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Awards Radar Podcast #58: A Halloween Spooktacular Alongside ‘Dune’ and ‘Eternals’ Discussions With Joey, Myles, Ryan, Steve, and Special Guest Terence Johnson!
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Pandemic Friendly Halloween Party Alternatives
It’s official: we are approaching our second COVID-19 Halloween, folks. While much has changed since then—including vaccinations—the pandemic is still overstaying its welcome and concerns are still relevant. Halloween is one of my top three favorite holidays and Halloween 2020 being a very low-key day was disappointing to me, as it was to many others. […] More
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Sunday Scaries: When Will Hollywood Figure Out Freddy and Jason Like They’ve Figured Out Michael?
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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in Op-ed
31 Days of Halloween: All the Spooky and Spooky-Adjacent Films Watched This Month
Few would argue that 2020 has been a year-long horror show, and between social distancing and the existential terror many of us feel in the current climate, there has been a certain hesitation about whether it makes sense to observe normal October traditions. Taking the kids trick-or-treating seems horribly ill-advised, and even the idea of […] More
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Be Very Afraid for Next ‘Halloween’
There are plenty of reasons to anticipate the end of 2020, and now horror fans have one more. Universal Pictures has chosen just before this Halloween to release a very brief teaser trailer for Halloween Kills, which is slated to debut in theaters on October 15th, 2021. The Halloween franchise began in 1978 with the […] More
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in Op-ed
October 2020 Halloween Horror Binge: Netflix and Chills
For a few years now, I’ve wanted to take part in watching a different horror or Halloween themed movie every day of October. I first got the idea from a good friend of mine that does this every year with her husband, but I could never commit or find the time in prior years. Flash-forward […] More
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in Op-ed
Stephen King from Page to Screen: Some Shine, Some Redeem, and Some Bite
It’s officially spooky season. That means flannels are out, I have a bag of hand picked apples sitting on my counter reminding me that I really should have made that apple crisp by now, and it’s time to revisit some Stephen King favorites. King’s reputation as a horror writer has always been problematic simply because […] More
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‘Hannibal’ is the Ultimate Expression of Halloween
(This article was previously published on our sister site ScreenRadar.com). Halloween’s going to be weird this year. If it were any other time, we might be brainstorming costume ideas, and toying with the idea of trying on a new identity for a night. Once a year, we can masquerade as evil, sadistic, macabre. Once a year, […] More
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in Op-ed
Four Deserving Horror Films The Academy Will Ignore
For decades, the horror genre has taken a serious back seat when it comes to the Academy Awards. Simply put, the true horror of the Oscars is the lack of horror. Since Jordan Peele’s illustrious Best Original Screenplay Oscar win for Get Out in 2018, Peele’s filmmaking career has taken off and been one to […] More
