Control Nathan Rabin — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

In Honor of Deadpool & Wolverine I'm Rerunning this Piece on Ryan Reynolds' Waiting. You're Welcome

You generous bastards had me and Clint watch the dire 2005 gay panic fest Waiting…, a movie from the “Jerk with a smirk” phase of Ryan Reynolds’ career and good lord is it ever a hateful stinkeroo.

There Are Lots of Inexplicably Grim Kid's Movies from the 1980s, But Only One Has Big Bird Suffer the Trials of the Damned, 1985's Follow That Bird

A Sesame Street movie starring Big Bird should be a no-brainer, except when it’s half weird metaphor for segregation and half bizarrely dark nightmare about a good bird kidnapped and forced to perform by some very bad people.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinJuly 28, 2024

Rover Dangerfield Began as an R-Rated Movie for Adults and Flopped as a G Rated Movie for No One

Rodney is a dog in a G rated kid's film with an R-rated soul.

Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America is Even More Hysterically Wrong Than When It Came Out

Is Dinesh D'Souza's latest the absolute worst or merely unwatchable? You bastards forced me to find out for myself.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinDecember 13, 2023Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, Politics, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Nathan Rabin

Norbit Really Is the Worst

You guys are killing me!

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinDecember 1, 2023Eddie Murphy, racism, sexism, fat shaming, slut shaming

I'm Not Entirely Sure Jingle All the Way 2 Needs to Exist

You generous bastards made me watch Jingle All the Way 2, which was quite poor, but not in the manner I expected.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinNovember 30, 2023Larry the Cable Guy

The Late Period 2005 Rodney Dangerfield Vehicle Back By Midnight Is Just Sad

You generous bastards made me watch a late-period direct-to-video prison comedy that's just sad.

Control Nathan Rabin, No Respect JanuaryNathan RabinNovember 24, 2023prison, gay panic, Rodney Dangerfield

1997's Double Team Inexplicably Failed to Make Professional Oddball Dennis Rodman the Next Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dennis Rodman. A coked out of his gourd Jean-Claude Van Damme. Mickey Rourke. Exploding tigers. Life-saving Coca Cola vending machines. Tsui Hark. Are you not entertained?

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinNovember 21, 2023Mickey Rourke, Dennis Rodman, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tsui Hark

The 1994 Corey Haim/Corey Feldman Buddy Comedy Last Resort Was Not National Lampoon's Finest Moment

Not gonna lie: the first Corey Feldman movie of Corey Feldman month kind of broke me. This may be an ending as well as a beginning

Control Nathan Rabin, Feld-Month!Nathan RabinOctober 1, 2023Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, the Two Coreys

There Are Probably Better Ways to Celebrate Robert De Niro's 80th Birthday Than By Re-Running This Piece on His God-Awful Vehicle The Comedian But This Is the One We're Going With

What if Robert De Niro made a movie about stand-up comedy that was as skin-crawlingly terrible as The King Of Comedy was great? Last year, he totally did!