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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The New ‘Musk’ Trailer Promises a… Provocative Documentary
If you were not aware of the controversial documentary Musk getting a new trailer, despite being directed by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and enjoying buzzy screenings at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, well, that might be because social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X have all refused to allow the studio […] More
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Attention, Netflix: The Stanford Prison Experiment was a Sham
On Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, Variety made the disturbing announcement that Netflix is commissioning a new reality show with a premise identical to the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment: The series, titled ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment,’ will debut on Oct. 21. The first season will consist of six 45-minute episodes. Why would they move ahead […] More
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(Hollywood [Probably] Can’t) Make This Movie (or Show?): StarCraft (Plus Brood War [But Please Ignore II])
Did you hear the good news from Blizzard last week? They unionized! Hooray! What a victory for at least some of the tech industry professionals who have spent literally decades being abused with punishing hours, unreasonable demands, and unfair compensation. We at Awards Radar support unionizing efforts in all creative professions. Oh, and also they […] More
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Oh Shut Up, CNN: “Tilly Norwood” Will Never Be Nominated For An Oscar. Ever.
Our major news outlets are compromised, incompetently managed by disingenuous ideologues, and ill-suited to the task of properly informing the public in this modern era. Shocking hot take, I know, but I don’t think we’re as vigilant or as harsh as we should be on them when they display particularly outrageous examples of journalistic turpitude. […] More
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Ranking 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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