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

My Shudder Pick of the Month is We Kill for Love, a Nearly Three Hour Long Deep Dive Into the Lost World of Direct-to-Video Erotic Thrillers

For my Shudder pick of the month, I chose We Kill For Love, a nearly three hour long deep dive into direct-to-video thrillers from the 1990s.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 18, 2025

Announcing the Sweaty Summer Desperation Sale at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas!

My family has been suffering the trials of Job for the last month or so. I’m hoping for a little reprieve.

For my Sweaty Summer Desperation sale, I’m cutting the already low price of a paid subscription to Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas IN HALF! I’ll make you such a deal!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 17, 2025

Great News for the Powerful! No Other Famous People Were Involved in Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy's Massive, Decades-Long Sex Trafficking Ring and No Further Investigation is Needed!

Diddy’s arrest and trial promised a reckoning for the disgraced mogul and the many mega-celebrities in his orbit that never came, not unlike how Jeffrey Epstein apparently ran a massive sex trafficking ring for decades without writing anything down or threatening anyone with exposure.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 17, 2025

It's Crazy That Michel Gondry and Pharrell Williams' Period Musical Golden Was Cancelled and Will Never Be Released, Yet No One Seems to Have Noticed

The Oscar-winning genius behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made a coming of age period musical with hit-maker Pharrell Williams that, unfortunately, will never be available for public consumption because its creators all agree that it missed the mark.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 16, 2025Pharrell Williams, Michel Gondry, cancelled film, musical

The Tragic Life and Career of Mickey Rourke, Creep

Mickey Rourke was once in a position to say no to some of the choicest roles and movies of the 1980s and 1990s. Now he apparently does not turn down anything, including humiliating turns on The Masked Singer and Big Brother, where he once again made the wrong kind of headlines for bullying Jojo Siwa, a 21-year-old young enough to be his granddaughter

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 15, 2025Mickey Rourke

Trump nominating Twitter Buffoon/Self-Styled Alpha Male Nick Adams Ambassador to Malaysia Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Him

Nick Adams’ Twitter feed is a hilarious parody of MAGA meathead idiocy or maybe it’s just the work of a genuine MAGA meathead idiot. It’s hard to tell!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 10, 2025Nick Adams, Donald Trump, MAGA

The Great Good-Bad Conundrum: Do Transcendent Stinkers Like The Oscar and The Lonely Lady Belong on a List of the 100 Best American Movies About Filmmaking or the Worst?

I wrote epic lists of the 100 best and worst American movies about filmmaking for my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror and wondering where all-time fiascoes like The Oscar, The Lonely Lady and Valley of the Dolls belongs.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 10, 2025

The Eternal Timeliness of the Clickhole Headline, "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point"

The Clickhole story “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made an Excellent Point will forever be relevant.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 9, 2025

M3GAN 2.0 and the Unexpected Origin of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work"

Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” is an unexpected highlight of M3GAN 2.0 but it actually owes its existence to an earlier, much sappier motion picture.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 8, 2025Kevin Bacon, Kate Bush, John Hughes, M3GAN, Allison Williams

It's Been Tough

Between parental death, plumbing catastrophes, and surprise emergency surgery, my family has been suffering the trials of Job as of late.

An update on how things have been going: not well!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 3, 2025