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?
A consensus among gamers is that, in any debate on what deserves to be held up as the Greatest Videogame Storyline Of All Time™, Silent Hill 2 needs to be in the conversation. It’s easy to see why: the game unfolds a bleak, engrossing, and mature (for its time) plot about grief and guilt communicated […] More
Like a lot of people obsessed with culture and art, A.I. has been on my mind lately. Namely, how it’s propped up by an ungodly amount of venture capital money despite very few demonstrated use cases. And how it is actively promoted by vile late-stage capitalist tech bros who despise art. And how it’s exacerbating […] More
No, Microsoft Co-Pilot, I don’t want you to write this article for me. What little value these pieces have comes from my voice and my perspective that you can’t ever truly replicate. I’m sure it would be “easier,” but letting A.I. write opinion articles for me would slowly kill what little is left of my […] More
Summertime! The season when the big movies IP-dependent franchise tentpoles roll out and keep Hollywood studio executives on the edge of their seats because these behemoths need to gross half-a-billion dollars just to have a shot at breaking even. The next ninety days will see the release of nine sequels, five reboots/remakes (depending on how […] More
Congratulations to Sean Baker on his big night at the Oscars! I have to admit, as much as I mostly like him as a filmmaker, it feels a little weird seeing someone win four Academy Awards for a single movie. I just don’t think that many trophies should be showered on just one person for […] More
Sorry for the delay, folks. I’ve been traveling around another continent for the last several months and I didn’t want to put out this list without seeing all the major horror releases of 2024. Now that I have, I’m ready to share my top five favorite performances from what I was finally able to catch […] More
Congratulations to Sebastian Stan on his first Academy Award nomination! He has come a long way since his breakout role as Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his achievement here caps off a stellar year for him. His fans are understandably happy to see his success here with a role that posed quite […] More
You know about death, that it’s just a change, not an end. Twin Peaks was, and is, a show invincible to the ruinous clickbait analysis of modern internet explainers and “Plot Breakdown” dorks who want to gaslight us into believing stories are puzzles meant to be solved. But that was what made David Lynch such […] More
Note: Spoilers ahead for Anora and Fish Tank. Because of the L.A. wildfires – please help if you can – the announcement of the Academy Award nominees has been pushed back to this Thursday. We are likely to see an impressive haul for films like The Brutalist, Conclave, Wicked: Part 1, and (ugh, god help […] More
The more it sits with me, the more I like The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s brazen, in-your-face, gruesome satire of… well, a lot of things. Some of which works and some which doesn’t, but the messy reflection of the writer/director’s own sense of aggrievement at the result of unfair patriarchal standards – including how those standards […] More
Did you know 2025 is a ‘WTF’ Year? That’s a year that begins on a Wednesday, making the acronym of the first three days of the year, literally, “W,” “T,” and “F.” Some superstitious folks would have you believe that this is a bad omen for the year, but that’s just silly. The last few […] More
Coming off of what was probably the single most awkward and regrettable Thanksgiving dinner of our lives, as well as a failed attempt to replicate a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon, we have one more month of 2024 theatrical releases to go. These are coming out as the next awards campaign season heats up, but pretty much […] More
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