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

Jason Lee and 4 Other Celebrities Who Failed So Hard That They Probably Sleep On the Street Now and Use a Rat for a Pillow

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

ClickbaitNathan RabinNovember 24, 2023Jason Lee, Phoebe Cates, clickbait, parody, satire, Yo Gabba Gabba!

Russell Brand is God and Nicolas Cage Hunts Osama Bin Laden in the Unwatchable 2016 Misfire Army of One

A Larry Charles-directed satire about an American who thinks God wants him to kill Osama Bin Laden promised to be different than most of the films Nicolas Cage made around this period. Astonishingly the difference is that it’s even worse!

My Patron-Funded Exploration of Freakazoid! Comes to an End with a Reverent Appreciation of the Best Thing Steven Spielberg Has Ever Been Involved With

My patron-funded exploration of the cult superhero spoof Freakazoid! comes to a bittersweet but deeply satisfying conclusion,

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 13, 2022Steven Spielberg, superheroes, satire, David Warner, finale, cult, silly

The 1966 Satire Lord Love a Duck is a Seriously Strange Motion Picture

George Axelrod’s 1966 satire Lord Love a Duck is one of the weirdest movies ever released by an American studio as well as a goddamn mess.

The Fractured Mirror 2.0 #35 Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

For the spooky season we take a fond gander at the nifty slasher satire Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinOctober 17, 2022Robert Englund, Zelda Rubenstein, Scott Wilson, Kane Hodder, satire, slasher, horror, rockumentary

Joel Schumacher Triumphed with Debut The Incredible Shrinking Woman and Stumbled with his Abysmal Final Film, 2011's Trespass

Like many filmmakers, Joel Schumacher’s directorial debut got off to a promising start and ended bleakly with 2011’s abysmal home invasion thriller Trespass.

John Waters' Movie World Satire Cecil B. Demented Is a Gloriously Scuzzy Tribute to Guerrilla Filmmaking

Cecil B. Demented, John Waters’ tribute to guerrilla filmmaking of the purest kind, is warped and wonderful. Also, very sweet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #243 G.B.F. (2013)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart explores 2013’s G.B.F., a sweet but heavy-handed teen sex comedy that reunited her with the writer-director of Jawbreaker.

My World of Flops, Trigger Happy Case File #189 The Survivors (1983)

Lovable Losers/Bad With Money Month gets off to a bit of a sleepy start with a look at Michael Ritchie’s muddled 1983 survivalist satire The Survivors, with Walter Matthau as a lovable everyman and Robin Williams as a right-wing gun nut/militia member. Its problems include casting Robin Williams as a right wing gun nut/militia member.

The Travolta/Cage Project Extra: Die Hart (2020)

A relaxed, bald and very fun John Travolta and Quibi scored surprising victories when the sly and funny action movie satire Die Hart became the first Quibi production to get picked up elsewhere, in this case the Roku Channel.