Formerly an associate writer for the now-retired Awards Circuit, Robert Hammer 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?
Welcome to another installment of my countdown of the year’s best performances in horror movies! Last time, I went with the general consensus and declared Demi Moore the best horror performer of 2024. Not the most idiosyncratic pick, but what can I say? Sometimes the masses and the Academy get it right. They may get […] More
By the time you read this article, Avatar: Fire and Ash will have taken in $1 billion at the global box office. This makes it the only film series ever created with three consecutive billion-dollar hits, and James Cameron the only filmmaker in history to have directed four billion-dollar hits. Consecutively. Which means, not unjustifiably, […] More
Note: Spoilers for The Insider are discussed in this article. Once upon a time, it was possible for a box office bomb to receive multiple Academy Award nominations. If it was good enough, and had enough muscle from big stars and well-regarded producers and directors, and had close-to-unanimous critical acclaim, a film could be nominated […] More
Note: Spoilers ahead for Stand by Me. You can do everything right. You can make the most of your life, work hard, be a delight to your friends, a devoted husband and father, try your best to make the world a better place, yet still, horrible things can happen to you for no good reason. […] More
Note: This article contains spoilers for Keeper, Together, Bring Her Back, Sinners, and Weapons. At the start of this decade, I mused on a possible decline in the trend of horror movies with ambitious themes, heavier visual aesthetics, and a more “arthouse” appeal being the dominant form of the genre in favor of more tonally […] More
Happy Honda Days, everyone! How are we all doing right now? Yeah… yeah, same. Things are looking kinda glum near the close of a pretty glum year. But still, let us try to keep our spirits up as the holidays approach. After all, there is a reason why every major religion and culture has some […] More
Note: Spoilers for one of the most well-known novels in the English language, and a variety of its adaptations, are discussed below. I watched a lot of Frankenstein movies during the last week of October in preparation for the latest version of the classic story from Guillermo del Toro, which is now available to stream […] More
So, we recently saw the theatrical release of Die My Love, which Joey loved but has also been attracting divided reactions and debate from those who’ve seen it. I don’t really want to discuss the movie itself, but rather its place among an unusual swell of movies like it that have emerged in recent years. […] More
Well, here we all are. Still in the midst of a site-wide shutdown due to some of the staff writers demanding free healthcare for undocumented commenters. This is all their fault. Don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Joey has, if anything, been given an extraordinary opportunity to lay off entire sections that contribute to […] More
You know who I think are bad guys? Nazis. They are the worst. Just awful people all-around. I used to think we could all agree on that in this century, but apparently that is not the case, anymore. This is an especially puzzling phenomenon for me to observe as a movie nerd, since I grew […] More
Once upon a time, in a tropical island far away, there lived a strange woman. She wore a long gown of black lamé that fit her like a glove. But the poor thing, she was caught in a giant spider web that grew out of her own body. One day, a shipwrecked man drifted onto […] More
I feel a little strange, and kind of guilty, posting something like this now of all times. These articles are literally designed to juice up interest, or at least discourse, around upcoming movies looking forward to an imminent commercially-available release on streaming or in theaters. But I feel like a lot of you may not […] More
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