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

The Notorious 1981 Flop Under the Rainbow Is Vile in Every Way

The deeply loathsome 1981 show business satire Under the Rainbow hired a hundred and fifty little people actors for its irreverent take on the making of The Wizard of Oz, albeit at a terrible cost.

Not Even a Brash Early Performance By Bruce Willis Can Save Blake Edwards' Moribund 1988 Western Mystery Sunset

My journey through the entirety of American movies about the film industry looks at one of Bruce Willis’ earliest film performances, as real-life western movie star Tom Mix in Blake Edwards’ underwhelming 1988 western mystery Sunset.

The Weirdly Smutty, DOA Animal Comedy Won Ton Ton, The Dog That Saved Hollywood Wastes Cameos From Every Senior Citizen in the Business

The director of Death Wish brings you the kind of star-studded salute to Hollywood’s past that you would expect from the creep who made Death Wish.

Fractured Mirror 2.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinApril 8, 2022Art Carney, Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Michael Winner, dogs

Exploiting our Archives: Papa Lou's Vanity Project Case File #101 Longshot (2001)

As his empire crumbled, world class grifter and disgraced boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman made a 20 million dollar vanity project that’s astonishingly bad and self-indulgent but fascinating for the insight it provides into Pearlman’s psyche.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinMarch 13, 2022boy bands, teen pop, Lou Pearlman, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake

Posting Cringe: AnnaLynne McCord's Weirdly Horny Poem for Vladimir Putin is a Morbidly Fascinating Trainwreck

To help distract us from the bloodshed in the Ukraine, AnnaLynne McCord heroically posted the purest cringe known to man, a “poem” directed to bloodthirsty monster Vladimir Putin that could not be more staggeringly misconceived.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 28, 2022Gal Gadot, AnnaLynne McCord, The Ukraine, war, politics

My World of Flops Hardboiled and Soft-Headed Case File #203 U-Turn (1997)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Oliver Stone continues with a look at his adaptation of my old TV buddy John Ridley’s Stray Dogs entitled U-Turn.

My World of Flops, No Thank U Next Case File #202/The Travolta/Cage Project #87 Next (2007)

Nicolas Cage plays a magician who can see two minutes into the future and took his stage name after his dual love for Frankenstein and Cadillacs in 2007’s Next, an ostensible Phillip K. Dick that wastes a super-fun presence with bland romance and generic action.

My World Of Flops, The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinFebruary 8, 2022

My World of Flops Runaway Lame Case File # 201 The Travolta/Cage Project #86 The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

John Travolta was paid twenty MILLION dollars to deliver the worst performance of his career as a deranged criminal in Tony Scott’s underachieving remake of a 1970s masterpiece.

My World of Flops, I Hate Sequels Case File #199/The Travolta/Cage Project #79 Be Cool (2005)

Hoo boy. This one is brutal.

My World of Flops Phony Baloney Hearts Case File #198/The Travolta/Cage Project #77 Lonely Hearts (2006)

John Travolta’s epic losing streak continues with 2006’s Lonely Hearts, a stinkeroo based on the same real-life story that inspired The Honeymoon Killers that wastes an amazing cast that includes James Gandolfini, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Scott Caan and Laura Dern.