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

My Piece on The Jaleel White Special Gave Me an Excuse to Re-Run This Piece on the Insane Animated Special Our Friend, Martin, Where White Voices MLK

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

There Are More Dignified Ways of Celebrating Nicolas Cage's Birthday Than By Rerunning This Piece on Amos & Andrew But It's The One We're Going WIth

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Honor the Late Richard Roundtree Than By Re-Running This Piece on the Godawful Shaft Reboot But It's the One We're Going With

Nearly two decades after the release of 2000’s Shaft they decided to make a sequel re-imagining the formerly coolest motherfucker on the planet as your cranky boomer uncle. The film, and the idea, were both #Quitepoor

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinOctober 25, 2023Samuel L. Jackson, sequel, blaxploitation, Shaft, Richar Roundtree

Chris Rock Goes Horror in 2021's Weirdly Underwhelming Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Chris Rock REALLY wanted to do a Saw movie. So he did. I still can’t quite figure out why.

Great Catch UpNathan RabinOctober 24, 2023Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Saw, torture porn, sequel

With 1994's Hail Caesar, Anthony Michael Hall Struck out as a Leading Man, First-Time Director AND, God Help Us, Rock and Roller

Anthony Michael Hall only directed one movie, 1994’s Hail Caesar. It is quite poor.

Shaft's Lame Meme Game

The Twitter feed for the wildly unnecessary new Shaft movie turns the coolest motherfucker on the planet into a surly, millennials-hating crank. It is NOT an improvement.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinDecember 14, 2022Samuel L. Jackson, memes, Twitter

The 2009 Manga Adaptation Astro Boy is the Confused Marxist A.I Knock-Off We Never Knew We Didn't Need

This is not good.

The Hateful Eight Is Quentin Tarantino at his Most Brutal and Uncompromising

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the epic Netflix miniseries version of The Hateful Eight, the only Tarantino movie I hadn’t seen. It more than lives up to its reputation for being unrelentingly nasty and difficult.

My World of Flops Basic-Ass Entertainment for Dads Case File #185/The Travolta/Cage Project #68

John Travolta investigates murders (or does he?) in the insultingly twisty thriller Basic, which is technically a different movie than The General’s Daughter but also pretty much the same.

The Travolta/Cage Project #43: Kiss of Death (1995)

Nicolas Cage is Little Junior Brown, a charismatic maniac with a taste for blood in Barbet Schroeder’s tough, compelling remake of the classic 1947 Film Noir Kiss of Death.