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

Shards From the Fractured Mirror: Best Worst Movie, Clerks III, My Life's in Turnaround, The Shadow of the Vampire and Stardust Memories

In the latest round up of movies about filmmaking I cover a quintet of films featured in my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror

Stanley Tucci's Glorious 1998 Throwback Slapstick Comedy The Impostors Is the Best Wes Anderson Movie Wes Anderson Never Made

One of you beautiful souls paid me to see Stanley Tucci’s 1998 slapstick throwback The Impostors, which is a goddamn delight. I LOVED it!

Watching Woody in a Post-MeToo World

I was worried that I’d have a hard time watching all manner of movies with problematic figures for The Fractured Mirror but it turns out I am a totally a professional!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 25, 2022Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Joe Eszterhas, MeToo

Pod-Canon: the Cathartic Brilliance of Double Threat's "On a Zoom Call With Woody Allen"

Pod-Canon makes a triumphant return to honor Tom Scharpling and Julie Klausner’s gleeful, hilarious evisceration of Alec Baldwin and Woody Allen on their new podcast Double Threat.

Pod-CanonNathan RabinJuly 9, 2020Tom Scharpling, Julie Klausner, Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen, podcast

Apropos of Nothing and the Ghost of Woody Allen

If you were to tell my Woody Allen-obsessed ten year old self that someday Allen would write an autobiography you literally could not pay me enough to read I would think you were insane but the world is a strange and often terrible place.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 28, 2020Woody Allen, Metoo, #Metoo

Fuck Mel Gibson and Fuck Daddy's Home 2

The older I get, the less I'm able to separate artists from their art

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 3, 2017Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Mark Wahlberg