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?
The prediction that tipped Joey over to besting me in our Cannes Film Festival prediction pool earlier this year was his very astute sense that Zar Amir-Ebrahimi would win the Prix D’interprétation Feminine for the true crime drama Holy Spider. Thankfully, it’s starting to expand wide in the United States, and you can count on […] More
So. What are we doing this month, my beautiful readers? Are we resigning ourselves to letting the fascists back into Congress? Do we let the U.S. Senate make room for a daytime talk show snake oil grifter and the author of a hateful, classist book that was adapted into… wow, I can’t even call it […] More
Note: Spoilers for Hellraiser and The Invisible Man are discussed. I want to expand a bit on my recently-reiterated frustration with many late-stage “Elevated Horror” movies becoming more explicit in their thematic messaging, bordering on didactic patronizing. At worst, this will result in an overlong, pretentious, dour slog that isn’t scary and is more interested […] More
Note: Spoilers ahead for Halloween Ends. Boy oh boy Halloween Ends seems to have provoked the intensely polarized reactions that Joey predicted it would. Some fans are furious that this is the swan song for Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode and the iconic embodiment of capital-E Evil Personified Michael Myers: Though others have joined Joey […] More
Regarding the Academy’s apology to me, we Indians are very patient people. It’s only been fifty years! We need to keep our sense of humor about this at all times. It’s our method of survival. Last week, we learned, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of arguably the most infamous public refusal of an […] More
Some longtime readers might remember me as a man who has been growing weary of this trend of “elevated horror” movies, lately. While I am more than happy to encourage ambition and the pursuit of adult themes, good lord, can filmmakers please just make movies about bad relationships and societal misogyny if that’s what they’re actually interested […] More
Oh, dear. Last month’s installment of this series was… a bit grumpy, wasn’t it? Thankfully, that won’t be the case for October, which I already indulged in a few weeks ago with a special On the Radar… / Sunday Scaries spooktacular crossover event that specifically previewed a few of the most anticipated scary movies coming […] More
Note: Spoilers ahead for Don’t Worry Darling. One of my favorite insights about the art of storytelling came from the legendary auteur Billy Wilder: “If you have a problem with your third act, the real problem is in your first act. What’s inside Victory Headquarters? That’s the burning question Alice needs answered in Olivia Wilde’s […] More
Of all the iconic horror movie franchises birthed within that “boom” period between 1973 and 1988, Hellraiser is probably the most interesting to me. Not the overall best; until those stupid prequels came along, I’d have handily picked Alien as pound-for-pound the most artistically accomplished horror franchise overall. Not the one with the highest highs; […] More
We’re taking a look at this year’s Emmy nominees and digging into their past work and credits that may have influenced their Emmy-nominated work this year. Now it’s on to the dramas! And based on who the nominees ended up being, it looks like Emmy voters were only interested in three or four shows this […] More
We’re taking a look at this year’s Emmy nominees and digging into their past work and credits that may have influenced their Emmy-nominated work this year. The important thing here is looking at who is gunning for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy, and looking at what they’ve done beforehand and whether […] More
As the fall season gets going and possible awards contenders emerge (congratulations to Laura Poitras, by the way), it’s also the time when I have to make some decisions as I shape up the rest of the year’s On the Radar… entries. I can’t write a short novel every month covering every upcoming release in […] More
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