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in Op-edDolores Umbridge: A Look Back At An Iconic ‘Harry Potter’ Villain
Today marks the U.S. theatrical debut of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which I won’t watch for reasons I already explained in my last preview article. So instead, I’d like to take a look back at something those awful movies sorely lack: an interesting character. Specifically an interesting villain. Specifically specifically a villain like […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Where Are the Truly Terrifying Vampire Movies?
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: The Hidden Horror of Troy Kotsur’s “Inspirational” Story
As Kotsur thinks about what his Oscar win will mean to him, he starts to cry. “I was so tired of financially struggling for so many years,” he says through an interpreter. “Now, receiving these awards — it’s saved my life, my career, my family.” This was from a recent interview Troy Kotsur participated in […] More
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Oscars 2022: Best International Feature and the Pending International Incident
The Best Foreign Language Film was changed after Alfonso Cuarón won Mexico’s first trophy in 2018 for Roma and used the opportunity to point out the hypocrisy of the categories name. The following year, South Korea and Parasite won the inaugural Best International Feature and also made history as the first film entirely in a […] More
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Reese Witherspoon: Gaslighting, Gatekeeping, Girlboss!
I swear this was totally accidental – on the evening I submitted my cryptocurrency ad article for Awards Radar, film producer and Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon announced an odious project. Variety reports: “Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has forged a storytelling partnership with World of Women (WoW), the NFT collective that is cracking open the […] More
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How Do You Like Them (Artificially-Inflated Speculative) Apples?
This is not specifically an article about movies. More… movie-adjacent. It’s something that I feel will be pushed on a large portion of the readership of this site over the next few years and it’s worth discussing in light of the cinema-quality Super Bowl advertisements that aired earlier this week. No, not the movie trailers. […] More
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What Would An “Alternate” Academy Award Nominations Have Looked Like?
Folks, welcome back to a fun little exercise that I like to do every year. A day or two after the Academy Award nominees are announced, I like to look at what the alternate version of the nominations would be. Imagine a Best Actor race headlined by Simon Rex for Red Rocket, for example. Or, what about any […] More
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No, That Old Movie You Love Probably Wouldn’t Be Made Today. Get Over It.
What is it with my fellow white people and the N-word? Why are so many of us seemingly obsessed with finding any loophole or exceptional circumstance to say that word? Can we not just accept that there are some words too hateful and ugly and loaded with painful history to casually bandy about in polite […] More
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! A Reminder That ‘Selma’ is Still Great!
Today is a special day in American history, as it is the federal holiday celebrating the life and work of civil rights organizer Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reluctantly signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, it would be another seventeen years before all fifty states would even willingly acknowledge it as a […] More
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Why We Don’t Need Worst of the Year Lists: A Gentle Reminder
I’m a broken record about this, but there’s no need to do Bottom Ten or Worst of the Year lists. Why waste your time when you can be celebrating the best of a given year? Hell, I just did that last week here, here, and here. The rare exception can be something that legitimately is […] More
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Sunday Scaries: I Really Want a ‘Malignant’ Sequel… But I Also Don’t?
As the Awards Radar Community is already well aware of, I loves me some Malignant. Probably the most fun – not the most moving or beautiful or intellectually stimulating, but absolutely the most fun – I’ve had watching a movie all year. I want more horror movies as weird and in delightfully poor taste as […] More
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Taylor Swift Plays the Role of Director ‘All Too Well’
Taylor Alison Swift is known by countless titles. The singer, songwriter, movie star, TV actress, performer, and director wears many hats.Today, however, we’re focusing on Swift’s directorial side, namely the new music video for her fan favorite song, All Too Well. And no, we’re not going to talk about the actor that inspired the song […] More
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