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?
I’ve been thinking about Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, lately. One of the, in hindsight, most influential movies of the 21st century so far, for better and for worse. It effectively locked its director in place as being one of the “Big Names” who can actually sell a blockbuster off of him being the director […] More
So imagine it is the year 1997 and you’re James G. Robinson, co-founder of Morgan Creek Entertainment. You just saw Wes Craven revive the slasher genre the year prior, shocking an industry that had assumed since the end of the Cold War that those were permanently extinct. Suddenly, you see movement on reviving seemingly dead-and-buried […] More
“The Exorcist … possessed an entire subgenre, which extended beyond horror and even cinema in general to significant influence on just about every Judeo-Christian religious group in the hemisphere. But … there is no Father Karras to exorcise this cultural demon. No filmmaker since the end of Richard Nixon’s last full year as President has […] More
Happy August, everyone! For many years, now, I’ve been a friend and supporter of filmmaker Patrick Gratton, and from time to time will participate in film-related projects and gatherings he organizes. One of his most popular events is the Gold Digger Awards, where several film awards season writers and columnists come together to vote on […] More
I spent my high school years in a small and conservative-bordering-on-reactionary town in the south, so Evangelical Christianity dominated the culture of my community, and The Passion of the Christ was everywhere in the spring of 2004. The crowds that I saw in my theater for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the […] More
Well, it happened last week. Earlier this year, I made an observation about the then-upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in the lead-up to its release, not realizing at the time that it would be the absolute worst Marvel Cinematic Universe feature film I have yet seen: Why does the CGI of older Marvel movies […] More
So… “Barbenheimer” sure was a thing, huh? Like, a genuine grassroots consumer phenomenon we haven’t seen in a long time. I don’t have a lot more to add to the aftermath commentary except: 1) Hahaha, our favorite special boy just cannot stop whining about Barbie, and 2) I’ve heard some actors and writers discouraging WGA […] More
Content Warning: This article discusses The Exorcist. And all of the explicit and upsetting content it became infamous for. So… read at your own risk. Like all Millennials, I was born well after the zeitgeist cement of The Exorcist had already long-dried, and so had spent my entire childhood under the impression that it was the most […] More
I am very interested in how Oppenheimer will turn out this weekend, even before reading Joey rave about it after seeing it himself. It’s one of the most ambitious American films of the year in terms of scope (Killers of the Flower Moon and Dune: Part Two are the only upcoming releases that might put up a serious challenge […] More
Note: Spoilers for Insidious: The Red Door are discussed here. Don’t worry, folks – this is not going to be another rant decrying the drudgery of long-running movie franchises. Mainly because for horror, this has been the norm for a very long time. Before Marvel, before Mark S. Fowler was appointed to lead the FCC, […] More
The 13th of the Major Arcana cards, Death, is easily the single most misunderstood card in all of tarot. There have been so many B-movies that have used it as a shorthand for oh no this character is going to die!!! and tarot card readers usually have to quickly reassure their clients that that is […] More
Summertime! A season of record-breaking heat waves, a last-minute attempt to avoid a purely self-inflicted economic catastrophe, and big-budget spectacle movies! I’m actually pretty surprised, in a good way, that movie theaters still exist in the post-pandemic era, and I will show my gratitude for their endurance in the face of a truly existential threat […] More
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