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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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On the Summer Radar…
Summertime! The season when the big movies IP-dependent franchise tentpoles roll out and keep Hollywood studio executives on the edge of their seats because these behemoths need to gross half-a-billion dollars just to have a shot at breaking even. The next ninety days will see the release of nine sequels, five reboots/remakes (depending on how […] More
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Sunday Scaries: There’s Been a… Slight Misuse… of the Satire
The more it sits with me, the more I like The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s brazen, in-your-face, gruesome satire of… well, a lot of things. Some of which works and some which doesn’t, but the messy reflection of the writer/director’s own sense of aggrievement at the result of unfair patriarchal standards – including how those standards […] More
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On the Early ‘WTF’ Year Radar…
Did you know 2025 is a ‘WTF’ Year? That’s a year that begins on a Wednesday, making the acronym of the first three days of the year, literally, “W,” “T,” and “F.” Some superstitious folks would have you believe that this is a bad omen for the year, but that’s just silly. The last few […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Viggo Mortensen is Right About David Cronenberg
The phrase “Viggo Mortensen is right” is not something I have had the opportunity to say often – or, really, at all – in recent years, especially with his ongoing defensiveness over the indefensible “I worked for a famous person once and we totally became bestest friends” historical fan fiction Green Book and lack of […] More
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On the Fall Radar…
As we enter the final four months of 2024, and as we desperately try to find ways to take our minds off of what is surely destined to become the single most exhausting and aggravating year we have ever had to put up with since… well, the last election year, we can take solace in […] More
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Sunday Scaries: ‘Longlegs’ Reconsidered
I guess I have been ruminating on this for long enough. Okay, here we go… Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is, so far, the most talked-about and popular horror movie of the year, with critics declaring it a masterpiece of the genre and a guaranteed classic. One of those critics being Awards Radar’s own Editor-in-Chief. In Joey […] 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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On the Radar… (Spring Edition)
Remember when a movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture included a scene from one of its Oscar-nominated actresses where she bludgeons a man to death with two comically oversized dildos? And then later featured a scene where two henchmen shove phallic-shaped trophies up their asses to obtain martial arts abilities against its […] More
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On the Radar… (Beginning of the Year Edition)
Well, folks, 2023 is upon us! I know we’re all still focused on the Oscar race ramping up and Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing attempts to try to become the next Speaker of the House, but between now and The Big Night, we will have quite a few interesting releases to keep an eye on. Will any […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Best Performances in Horror For 2022
Happy New Year, horror lovers! Last month, Joey shared his top ten favorite scary movies released last year, with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s legacyquel Scream coming out on top. At the risk of getting a little too end-of-year-list crazy, I’d like to share my own horror-related “rankings,” this time focused on the acting that […] 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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