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

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's Flop HBO Drama Vinyl Gets Into the Groove With Its Third Episode, "Whispered Secrets"

The third episode of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s HBO flop Vinyl is the best one yet! It’s actually getting good!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 25, 2025Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, Jack Quaid, Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's Flop TV Flop Continues to Be Much Too Much in Its Second Episode, "Yesterday Once More"

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s much buzzed about rock world drama Vinyl was renewed after just one episode. It was all downhill from there.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 31, 2025Bobby Canavale, Ray Romano, Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, cocaine, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid

Andrew "Dice" Clay Cosplays as Alfred Molina in Boogie Nights in the Strangely Underwhelming Pilot for Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's Vinyl

My journey through the much buzzed-about 2016 drama Vinyl begins with a look at its heavy-handed and underwhelming Martin Scorsese-directed pilot.

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

How Success Spoiled Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro’s riveting turn in Killers of the Flower Moon is a potent reminder of both what he’s capable of and just how far he has fallen.

Neither Memes Nor Mr. Police Can Save the Notorious, Clueless 2017 Flop The Snowman

Great meme, terrible movie.

De Palma and the Harsh Reality of Being an Older Filmmaker in a Culture That Worships Youth and Reviles the Elderly

It’s hard out there for filmmakers of a certain age.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 24, 2023Brian De Palma, John Singleton, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Jolson Rides Again, The Legend of Lylah Claire, Once in a Lifetime, The Pretenders, Shrink, Sweet Liberty, With Friends Like These and Zeroville

This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #236 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.

The Travolta/Cage Project #58 Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage got together for 1999’s Bringing Out the Dead, a pitch-black paramedic comedy of sin and salvation that, in an unsurprising turn of events is very intense and pretty fucking terrific.