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

There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Remember Dabney Coleman Than By Re-Running This Piece on Hot to Trot But We're Doing So All The Same

The talking horse comedy Hot to Trot is like my ex-wife’s Meatloaf Surprise: not good!

The 1994 Most Dangerous Game Variation Surviving the Game is Buseytastic!

My journey through the films of 1994 continues with a fond look at 1994’s Surviving the Game, a Most Dangerous Game adaptation starring Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton, Jeff Corey, and John C. McGinley. It’s quite the testosterone-fueled sausage fest!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 15, 2024Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

A Quarter Century On Hype Williams' Belly Remains a Visual Masterpiece and a Goddamned Mess In Every Other Way

Hype Williams made a big leap from hotshot music video director to filmmaker with 1998’s Belly, a stunning, incoherent cult classic that has aged in a really interesting way.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 13, 2024Hype Williams, Nas, DMX, Method Man, Hip Hop, cult, late 1990s

My Journey Through the Cult British Science Fiction Show Red Dwarf Begins with "The End" and "Future Echoes"

One of you kind souls paid for me to write up the cult British science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 29, 2024TV, British, science-fiction \

My Epic Journey Through Stuart Gordon's Life's Work Ends on a Slight Note with his 1979 TV Adaptation of the Chicago Theater Staple Bleacher Bums

My epic journey through Stuart Gordon’s life’s work comes to a close with a look back at his taped TV adaptation of the Chicago theater staple Bleacher Bums.