Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

In 1988 Frightmaster Stuart Gordon and SCTV Teamed Up for a Child Safety Video Starring Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd That's Better Than It Has Any Right to Be

Stuart Gordon + SCTV? It happened, for a 1988 children’s instructional safety video, of all things.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 2, 2024Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, SCTV, Stuart Gordon

The 1990 It's a Wonderful Life Spin-Off Clarence Is the Least Necessary Follow-Up This Side of Easy Rider: The Ride Back

No one asked for it, but in 1990, they made an It’s a Wonderful Life spin-off about Clarence’s further adventures.

It was not good.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 27, 2024Robert Carradine, spin-off, TV Movie, It's a Wonderful Life, angel

Stuart Gordon's Remarkable But Too Brief Film Career Ended on a High Note with the Bleakly Funny 2007 Drama Stuck

You know who was great? Stuart Gordon. That man made a lot of good movies. Movies like 2007’s terrific and uncompromising Stuck.

"Form and Void" Ends the First Season of True Detective in a Deeply Satisfying Way

We have reached the end.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 20, 2024Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, TV, Michelle Monaghan

The Bonkers 1978 Cult Classic Stunt Rock Has It All: Mind-blowing Stunts, Theatrical Rock and Roll, Magic, The Devil, Wizardry and Phil Hartman's Film Debut

What if I told you that there was a magical movie that combined mind-blowing stunts, rock and roll, wizards, the devil and Phil Hartman’s film debut? That might much too good to be true but it all came together in 1978’s Stunt Rock, possibly the greatest movie ever made.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 4, 2024Grant Page, rock and roll, Phil Hartman, Australia

2001's Angel Eyes Confusingly Casts Jim Caviezel as the Male Version of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

I thought this was a movie about Jennifer Lopez fucking a sexy homeless ghost.

I was wrong.

Or was I?

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 28, 2024Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Louis Mandoki

"After You've Gone" Is True Detective at its Most Straightforward and Least Compelling

We’re only an episode away from the finale of True Detective. Get ready for an anti-climax.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 26, 2024Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey

The 1990 Television Movie Daughter of the Darkness Found Auteur Stuart Gordon Chafing Against the Restrictions of Network Television

Stuart Gordon is a true auteur as well as a frightmaster but his 1990 television movie Daughter of Darkness is distressingly impersonal despite a solid turn from Anthony Perkins as an Eastern European vampire with dignity.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 21, 2024Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Stuart Gordon, TV movie, Film

Beyond the Lead Characters Being Identical, David Cronenberg's 1988 Masterpiece Dead Ringers is NOTHING Like The Parent Trap

One of you kind souls paid me to finally get around to seeing Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg’s 1988 masterpiece of chilly body horror, with an extraordinarily lead performance by Jeremy Irons as identical twin doctors in trouble.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 2, 2024David Cronenberg, body horror, Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, medicine, doctor, Film, Canadian, cult

The Notorious Highlander 2: The Renegade Version Offers a, Shall We Say, Unique Look at Life in the Year 2024

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to re-experience 1991’s Highlander 2: Renegade Version, one of the most famously terrible movies ever made, and for that I thank you.