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?
Happy Labor Day, everyone! And what a time for labor, isn’t it? For the first time in decades, employees have leverage over their employers in a historically tight labor market. Unionization is making a comeback in a variety of industries. If you consider yourself part of the working class, or even just work in any […] More
Fall, officially the best season! No ifs, ands, or buts about it anymore. As we continue to pump carbon into the atmosphere and cook our planet alive, the thought of the weather cooling down and the trees taking on different shades of amber and brownish colors will become a lot more appealing to us for… […] More
Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most ambitious, ahead-of-its-time horror movies of the 21st century was released, containing traces of virtually every aesthetic and trope that would become increasingly popular for the genre in the years since. Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most dreary, incoherent, luridly misogynistic torture porn nonsense […] More
I don’t want to say who was guilty or who was innocent. [pauses] But if you’re directing a movie and two kids get their heads chopped off at f***ing twelve o’clock at night when there ain’t supposed to be kids working, and you said “Action!” then you have some sort of responsibility. That was Eddie […] More
So now that the fall season is coming up, I’ll have to revert back to the monthly editions of these On the Rader… pieces since there’s no way I’ll be able to cover an entire season of major upcoming releases and awards players in just one article. But right now, it’s the calm before the […] More
Lewis, listen, why are you so anxious about this? Because they’re building a dam across the Cahulawassee River. They’re gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby! That’s why. And you know what’s gonna happen? We’re gonna rape this whole god damned landscape. We’re gonna rape it! Exactly fifty years ago today, John Boorman’s harrowing thriller Deliverance […] More
As I mentioned in my interview with production designer Tony Fanning last month, I am a bit of nerd when it comes to Presidents. Not just as they’re portrayed in the movies (though I do pontificate on those from time to time!), but also in the general sense that, with only one or two or […] More
This year hasn’t provided much in the way of joy or happiness, lately. From war to inflation to energy shortages to mass shootings to an age of partisanship where one party has abandoned all pretense of sane parliamentary governance and the other one is clinging to outdated notions of civic pleasantries at the expense of […] More
About a year ago, I went over a few of the dangerous political upheavals and conflicts going on in the Middle East in the early 1980’s to question why Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns thought it was a good idea to bring those up in service of an insensitive and ultimately pointless subplot in Wonder […] More
And now we reach the heart of what Dan and Jordan would call the “dreamy creamy summer!” The summer blockbusters are trickling back into theaters because we’re all still clinging to the comforting myth that COVID-19 will go away if we just wish it away hard enough, Tom Cruise is dominating the box office to […] More
We have a bad habit of over-segmenting our perception of the narrative of history, if that makes sense; pretending that advances in human rights can be identified by “clean breaks” that mark an immediate and permanent “victory” for the right side. But anyone who has experienced a genuine curiosity about our history, or even just […] More
“I’d like a child one day. But not instead of a life.” It’s impossible to know for sure how “objective” one can be when evaluating a film depicting such a deeply personal, urgent story with immediate import to real life events. I am certain that detractors of Happening will accuse Bong Joon-ho’s jury of making […] More
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