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Sunday Scaries: If Kevin Smith Has a ‘Red State’ Sequel In Him, I Say Bring It On!
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Robert’s True Crime Serial Killer “Holy Trinity”
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
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Playing the Part: Thoughts As I Begin My Time at Mets Fantasy Camp (Part One)
By the time you read this, I’ll be on a plane headed to Florida. Why? Well, as I detailed here about two weeks ago, I’m going to be participating in Mets Fantasy Camp. Yes, as we head into awards season, I’ll be thinking about Oscar nominations while also channeling my inner New York Met. Considering […] More
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On the Radar… (November Edition)
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
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Sunday Scaries: Yet Another 31 Days of Halloween
Longtime readers and/or listeners of the Awards Radar podcast will likely know that the spooky season is my absolute favorite time of the year. Even though I’ve been too old for trick-or-treating for a long while now, and am probably too old for most adult-oriented costume parties at this point, that doesn’t stop me from […] More
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Baseball (and Being a Met Fan, Particularly) is a Bigger Tearjerker Than Any Film
Yesterday, the World Series got underway. About four weeks ago, I was fairly certain that I would be watching my favorite team, the New York Mets, playing there. Then, three weeks ago, I thought it was still a possibility. Silly me. The Mets, as they are prone to do (you can look up their history, […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Lamenting the Allegory
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
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NYFF: The Best Movies and Performances at the 60th New York Film Festival
Put a bow on the New York Film Festival for 2022. Moreover, that’s likely it for festivals this year for me, allowing me to really settle in with my own bed (though, yes, I sleep at home during NYFF). Each year, NYFF puts on a classy and diverse show, with the 60th installment no exception. […] More
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Ranking the Films of Kevin Smith
I’m just going to get straight to it…Kevin Smith is one of my favorite filmmakers. As far back as when I was first getting into film, Smith was someone I gravitated towards immediately. Sure, occasionally it leads to some smirking at an Oscar prognosticator loving a storyteller far from the awards race, but we love […] More
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Sunday Scaries: “Evil Never Dies” But It Can Sure Get Musty
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
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Sacheen Littlefeather: A Powerful Figure at The Oscars… And So Much 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
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Sunday Scaries: October is the Best Time of the Year for Horror Films
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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