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You don’t have to be the autistic father of autistic children to be appalled by RFK Jr’s ignorant comments about autism but it sure doesn’t hurt!

I’ve been a full time freelancer for a solid decade now. To say it has been a challenge be and understatement.

Robert Downey Jr. and writer-director Shane Black leaped back onto the A-list with the beloved 2005 dark comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. People expected it to do wonders for Val Kilmer as well, but he spent much of the next decade cranking out interchangeable direct to video cheapies, many costarring 50 Cent.

Bill Maher went to the White House with Kid Rock and discovered that Donald Trump is a wonderful human being who sincerely and enthusiastically laughed his hilarious, hard-hitting, “politically incorrect” comedy. He may even have made a new friend! How fun!

The low-budget, direct-to-video Barbie movie My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie snagged a cameo from an Oscar-winning big shot. Unfortunately for all involved, the Hollywood player was Harvey Weinstein.

The Joe Dante-directed 2005 satire Homecoming very overtly addresses the iniquity and madness of the Iraq War but is timelier now than ever.

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

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

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

Great meme, terrible movie.

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

Trucks. Monsters. Monster trucks. What's not to love? 

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

I finally got around to seeing 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and it’s so bad that it’s making me re-think my decision to devote my life to Star Wars fandom.

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

Hey, you know what movie is great? Get Shorty. That movie is SO good.

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Nicolas Cage has got Laura Dern hotter than Georgia asphalt in David Lynch’s gleefully bonkers Southern-fried, Palme D’Or-winning Neo-Noir.

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

A perfectly cast Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery are a mismatched buddy team for the ages in Michael Bay’s uncharacteristically enjoyable 1996 action adventure The Rock.

John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.

With Shania Twain for some reason?

A lunatic played by the late Val Kilmer traps six sexy singles, including Eric Roberts, in a locked steamroom to make a muddled point about global warming in the insane, Steve Bannon-produced 2009 thriller The Chaos/Steam Experiment.

One of you kind souls paid me to write about one of the late Val Kilmer’s stupidest movies, the Robert Evans-produced 1997 adaptation of The Saint.

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Guy Ritchie’s fascination with the Kabbalah, for example, inspired one of his shittiest movies, 2005’s Revolver.

We’re headed For hard times, which makes the recession-fueled 2019 hit Hustlers, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lopez, painfully relatable.

For my Shudder pick of the month, I watched a compelling New Zealand horror movie about the agony of old age, with terrific performances by Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as a lunatic who does sick things with the titular baby doll puppet.