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

I Just Barely Missed Natural Born Killers' 30th Anniversary So Here's My Piece on That Flaming Pile of Garbage

Oliver Stone gingerly threw out a screenplay by the infinitely more talented Quentin Tarantino so he could recreate Natural Born Killers in his own odious, obnoxious, insufferable image.

Ripley Has Mad Basketball Skills in the Loony 1997 Flop Alien: Resurrection But the Movie is Anything but a Slam Dunk

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2024Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Alien, Film, Sequel, Michael Wincott, Science Fiction, action

I Just Barely Missed the 30th Anniversary of the Enjoyable Bonkers JCVD Vehicle Sudden Death so I'm Rerunning My Piece On It

One of you kind souls paid me to see and write about 1995’s Sudden Death, which is all kinds of lurid fun, thanks in no small part due to Powers Boothe’s magnificent performance as the scenery-chewing villain and Jean-Claude Van Damme killing the Penguins’ mascot.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 25, 2024Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Peter Hyams, hockey, sports

My Shudder Pick of the Month is Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break, a Sly British Dark Comedy of Fame and Desperation

My Shudder pick for the month is a nifty dark comedy about a loser hell-bent on revenge.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 5, 2024

The Second Season of Cult British Science Fiction Comedy Red Dwarf Gets Off to a Grim But Inspired Start with "Kryten" and "Better Than Life"

My journey through the British cult science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf continues with a fond look at the darkly funny first two episodes of its second season.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 31, 2024

The 1973 Wicker Man is Just Like the Nicolas Cage Remake, Only Brilliant

1973’s The Wicker Man is a towering classic, a masterpiece of atmosphere and inference. Its remake is not.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 31, 2024Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, horror, film, classic, Nicolas Cage

I'm Also Rerunning this Piece on Green Lantern, Which Was Less Successful Than Deadpool & Wolverine

One of you generous weirdoes paid me seventy-five dollars to re-watch and write about the epic 2011 superhero boondoggle Green Lantern, a flop that has only gotten shittier and more ridiculous in the years since it came out.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 30, 2024Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Marvel, D.C, D.C Cinematic Universe, Deadpool

Enjoy this Rerun of 1993's Champagne and Bullets, the Craziest Movie You've Never Heard Of!

One of you wonderful weirdoes paid me to see Champagne and Bullets, an amazing piece of outsider art that suggests Tommy Wiseau remaking Cobra with plenty of Manos: The Hands of God and Miami Connection thrown in for good measure.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 21, 2024Film, Cult, Wings Hauser, William Smith

I'm rerunning this piece on Replicant, the OTHER movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme Plays Multiple Roles So I Can Focus on Finishing My next book

2001’s The Replicant, the Ringo Lam-directed movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both a mother-hating serial killer who sets single moms on fire AND the man-baby clone created to stop him is bonkers, in a good way. Plus Michael Rooker HUNTING a serial killer rather than playing one.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 17, 2024Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker

If You Were 12 Years Old in 1989, the Power Glove/Fred Savage Vehicle Was the Most Important Movie in the World

Product placement reached a new high/nadir with the hilariously shameless 1989 family melodrama The Wizard, a feature-length commercials for all things Nintendo, but particularly the Power Glove and Super Mario Brothers 3.