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Why Do They Keep Promoting This Slop That No One Wants?
Last week, Variety ran a totally-newsworthy-and-not-shameless-advertising-for-AI-slop article about the upcoming film Merry the Christmas Witch, with the article going out of its way to note the most unique aspect of its production: [Producer Tom] Walsh tells Variety he loved the idea of a Christmas witch and was eager to adapt the title. But when he sat down to figure out the budget, the total cost seemed unwieldy: $80 million, a cost studios would balk at for “an unknown property,” Walsh said.
Sunday Scaries: The Most Ambitious Horror Movie Ever Made Might Be In Pre-Production Right Now
This weekend saw the release of Whalefall, a survival thriller about a young man getting swallowed by a sperm whale who has a limited amount of time to escape before suffering a horrible death inside the gut of one of the largest animals on Earth, and if that sounds like nightmare fuel to you, hey man, I feel ya, the experience of watching something like that is a big fat N O P E to me, especially since such a scenario is, apparently, scientifically possible (if still mostly unlikely), but...
Awards Radar Community: What is the Most Heartbreaking Example of a Once-Good Show Going Bad?
On Bluesky (aka the “woke” X.com) yesterday, writer Nev Fountain posed a question that went relatively viral: What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good? — Nev Fountain (@nevfountain.bsky.social) 2026-10-05T15:14:25.493Z This generated a number of interesting answers: The first season of Heroes is incredible TV and then they opened season two in “Ireland” and the less we say about that the better.
Production on ‘The Batman: Part II’ Paused as Director Matt Reeves Steps Away for Personal Reasons
Deadline is reporting a potentially tragic story out of production on The Batman: Part II, which has been placed on hold due to a personal matter that director Matt Reeves needs to step away from and directly address. DC Studios is supportive: Production on The Batman: Part II has been temporarily paused while Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter. Matt has the full support of DC Studios and we look forward to continuing the journey soon.
Warner Bros is Dead. Long Live Skydance.
It’s over. Starting today, Warner Bros. Discovery no longer exists, having been subsumed by what was once Paramount-Skydance into the new megacorporation simply called Skydance after settling the lawsuit initially launched against them by twelve state AGs led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Alejandro Keeps Digging... - Awards Radar
Okay, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, let’s engage with your new movie. Let’s do the thing you demanded multiple times, through the mouths of your characters, from us as we were watching the film. Let’s really dissect your “satire” and what it means for all of us. If it wasn’t already obvious enough… SPOILERS AHEAD. SERIOUSLY, I’M GOING TO REVEAL A MAJOR PLOT TWIST.
The New ‘Musk’ Trailer Promises a… Provocative Documentary
If you were not aware of the controversial documentary Musk getting a new trailer, despite being directed by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and enjoying buzzy screenings at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, well, that might be because social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X have all refused to allow the studio Bleecker Street to run it as a paid ad on their platforms. For… some reason.
Attention, Netflix: The Stanford Prison Experiment was a Sham
On Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, Variety made the disturbing announcement that Netflix is commissioning a new reality show with a premise identical to the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment: The series, titled ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment,’ will debut on Oct. 21. The first season will consist of six 45-minute episodes. Why would they move ahead with such a self-evidently dishonorable premise for a show?
(Hollywood [Probably] Can’t) Make This Movie (or Show?): StarCraft (Plus Brood War [But Please Ignore II])
Did you hear the good news from Blizzard last week? They unionized! Hooray! What a victory for at least some of the tech industry professionals who have spent literally decades being abused with punishing hours, unreasonable demands, and unfair compensation. We at Awards Radar support unionizing efforts in all creative professions. Oh, and also they announced a new StarCraft real-time strategy looter-shooter action-RPG live-service who really knows what kind of game?
Oh Shut Up, CNN: “Tilly Norwood” Will Never Be Nominated For An Oscar. Ever.
Our major news outlets are compromised, incompetently managed by disingenuous ideologues, and ill-suited to the task of properly informing the public in this modern era. Shocking hot take, I know, but I don’t think we’re as vigilant or as harsh as we should be on them when they display particularly outrageous examples of journalistic turpitude.
Ranking the 21st Century Winners of the Golden Lion
Buongiorno, lettori! Today is the first day of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, and what fortuitous luck that I am, in fact, residing in Italy right now! Sadly, I am unable to attend the festival itself due to work obligations, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be paying close attention to one of the most high-profile film festivals of year. In fact, some box office hits and Oscar-winning films got their first big boost from their premieres at this very event.
