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

The Little Loved 1991 John Candy Vehicle Delirious is a Pleasant Surprise

Sometimes movies surprise you by not being terrible. The 1991 flop Delirious is one such non-stinker.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 14, 2023John Candy, Emma Samms, David Rasche, Mariel Hemingway, Tom Mankiewitz, soap opera, Raymond Burr, Charles Rocket, meta, television, writers, writing 55 Comments

Bob Fosse's Extraordinary Directorial Career Began and Ended Big with Sweet Charity and Star 80

Choreographer turned auteur Bob Fosse only made a handful of movies, but they all mattered, including his spectacular debut Sweet Charity and punishingly intense final film, Star 80.

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinJanuary 31, 2023Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Fosse, Sammy Davis Jr, Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Roger Rees, Chippendales, musical, Film, New Hollywood, Ricardo Montalban, David Clennon, Carroll Baker 12 Comments

Not Even a Brash Early Performance By Bruce Willis Can Save Blake Edwards' Moribund 1988 Western Mystery Sunset

My journey through the entirety of American movies about the film industry looks at one of Bruce Willis’ earliest film performances, as real-life western movie star Tom Mix in Blake Edwards’ underwhelming 1988 western mystery Sunset.

My World Of Flops, Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinApril 12, 2022Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, M. Emmet Walsh, Blake Edwards, Mariel Hemingway 57 Comments

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #248 Creator (1985)

My patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Virginia Madsen with a look at the muddled 1985 romantic comedy-drama, which was sold as a romantic comedy about Peter O’Toole trying to resurrect his dead wife but is actually more about Vincent Spano dealing with a girlfriend in a coma.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 2, 2021Peter O'Toole, Virginia Madsen, Mariel Hemingway, David Odgen Stiers, video stores 34 Comments

Tales From the Crypt, Season Three, Episode One: "Loved To Death"

Season three of Tales From the Crypt kicks off with a nudity-filled but unremarkable exploration of lust gone horribly, violently awry starring Andrew McCarthy and an impressively unclothed Mariel Hemingway of THE Hemingway family.

Spookthology of TerrorNathan RabinJanuary 8, 2020Mariel Hemingway, Andrew McCarthy 8 Comments

The Sinister Incels of Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt’s cynical portrayal of desperate, weak men who will do anything to overcome their personal and sexual inadequacies looks particular incisive and prescient these days.

Big-ass articles, Spookthology of TerrorNathan RabinOctober 17, 2019incel, sexism, MRA, Men's rights, Andrew McCarthy, Mariel Hemingway, David Hemmings, Tales from the Crypt, Crypt-Keeper 13 Comments