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There are more respectful ways to honor the great Phil Hartman on the anniversary of his death than by rerunning this piece on Houseguest but it's the one we're going with

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.

Wrestling with Rain Man in the Aftermath of My Autism Diagnosis

Best picture, must be doing something right!

The Death of a Beloved Figure is NOT The Time To Air Your Personal Grievances Against Them

Roger Corman’s passing provided a good illustration of how and how not to remember an influential, widely beloved figure.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinMay 15, 2024Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Roger Corman, RIP, mourning, faux pas, bad taste, Film

The Agonizingly Dull John Travolta/Shania Twain Vehicle Trading Paint Is About as Much Fun as Watching Paint Dry

John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.

With Shania Twain for some reason?

The Banana Splits Movie Prankishly Re-Imagined Lovable Costumed Characters as Remorseless Murderers

The Banana Splits Movie ratchets up the creepiness of The Banana Splits Show to horrific extremes.

The 2002 Fantasy Action Techno Satanic Thriller Samouraïs is Crazy, But Not Quite Crazy Enough

One of you kind souls paid me to see the bonkers martial arts Samourais. It was weird!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 22, 2024Film

Stuart Gordon's Remarkable But Too Brief Film Career Ended on a High Note with the Bleakly Funny 2007 Drama Stuck

You know who was great? Stuart Gordon. That man made a lot of good movies. Movies like 2007’s terrific and uncompromising Stuck.

I'm Rerunning this Piece on Jeremy Saville's Early Work Because We Can Never Have Enough Loqueesha Content

As part of my ongoing, obsessive coverage of Loqueesha filmmaker Jeremy Saville’s life and work, I unearth some of his early Youtube work, including such tellingly titled clips as “The Girlfriend Trainer” and “GayDate.” In a shocking, unexpected turn of events, they’re quite poor and also pretty offensive!

Elon Musk, The Academy Awards, Wokeness and the Eternal Need to Play the Victim

Elon Musk predicted that the Academy Awards would celebrate all things woke. He seems very upset that it didn’t happen that way.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinMarch 14, 2024Elon Musk, Oscars, Academy Awards, Robert Downey Jr., Woke, Alt-Right, Idiots, Film

Naked Gun 33 1/3 is a Dim Shadow of an Essential Original

The 1994 comedy The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is that rarest of creatures: a sequel that is not as good as the original.