On the Fall Radar…
Seriously? Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in one week? Have we not been suffering enough? We couldn’t have some time to mourn our beloved country music icon who devoted her life and wealth to making the world a better place before getting hit with the passing of our favorite childhood villain/hambone delight?
You Will Own Nothing And You Will Be Happy
Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Sony will delete all of the Studio Canal titles from their Playstation Store, removing the access anyone who paid for them once had: From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library. Thank you, PlayStation Store How many titles does this effect? Over five hundred.
An Update to the Most Important Thing Happening in the Entertainment Industry
So this is pretty wild. Remember that meeting the California Attorney General had scheduled for today with David Ellison? The one that was supposed to reach a settlement regarding that antitrust lawsuit California had filed with eleven other states to try to block Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (which, to be clear, we at Awards Radar absolutely support those six states in their efforts to block this)?
Sunday Scaries: Making Sense of ‘Carrie’ in These Times
Hey, did you hear the big announcement at Comic-Con last weekend? They’re making another Carrie! This time as a limited series on Amazon Prime Video! Cool, right? Uh… right?
It’s Time to Get Real About Why ‘Supergirl’ Bombed
So Supergirl performed abysmally at the box office last weekend, and it’s unlikely that it’ll recover or grow box office “legs” heading into this weekend. It’s on track to lose at least $100 million for DC Studios, and we’re just on our second film in this rebooted cinematic universe trying to compete with the Marvel juggernaut.
Sunday Scaries: Defending ‘Obsession’
I had originally planned to publish this opinion piece earlier, but when your film becomes an unexpected cultural phenomenon that rakes in literally over one hundred times its budget at the box office, home media rollouts get pushed back a bit to ride that theatrical gravy train for as long as possible.
Adel verpflichtet
Verkäufer Louis (Dennis Price) ist ein Enkel des Herzogs von Chalfont. Als seine Mutter stirbt, verweigert ihr die Familie das standesgemäße Begräbnis. Louis beschließt, selbst Herzog zu werden – und die acht Familienmitglieder (alle gespielt von Alec Guinness), die vor ihm erbberechtigt sind, um die Ecke zu bringen.
On the Summer Radar…
Happy Summer, readers. Or at least, as happy as it can be right now. Hopefully you did not have any international travel plans. Or road trip plans. Fingers crossed you don’t live near a data center and planned to just relax and enjoy the quiet peace of your neighborhood, either. Drink plenty of water and monitor yourself for heat stress, too. Remember when summer used to be nice? Anyway, what movies can we look forward to over the next three months?
Ranking the 21st Century Winners of the Palme d’Or at Cannes
Bonjour, chers lecteurs! That’s right, the 79th Cannes Film Festival is commencing today. Just like with my Berlin rankings, I want to continue looking back on the previous quarter-century of recipients of the top awards at the “Big Three” international film festivals. Cannes is arguably the most internationally known and prestigious of all of them, with several high-profile releases including two recent Best Picture winners making their debuts here.
Who I Would Love To See Become The Next Amy Madigan
Our lovable online cinephile pal Nathaniel Rogers is running an interesting poll on his site The Film Experience right now. In the wake of Amy Madigan’s Best Supporting Actress win last month, she not only notched a major industry victory for the horror genre, but she also concluded an incredible comeback arc after a decades-long dry spell with the Academy. Forty years.
Sunday Scaries: What Do We Fear From Liminal Spaces?
Oh boy, it even has that iconic little off-key chord to open it: Last week, we were hit with the full trailer for a feature-length movie adapting a book comic show tweet thread urban legend short films meme I… don’t know how, precisely, to describe this strange internet phenomenon this is pulling from. It might be fair to describe this as less an adaptation of a distinct story or fictional universe so much as adapting an online community’s shared fear of… big empty rooms.
On the Spring Radar…
“Academy Award Winner Paul Thomas Anderson.” That still feels surreal to say. I genuinely did not think such an iconoclastic filmmaker, whose devoted and passionate cult following was never that big (certainly puny compared to the size of Christopher Nolan’s fanbase), would ever write and direct a movie that the Academy would wholeheartedly embrace.
A Big, Beautiful Failure
Wow, and I thought this would be the happiest event in the entertainment industry in the first quarter of the year. Nope! I was wrong! I am beyond pleased to report to you all that Sora, the AI slop video generator that tech industry sociopaths and Hollywood washouts were so excited for out of a delusional belief that it would somehow replace artists and storytellers, is shutting down mere months after its launch.
