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The more you put into something, the more you get out of it. That has been the operating principle of my career.

Guess who’s on popular celebrity personalized video site Cameo now? Me!

A ragingly homoerotic and homophobic ad touting Ron DeSantis as the trans and gay-hating bigot of all bigots embodies everything that’s awful and destructive about the Culture War.

A fascinating new audio miniseries on Michael Jackson’s complicated life sheds fresh insight into his extraordinary, extraordinarily troubled and troubling legacy.

I’m back on Letterboxd and more active than ever! Ch-ch-check it out!

This Baby Yoda Chicken Nuggets thing has gone too far and must be stopped!

I’ve had my share of tough/bad interviews but I also have to realize that it’s a mistake to take them personally.

Twenty years? Good lord how time flies!

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

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 know you remember and love all of these classic but we need clicks, baby! Sweet, sweet clicks!

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

These real-world baddies from my own unhappy life and career could most definitely destroy Thanos the way they’ve destroyed my fragile sense of self.

The Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place 30 Day Film Challenge isn’t the first of its kind, but it is the best.

We hop onboard the toxic gossip train for a VERY deep dive into the ten-minute long Youtube video Miranda Sings Youtube superstar Colleen Ballinger made as a response to accusations of grooming, manipulating and emotionally abusing underage fans.

Babylon is the kind of wildly overreaching mess I usually adore. So why did I hate it?

Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University made a part-narrative/part documentary film about how Jesus chose Trump to be president that’s pretty fucked up.

Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey are a trio to forget in the rightfully reviled 1994 Christmas flop Trapped in Paradise.

What's it like to watch a lighthearted Bill Cosby family movie in 2017? Really fucking weird, and expectedly and unexpectedly sad and dark. 

Oh John Travolta, how come you make so many bad movies?

Richard Kelly was right. The future HAS proven more futuristic than scientists predicted.

Jackie Earle Haley’s 2015 directorial debut Criminal Activities might not have much of a reputation but it’s a sleazy good time with stellar performances from Haley, John Travolta and Edi Gathegi.

It might not look like it but Nicolas Cage’s 2016 vehicle The Trust is actually a nifty Neo-Noir with terrific performances from Cage and Elijah Wood as bored Las Vegas cops who break bad in a very big way.

The Paul Schrader-directed 2016 Neo-Noir Dog Eat Dog, which pairs Nicolas Cage with Willem Dafoe, doesn’t have much of a reputation but I dug it.

Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey are a trio to forget in the rightfully reviled 1994 Christmas flop Trapped in Paradise.

We’re back, and so is Travolta…. and nobody’s happy about it!

I dug 2005’s The Weather Man so much that I can’t stop writing about it!

One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about a supremely silly PG-13 video game-based horror film with a distractingly visor-based performance from Frankie Muniz.

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the Don Bluth’s beautifully traumatizing 1982 directorial debut The Secret of NIMH.

I finally got around to seeing the classic 1979 comedy The In-Laws. It’s hilarious!

Elizabeth Moss is a rookie cop facing down the metaphorical monster of sexism and the literal monster of a cannibalistic voodoo serial killer on the loose in this masterful entry from Fear Itself directed by the great Stuart Gordon.

One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about a glum, counter-productive anti-divorce movie called Courting Mom and Dad that accidentally illustrates why divorcing Scott Baio would actually be a VERY good thing.

Everybody loves So I Married an Axe. Murderer. Everyone is right.

Our patron-funded exploration of the most child-traumatizing films of the 1980s continues with a loving look at the impressively fucked up cult animated fantasy film The Last Unicorn, with an incredible voice cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee and Alan Arkin.