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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.

Geraldo Rivera shared a story on Twitter designed to make Larry David and Barack Obama look bad. Instead, it made them seem awesome

The Banana Splits Movie ratchets up the creepiness of The Banana Splits Show to horrific extremes.

Dwayne Johnson is a fearless badass who can handle anything, except for one of his films flopping and Republicans being mad at him.

One of you kind souls paid me to see the bonkers martial arts Samourais. It was weird!

This Nicolas Cage vehicle is g-g-g-rounded until all of the g-g-g-ghosts!

Nicolas Cage has made a LOT of movies. Some of them are pretty crummy, like the overwrought 2019 Southern Gothic melodrama Grand Isle.

This Nicolas Cage vehicle is g-g-g-rounded until all of the g-g-g-ghosts!

Nicolas Cage has made a LOT of movies. Some of them are pretty crummy, like the overwrought 2019 Southern Gothic melodrama Grand Isle.

In a real change of pace, John Travolta, late in his career, that was not good.

Geraldo Rivera shared a story on Twitter designed to make Larry David and Barack Obama look bad. Instead, it made them seem awesome

Dwayne Johnson is a fearless badass who can handle anything, except for one of his films flopping and Republicans being mad at him.

Sydney Sweeney just wants to live her life but the right keep nonsensically claiming her as their anti-Woke queen.

Donald Trump could not be prouder of his mugshot. That is sad.

Elon Musk predicted that the Academy Awards would celebrate all things woke. He seems very upset that it didn’t happen that way.

Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Corey Feldman’s appearance on Wife Swap makes him look far worse than any tabloid hatchet job possibly could.

John Candy and Eugene Levy ended up playing roles intended for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in a misfiring buddy cop movie screenwriter Harold Ramis tried to get his name taken off of for reasons that are very easy to understand.

I had to become a dad to be able to appreciate the single most heart-breaking moment in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Five thousand words on music, memory, childhood, sadness, imprisonment, despair AND the First ever Blues Brothers Con at Old Joliet Prison. It was a trip, y’all!

It all comes down to this! Feld-Month covers Corey Feldman and his scantily clad all-female backing band Corey's Angels' shamelessly entertaining, as well as just plain shameless, Branson, variety-show-style two-hour-plus live extravaganza in Atlanta. It's uh, well, it's something. Just read!

In this piece collected in my new book The Joy of Trash, I explore the infinite humiliations of Gal Gadot and Friends’ notorious cover of “Imagine” by some jerk.

Some pieces age better than others. This piece from 2020 that is collected in The Joy of Trash flippantly argued that there was nothing Jeremy Renner could do that would make us all forget his dumb app. Turns out I was VERY wrong.

In honor of President’s Day I’m re-running this article, featured in my new book The Joy of Trash, about Mike Bloomberg’s tragicomic, but mostly just hilarious attempt to buy the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

For the first entry in My Year of Flops II: The Desolation of Smaug we do a VERY deep dive into Kevin Spacey’s bonkers Youtube video Let Me Be Frank.

The horror, the horror!

Once upon a time, a struggling fast food franchise called Rax tried to re-vamp their image with new spokesman Mr. Delicious, a depressed, broke, unhappily married loser with a drinking problem. It did not go well.

I FINALLY get around to writing about Insane Clown Posse’s 2010 western vehicle Big Money Rustlas.

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

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!

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.

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