76th Berlin Film Festival Winners Announced
The recipient of the 76th Berlin Film Festival’s top prize is the Turkish drama Yellow Letters, İlker Çatak’s chronicle of a married couple who have to move to Istanbul with their 13 year-old daughter to rebuild their shattered lives after state arbitration leaves them both unemployed… which is weird, because that sounds like a movie that expresses a lot of political undertones and I was under the impression that this festival is totally not political and, in fact, artists should never be...
55 giorni a Pechino
( 55 Days at Peking ) Valutazione 4.1 di 5 su 8 voti in TV MER.25 su Tv 2000 - Ore 21:05 Regista: Andrew Marton, Nicholas Ray, Guy Green Paese: USA Durata: 145 min Distribuzione: RANK 55 giorni a Pechino è un film del 1963 di genere avventura, diretto da Andrew Marton, Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, con Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner e David Niven, della durata di 145 minuti in onda in TV MER.25 su Tv 2000 alle 21:05. Il film è stato candidato agli Oscar.
Ranking the 21st Century Winners of the Golden Bear
Guten morgen, liebe leser! Today is the opening day of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival. I realized, at the dawn of this year’s festivities, that we are now just a little over a quarter of the way through the century. Which is a daunting prospect in general, but I also think this is an apt time to look back on these major international film festivals and reflect on what their idiosyncratic juries held up as the best among their official selections.
Sunday Scaries: Are We Getting Burned Out on Zombie Apocalypse Pessimism?
Note: Spoilers ahead for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Is it fair to call 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple a box office bomb at this point? At a minimum, it is just straightforwardly true that the film is not doing nearly as well as 28 Years Later did. This is a stunning turnaround from that prior installment enjoying the highest opening weekend in the franchise’s history not even a full year ago, ending its theatrical run taking in over two-and-a-half times its budget.
Film Review: Show No 'Mercy' to Shoddy Pro-A.I. Propaganda
Note: Spoilers for a movie you should not waste any time actually watching are discussed below. One of the most justifiably reviled films of last year was War of the Worlds. For a number of reasons, but a chief sticking point was how much of its runtime was devoted not only to advertising Amazon products, but also full-on advocacy for corporate mass surveillance.
You Really Messed Up, Searchlight Pictures.
Every year, there is always at least one movie I adore from the prior year (usually more than one) that receives zero Academy Award nominations. Sometimes it’s because the movie is just too outré to ever realistically attain mainstream plaudits. Other times, I’m simply out-of-step with a critical and industry consensus that wasn’t as crazy about the film as I was.
On the Early Year Radar...
Happy New Year! For those of you, who, hypothetically, are changing careers after getting into a dispute with your boss and find yourself with some additional free time on your hands starting tomorrow, why not take the opportunity to enjoy the new releases coming out early in 2026? DEAD MAN’S WIRE – In Theaters January 9 Directed by Gus Van Sant Starring Bill Skarsgård, with Dacre Montgomery and Cary Elwes What is it about?
Sunday Scaries: The Best Performances in Horror from 2025
Welcome to another installment of my countdown of the year’s best performances in horror movies! Last time, I went with the general consensus and declared Demi Moore the best horror performer of 2024. Not the most idiosyncratic pick, but what can I say? Sometimes the masses and the Academy get it right. They may get it right once again when it comes to a particular breakout role in a horror hit from 2025, but more on that later.
So... Does 'Avatar' Have A Lasting Cultural Footprint?
By the time you read this article, Avatar: Fire and Ash will have taken in $1 billion at the global box office. This makes it the only film series ever created with three consecutive billion-dollar hits, and James Cameron the only filmmaker in history to have directed four billion-dollar hits. Consecutively.
The More Truth He Tells, The Worse It Gets
Note: Spoilers for The Insider are discussed in this article. Once upon a time, it was possible for a box office bomb to receive multiple Academy Award nominations. If it was good enough, and had enough muscle from big stars and well-regarded producers and directors, and had close-to-unanimous critical acclaim, a film could be nominated for Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, and Sound… even if winning any of them was another matter entirely.
Death Cannot Stop True Love. All It Can Do Is Delay It For A While.
