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

The 2002 James Coburn Vehicle American Gun is a Promising Character Study of Grief Ruined by an Idiotic Twist Ending

James Coburn’s final film is a dour story about grief and mourning with a super extra crazy terrible twist ending that fucking sucks.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 23, 2023James Coburn, Virginia Madsen

The Travolta/Cage Project #37 Deadfall (1993)

Nicolas Cage gives one of his most transcendently insane performances in Deadfall, an otherwise absolute dire hard-boiled crime movie co-written by the Green Book guy.

The Second Civil War (1997)

Phil Hartman Month closes on a high note with a fond look back at Hartman’s hilarious performance as a ragingly ineffectual President of the United States in 1997’s The Second Civil War, Joe Dante’s almost eerily prescient political and media satire about a near-future US driven to the point of civil war over the issue of immigration.

Phil Hartman MonthNathan RabinJune 29, 2020Dick Miller, Phil Hartman, Film, James Coburn, Beau Bridges, Denis Leary, Joe Dante, Satire

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #100 Cross of Iron (1977)

Our patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Sam Peckinpah comes to an end with 1977’s Cross of Iron, an even grimmer than usual bloodbath pitting Nazis against Russians at the end of World War II.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #66 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

One of you kind souls paid me to see all of Sam Peckinpah’s movies. We’re up to 1973’s troubled, mesmerizing Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, which brought together a young Bob Dylan, a 36 year old Billy The Kid, a whole bunch of dead chickens and James Coburn enjoying the simultaneous sexual services of four beautiful prostitutes.