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The Random Rerun of the Day is the Half-Forgotten 2001 Thriller Domestic Disturbance

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

My World Of Flops, Travolta/CageNathan RabinJune 11, 2025John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, thriller, Teri Polo, Fatal Attraction, Film

Nicolas Cage's Wonderfully Stupid 2012 Thriller Stolen is the Seeking Justice/Con Air Pastiche We Never Knew We Needed!

Nicolas Cage’s mostly forgotten 2012 thriller Stolen might look EXACTLY like Seeking Justice from the previous year but it’s blessed with Con Air-style execution courtesy of Cage’s Con Air director Simon West

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinNovember 28, 2022Nicolas Cage, Malin Aukerman, Malin Akerman, MC Gainey, M.C Gainey, Josh Lucas, Simon West, Danny Huston, Anson Mount, New Orleans, thriller, Credence Clearwater Revival

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.

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinOctober 5, 2022Cam Gigandet, Nicolas Cage, Ben Mendelson, Nicole Kidman, Joel Schumacher, Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, thriller, satire, Jane Wagner

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #202 Puppet (1999)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with a particularly random obscurity in 1999’s Puppet, a hilariously terrible thriller distinguished mainly by off the wall early performances by Artie Lange as a Russian enforcer and Jim Gaffigan as a horny, profane newlywed.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 18, 2021Tawny Kitaen, Jim Gaffigan, Artie Lange, Fred Weller, thriller, The Room

The Travolta/Cage Project #55 8MM (1999)

The only thing keeping Joel Schumacher’s 1999 Neo-Noir 8MM from being a harrowing glimpse into humanity’s seedy underbelly is that it’s incredibly stupid and silly, and has roughly the verisimilitude of Warriors of Virtue.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinMarch 11, 2021Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Schumacher, thriller, Andrew Kevin Walker, pornography, snuff films

My World of Flops Coked up Case File #174 The Travolta/Cage Project #53 Snake Eyes (1998)

Nicolas Cage is a very bad cop investigating a sinister conspiracy at an Atlantic City boxing match in Brian DePalma’s enjoyably ludicrous 1998 tour-de-force Snake Eyes.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 22, 2021Nicolas Cage, Carla Gugino, Gary Sinise, thriller, Atlantic City, Flop

My World of Flops Bad Flick, M.A.A.D Shitty Case File #173/The Travolta/Cage Project #51 Mad City (1997)

Hoo boy. This movie is like my ex-wife’s meatloaf surprise: NOT GOOD!

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 9, 2021John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, thriller, flop, Madison, hostage thriller

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #125 The Ninth Gate (1999)

One of you kind souls paid me to see The Ninth Gate, a spectacularly silly Roman Polanski thriller about a book detective searching for a book adapted from a book by a very special author: the devil.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 15, 2020Johnny Depp, Roman Polanski, #MeToo, Frank Langella, thriller, Lena Olin, Satan, horror, books, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0