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

With 1994's On Deadly Ground Steven Seagal Got Dead Serious About Ripping Off Billy Jack and its Various Heavy-Handed Messages

Steven Seagal directed a movie. It did not go well but the results ARE extremely derivative of Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack.

1994 SeriesNathan RabinFebruary 7, 2024Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, R. Lee Ermey, John C. McGinley, Billy Bob Thornton

Mike Hodges 1972 Show Business Neo-Noir Pulp is a Fascinating Mess

1972’s Pulp, which re-teamed director Mike Hodges with his Get Carter leading man Michael Caine, is the quintessential messy, fascinating failure.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJune 27, 2023Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Mike Hodges, Mystery, detective, Noir

Forget Renfield, The Weatherman is the Nicolas Cage/Nicholas Hoult Collaboration To See

I dug 2005’s The Weather Man so much that I can’t stop writing about it!

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.

The 1996 Flop Blood & Wine Brought Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine Together for the First and Last Time For No Damn Reason At All

Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine only made one movie together, the 1996 Neo-Noir Blood and Wine. Too bad it’s a thorough disappointment with not enough Caine and WAY too much Stephen Dorff.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 16, 2023Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Caine, Stephen Dorff

Stanley Donen's Career Got Off to A Roaring Start With On the Town and Ended Bleakly With the Cinematic Sex Crime Blame It on Rio

It’s not unusual for a great filmmaker’s debut to be great and their last film an abomination, but they’re rarely as inconceivably god-awful as Singing in the Rain director Stanley Donen’s final film, 1984’s Blame it on Rio.

My World of Flops Stormy Weather Case File #197 Travolta/Cage Project #76 The Weather Man (2005)

Nicolas Cage is a sad weather man in the sneakily great 2005 cult classic The Weather Man.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #172 The Hand (1981)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Oliver Stone revisits 1981’s The Hand, a rather silly movie about an evil hand tormenting an angst-ridden cartoonist played by Michael Caine.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 8, 2021Oliver Stone, Michael Caine, Bruce McGill, shocker, Brian DePalma

Exploiting our Archives: Control Nathan and Clint: Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

This time it’s personal!

Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinApril 27, 2020Jaws, sequels, camp, Michael Caine, Film, Exploiting the Archives