Note: Spoilers ahead for Stand by Me. You can do everything right. You can make the most of your life, work hard, be a delight to your friends, a devoted husband and father, try your best to make the world a better place, yet still, horrible things can happen to you for no good reason. We were all reminded of this awful reality earlier this week upon learning the news that Rob Reiner, the beloved filmmaker and actor, was killed along with his wife Michele Singer Reiner. Killed.
Sunday Scaries: The Worst Year for "Elevated" Horror
Note: This article contains spoilers for Keeper, Together, Bring Her Back, Sinners, and Weapons. At the start of this decade, I mused on a possible decline in the trend of horror movies with ambitious themes, heavier visual aesthetics, and a more “arthouse” appeal being the dominant form of the genre in favor of more tonally audacious and less thematically heady movies in the future.
On the December Radar...
Happy Honda Days, everyone! How are we all doing right now? Yeah… yeah, same. Things are looking kinda glum near the close of a pretty glum year. But still, let us try to keep our spirits up as the holidays approach. After all, there is a reason why every major religion and culture has some form of celebratory tradition in the dead of winter.
Sunday Scaries: An Accumulation of Anguish
Note: Spoilers for one of the most well-known novels in the English language, and a variety of its adaptations, are discussed below. I watched a lot of Frankenstein movies during the last week of October in preparation for the latest version of the classic story from Guillermo del Toro, which is now available to stream on Netflix. At first, it was just a fun little marathon to get me “in the mood” for the Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s swing at it.
Maternal Derangement Syndrome
So, we recently saw the theatrical release of Die My Love, which Joey loved but has also been attracting divided reactions and debate from those who’ve seen it. I don’t really want to discuss the movie itself, but rather its place among an unusual swell of movies like it that have emerged in recent years.
On the November Radar...
Well, here we all are. Still in the midst of a site-wide shutdown due to some of the staff writers demanding free healthcare for undocumented commenters. This is all their fault. Don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Joey has, if anything, been given an extraordinary opportunity to lay off entire sections that contribute to waste, fraud, and abuse.
We All (Should) Know This Is A Symbol Of "The Baddies"
You know who I think are bad guys? Nazis. They are the worst. Just awful people all-around. I used to think we could all agree on that in this century, but apparently that is not the case, anymore. This is an especially puzzling phenomenon for me to observe as a movie nerd, since I grew up on films that universally portrayed Nazis as villainous.
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Remembering 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' 40 Years Later
Once upon a time, in a tropical island far away, there lived a strange woman. She wore a long gown of black lamé that fit her like a glove. But the poor thing, she was caught in a giant spider web that grew out of her own body. One day, a shipwrecked man drifted onto the beach. She fed him and cared for his wounds. She nourished him with love and brought him back to life. When he awoke, he gazed up at the spider woman and saw a perfect teardrop slide from under her mask.
Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945 1080p BluRay DD5.1 HEVC x265-RMTeam
Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945 1080p BluRay DD5.1 HEVC x265-RMTeam [RR/NF] Size: 1.9GB RMTeam x265 mkv HEVC (MAIN) / AAC (LC) HD 1920x1080 +Subtitle All releases of "Pink String and Sealing Wax" Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Genre: Drama | Thriller Directed By: Robert Hamer Cast: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson MPAA Rate: Not Rated Country: United Kingdom Original Language: English Storyline: A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a...
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Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945 480p BluRay x264-RMTeam [RR/NF/CU] Size: 326MB RMTeam mkv H264 (HIGH) / AAC (LC) 854x480 +Subtitle All releases of "Pink String and Sealing Wax" Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Genre: Drama | Thriller Directed By: Robert Hamer Cast: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson MPAA Rate: Not Rated Country: United Kingdom Original Language: English Storyline: A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical...
Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945 1080p BluRay x264-OFT
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On the Fall Radar...
I feel a little strange, and kind of guilty, posting something like this now of all times. These articles are literally designed to juice up interest, or at least discourse, around upcoming movies looking forward to an imminent commercially-available release on streaming or in theaters. But I feel like a lot of you may not have the option to see six movies over the next two months. Or even a movie, singular, in September or October.
Sunday 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 not only through its writing, but also through visual storytelling and the interactive setting it places you in.
Sunday Scaries / Make This Movie Crossover: A Psychological Anti-Her Thriller
Like a lot of people obsessed with culture and art, A.I. has been on my mind lately. Namely, how it’s propped up by an ungodly amount of venture capital money despite very few demonstrated use cases. And how it is actively promoted by vile late-stage capitalist tech bros who despise art. And how it’s exacerbating our current climate and energy crises with ungodly water and power usage.
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