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in Op-edSunday Scaries: YOU’VE BEEN HERE FOR TWO DECADES
A consensus among gamers is that, in any debate on what deserves to be held up as the Greatest Videogame Storyline Of All Time™, Silent Hill 2 needs to be in the conversation. It’s easy to see why: the game unfolds a bleak, engrossing, and mature (for its time) plot about grief and guilt communicated […] More
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A Place, and a Man, Both Wonderful and Strange
You know about death, that it’s just a change, not an end. Twin Peaks was, and is, a show invincible to the ruinous clickbait analysis of modern internet explainers and “Plot Breakdown” dorks who want to gaslight us into believing stories are puzzles meant to be solved. But that was what made David Lynch such […] More
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On the December Radar…
Coming off of what was probably the single most awkward and regrettable Thanksgiving dinner of our lives, as well as a failed attempt to replicate a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon, we have one more month of 2024 theatrical releases to go. These are coming out as the next awards campaign season heats up, but pretty much […] More
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On the Radar… (December Edition)
The last month of 2023! Time to enjoy holiday cheer, YouTuber implosions, and get prepared for the worst and most exhausting election year of our lifetimes. We also have the last slate of this year’s feature films coming out, many of which are among the most anticipated of the entire year, and surprisingly, I’m not […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Don’t Go To McKamey Manor
Note: I have heard from the grapevine that Russ McKamey has a… shall we say, “passionate” following. So if you’re a fan of his, let me be clear: We at Awards Radar are not affiliated with or claim ownership of any intellectual property owned by McKamey Manor. No one here represents Russ McKamey or is […] More
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On the Radar… (Fall Edition)
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
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Sunday Scaries: The Fifty-Year Possession
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
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Sunday Scaries: Which Future Oscar Contenders Should You Be Scared Of?
Note: Topics of self-harm and abuse are discussed in this piece. Two years ago, I reflected on how Parasite continued an interesting trend among movies that win Best Picture during presidential election years: “How it works is this: if the most recent winner of the Best Picture Academy Award is optimistic, hopeful, old-fashioned in its […] 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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Sunday Scaries: A “Classic” As Groundbreaking As It Is Terrible
Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most ambitious, ahead-of-its-time horror movies of the 21st century was released, containing traces of virtually every aesthetic and trope that would become increasingly popular for the genre in the years since. Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most dreary, incoherent, luridly misogynistic torture porn nonsense […] More
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Juneteenth: The Day Racism Ended Forever
Happy Juneteenth, everyone! Now it’s officially a federal holiday, which is good because, as our public education system is determined to teach the next generation, that was the day that there was no more racism ever in America. Unfortunately, outside agitators want to make us white people feel bad and have difficult conversations about such […] More
