before getting hit with the passing of our favorite childhood villain/hambone delight? I just cannot […] More
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You Will Own Nothing And You Will Be Happy
Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Sony will delete all of the Studio Canal titles from their Playstation Store, removing the access anyone who paid for them once had: From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will […] More
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An Update to the Most Important Thing Happening in the Entertainment Industry
So this is pretty wild. Remember that meeting the California Attorney General had scheduled for today with David Ellison? The one that was supposed to reach a settlement regarding that antitrust lawsuit California had filed with eleven other states to try to block Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (which, to be clear, we […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Making Sense of ‘Carrie’ in These Times
Hey, did you hear the big announcement at Comic-Con last weekend? They’re making another Carrie! This time as a limited series on Amazon Prime Video! Cool, right? Uh… right? Granted, we’ve been remaking this pretty regularly since the Brian de Palma classic hit theaters literally five decades ago (fun fact: more time has passed between the theatrical release […] More
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It’s Time to Get Real About Why ‘Supergirl’ Bombed
So Supergirl performed abysmally at the box office last weekend, and it’s unlikely that it’ll recover or grow box office “legs” heading into this weekend. It’s on track to lose at least $100 million for DC Studios, and we’re just on our second film in this rebooted cinematic universe trying to compete with the Marvel […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Defending ‘Obsession’
I had originally planned to publish this opinion piece earlier, but when your film becomes an unexpected cultural phenomenon that rakes in literally over one hundred times its budget at the box office, home media rollouts get pushed back a bit to ride that theatrical gravy train for as long as possible. Now that we’re […] More
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On the Summer Radar…
Happy Summer, readers. Or at least, as happy as it can be right now. Hopefully you did not have any international travel plans. Or road trip plans. Fingers crossed you don’t live near a data center and planned to just relax and enjoy the quiet peace of your neighborhood, either. Drink plenty of water and […] More
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Ranking the 21st Century Winners of the Palme d’Or at Cannes
Bonjour, chers lecteurs! That’s right, the 79th Cannes Film Festival is commencing today. Just like with my Berlin rankings, I want to continue looking back on the previous quarter-century of recipients of the top awards at the “Big Three” international film festivals. Cannes is arguably the most internationally known and prestigious of all of them, […] More
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Who I Would Love To See Become The Next Amy Madigan
Our lovable online cinephile pal Nathaniel Rogers is running an interesting poll on his site The Film Experience right now. In the wake of Amy Madigan’s Best Supporting Actress win last month, she not only notched a major industry victory for the horror genre, but she also concluded an incredible comeback arc after a decades-long […] More
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Sunday Scaries: What Do We Fear From Liminal Spaces?
Oh boy, it even has that iconic little off-key chord to open it: Last week, we were hit with the full trailer for a feature-length movie adapting a book comic show tweet thread urban legend short films meme I… don’t know how, precisely, to describe this strange internet phenomenon this is pulling from. It might […] More
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On the Spring Radar…
“Academy Award Winner Paul Thomas Anderson.” That still feels surreal to say. I genuinely did not think such an iconoclastic filmmaker, whose devoted and passionate cult following was never that big (certainly puny compared to the size of Christopher Nolan’s fanbase), would ever write and direct a movie that the Academy would wholeheartedly embrace. Especially […] More
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