Ruth Gordon swears, Clyde the Orangutan drinks beer and flips the bird and Clint Eastwood beats up fat old men, sometimes in motorcycle gang-sized groups, in an iconic blockbuster that, honestly, isn't that great.
In 1980, natural treasure Clint Eastwood made a second movie pairing him with an alcoholic, horny ape that was quite poor, if not quite as egregiously terrible as its predecessor.
Saturday Night Live taped a live special at Mardi Gras in 1977.
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.
One of you kind patrons paid me to experience the surreal lunacy of Moonwalker, the trippy, weirdly revealing 1988 vanity project he made to promote Bad.
I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.
In a surprisingly positive, healthy development, I’m going to start charging for shipping at the store’s shop.
A whole lot of intense emotions come with late diagnosed ADHD/Autism, many of them complicated and painful.
The Travolta/Cage Project
Nathan Rabin loves John Travolta and Nicolas Cage so much he’s committed to watching EVERY movie they’ve appeared in for a column that will take a good five years to finish, The Travolta/Cage Project, the print version of the smash-hit, impossibly lucrative podcast Travolta/Cage.
John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.
With Shania Twain for some reason?
This Nicolas Cage vehicle is g-g-g-rounded until all of the g-g-g-ghosts!
Nicolas Cage has made a LOT of movies. Some of them are pretty crummy, like the overwrought 2019 Southern Gothic melodrama Grand Isle.
The Big Whoop
Nathan Rabin has a LOT on his mind. That’s why he’s hopped onboard the blog revolution with the Big Whoop, a daily blog about fatherhood, politics, entertainment and whatever the hell else he wants to write about.
I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.
In a surprisingly positive, healthy development, I’m going to start charging for shipping at the store’s shop.
A whole lot of intense emotions come with late diagnosed ADHD/Autism, many of them complicated and painful.
Some scenes really stick with you, like the explosive opening set-piece of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving.
AI has many limitations, but they are most glaringly, horrifyingly apparent in its depiction of hands.
Can satire be effective if people don’t know it’s satire?
E.C. Comics generally trafficked in darkly comic nihilism but it opted for two-fisted idealism and blistering social commentary in Shock Suspenstories.
Kristi Noem was a rising star in the GOP until she did something only the true star of the party—Donald Trump—could get away with: murdering a puppy.
Last week, I had dental implant surgery. In a related development, I have been extremely out of it for the past seven days.
Here’s an update on my condition.
Never taking responsibility for his actions and blaming everyone else for his weaknesses sure worked out great for Donald Trump!
Hillary Clinton had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dunk on her hated rival Donald Trump in the aftermath of his conviction for 34 felonies.
She blew it.
When you express strong opinions online for 27 years, you end up hurting people’s feelings, regrettably but inevitably.
Donald Trump wants the world to know that he is the richest, most successful businessman in the history of business. But he also needs YOU to give him YOUR money for some reason.
Rando!
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.
Phil Hartman Month kicks off with a loving appreciation of the wonderfully idiotic 1995 interracial buddy comedy Houseguest, which paired the beloved Saturday Night Live funnyman with goateed 1990s jokester Sinbad.
Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Big Ass Articles
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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.
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.
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.
Clickbait
Fake news, hilarious cyber-satire that’s easy to misunderstand.
A totally non-clickbait article on why everything you love and revere sucks shit.
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!
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.
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