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Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder

I finally got around to seeing the 2023 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It’s fucking nuts! I mean that in a nice way.

It’s kind of hard to concentrate on what matters, WHAT WITH THE WORLD BEING A FLAMING GARBAGE FIRE AND ALL!

The third episode of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s HBO flop Vinyl is the best one yet! It’s actually getting good!

It might seem weird that a man writing a book about Saturday Night Live’s worst and weirdest episodes and hosts didn’t watch the show’s much ballyhooed 50th anniversary special but I’ve got my reasons!

Right-wing bozo Dan Bongino tried to insult Stephen King on Twitter.

It did not go well.

Caitlyn Jenner isn’t like all the other trans women; she’s super transphobic!

Reactionary anger towards strong-willed young people is generally a very bad thing, except for when that rage is for the obnoxious little shits Elon Musk has recruited to help him destroy the government/country.

Sketchy dudes online like to hide behind cute pictures of their children. Elon Musk does that IRL with a vengeance! He’s cosplaying as a good father.

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Nicolas Cage has got Laura Dern hotter than Georgia asphalt in David Lynch’s gleefully bonkers Southern-fried, Palme D’Or-winning Neo-Noir.

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

It’s kind of hard to concentrate on what matters, WHAT WITH THE WORLD BEING A FLAMING GARBAGE FIRE AND ALL!

It might seem weird that a man writing a book about Saturday Night Live’s worst and weirdest episodes and hosts didn’t watch the show’s much ballyhooed 50th anniversary special but I’ve got my reasons!

Right-wing bozo Dan Bongino tried to insult Stephen King on Twitter.

It did not go well.

Caitlyn Jenner isn’t like all the other trans women; she’s super transphobic!

Reactionary anger towards strong-willed young people is generally a very bad thing, except for when that rage is for the obnoxious little shits Elon Musk has recruited to help him destroy the government/country.

Sketchy dudes online like to hide behind cute pictures of their children. Elon Musk does that IRL with a vengeance! He’s cosplaying as a good father.

For Kanye West, being an asshole online is more than just a fun form of self-expression; it’s an art form he thinks that he’s mastered.

Bill Maher isn’t important, leftist or an intellectual, so we should probably stop treating him like an important leftist intellectual whose words and ideas are news-worthy.

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s much buzzed about rock world drama Vinyl was renewed after just one episode. It was all downhill from there.

You meet the strangest people at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Morbid curiosity led me to watch and write about 2022’s On the Line, an imaginary-seeming vehicle for a disgraced yet busy Mel Gibson as a prankish shock jock having one crazy night, in one of SEVEN movies he made that year.

After triumphing with the Oscar-winning Maniac Cop trilogy, writer Larry Cohen and director Wiliam Lustig reunited for 1996’s Uncle Sam, a curdled social satire/dark comedy/horror movie, which does not make good on its promise to be the most amazing film ever made.

They wanted some of that Max Headroom feeling for 1996’s Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, and they figured that since Matt Frewer is Max Headroom he must have it in spades.

In honor of President’s Day I’m re-running this article, featured in my new book The Joy of Trash, about Mike Bloomberg’s tragicomic, but mostly just hilarious attempt to buy the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

Once upon a time, a struggling fast food franchise called Rax tried to re-vamp their image with new spokesman Mr. Delicious, a depressed, broke, unhappily married loser with a drinking problem. It did not go well.

The 2017 vanity project Michael Jackson’ s Halloween portrays the late pop icon as the essence of love and childhood innocence but is redeemed by a wall-to-wall soundtrack of Michael Jackson jams.

Why are movies that get the future of technology bizarrely wrong, like The Lawnmower Man, so weirdly charming and fun? 

I had to become a dad to be able to appreciate the single most heart-breaking moment in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Five thousand words on music, memory, childhood, sadness, imprisonment, despair AND the First ever Blues Brothers Con at Old Joliet Prison. It was a trip, y’all!

It all comes down to this! Feld-Month covers Corey Feldman and his scantily clad all-female backing band Corey's Angels' shamelessly entertaining, as well as just plain shameless, Branson, variety-show-style two-hour-plus live extravaganza in Atlanta. It's uh, well, it's something. Just read!

In this piece collected in my new book The Joy of Trash, I explore the infinite humiliations of Gal Gadot and Friends’ notorious cover of “Imagine” by some jerk.

Some pieces age better than others. This piece from 2020 that is collected in The Joy of Trash flippantly argued that there was nothing Jeremy Renner could do that would make us all forget his dumb app. Turns out I was VERY wrong.

For the first entry in My Year of Flops II: The Desolation of Smaug we do a VERY deep dive into Kevin Spacey’s bonkers Youtube video Let Me Be Frank.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

We know you remember and love all of these classic but we need clicks, baby! Sweet, sweet clicks!