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in Op-edSunday Scaries: Deliver Us from Ourselves
“Lewis, listen, why are you so anxious about this?” “Because they’re building a dam across the Cahulawassee River. They’re gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby! That’s why. And you know what’s gonna happen? We’re gonna rape this whole god damned landscape. We’re gonna rape it!” Exactly fifty years ago today, John Boorman’s harrowing thriller Deliverance […] More
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The Top 25 Best Actor Winners So Far (Updated)
Welcome back! Believe it or not, this series is almost done with. We can mourn that soon, but for now, we press on. Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 […] More
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Sunday Scaries: A Jordan Peele Horror Appreciation Post
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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The Top 25 Best Cinematography Winners So Far (Updated)
If it’s (usually) a Monday, that means we’re back at it with this series! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Setting Horror Expectations for Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’
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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Awards Radar TV Reaction to the 2022 Emmy Nominations – Surprises and Snubs
Every Emmy nomination morning begins with hopes and dreams. Then, shortly after the Emmy nominations are announced they are replaced with hyperbolic talk of snubs and surprises. This year was no exception. Whatever the results, we just have to live with it. After sitting on the nomination announcement for a few days to avoid diving […] More
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The Top 25 Best Adapted Screenplay Winners So Far (Updated)
Alright my friends, it’s time for another one of these. Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Best Horror Films From the First Half of 2022
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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An Updated Ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe After ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’
*Yup, it’s another ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As you all might have guessed. this article/list is updated and slightly tinkered with to include the new release of Thor: Love and Thunder* For the very first list in this now series, click here, while the second one is here, followed by the third one here, as well […] More
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A Fourth of July Message From Awards Radar
Today is the Fourth of July, and normally, I’d be wishing you all a happy holiday from everyone at Awards Radar. Now, I still hope everybody has fun and is safe, but there’s more on my mind today. It’s America’s birthday, in a manner of speaking, our Independence Day, and I’m not sure that the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Very Real Horror of ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ is About to Be Far More Common
Normally, I start off a Sunday Scaries column with our normal little paragraph setting things up. I’m forgoing that today since this is a Sunday Scaries piece mostly in name only. Sure, the thing I’m talking about is absolutely terrifying, but it’s real life, not the movies. I’m talking about the Supreme Court last month […] More
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The Best Films and Performances of the First Half of 2022
Folks, welcome to July and the second half of the year! Time flies, doesn’t it? Last time around, I remarked that we were already a third of the way through 2022. Now, we’re actually somehow halfway through it. As many of you know, it has been a hell of a year for me, and time […] More
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