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

A Kooky Scientist Played by Val Kilmer Traps Six Sexy Singles in a Steam Room to Make a Muddled Point About Global Warming in the Delightfully Insane 2009 Thriller The Chaos Experiment

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.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 16, 2025Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, Patrick Muldoon

The Semi-Random Rerun of the day is the muddled 1991 Bill Maher vehicle Pizza Man

Before they became real-world best friends, Bill Maher faced off against a fictional Donald Trump in the abysmal 1991 political comedy Pizza Man.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 15, 2025

Val Kilmer Channels Pistachio Disguisey in the Proudly Preposterous 1997 Vehicle The Saint

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.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 14, 2025Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Evans, Simon Wincer, Roger Moore

The Random Rerun of the Day is Guy Ritchie's Kabbalah-influenced 2005 Stinker Revolver

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.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 13, 2025Ray Liotta, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie

The Looming Great Depression Makes the Terrific, Economic Downturn-based 2019 Dark Comedy Hustlers Almost Too Real and Relatable

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

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Stephen King-Approved The Rule of Jenny Pen, a Compelling Look at the Horror of Aging With Great Turns from John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

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.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 31, 2025John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, horror, nursing home, Film, New Zealand

The Controversial 1989 Shocker The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover Gives New Meaning to the Phrase "Eat a dick"

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 26, 2025Helen Mirren, Michael Chabon, Peter Greenaway, Film

My Journey Through the Cult Science Fiction Comedy Red Dwarf Continues with the Shape-Shifting Absurdity of "Polymorph" and "Bodyswap"

Chameleonic life forms? No thanks!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 24, 2025

Today's Random-Ass Rerun of the day is the 2010 Hilary Duff Vehicle Beauty & the Briefcase

One of you glorious sadists paid me a hundred dollars to watch a Cosmopolitan-themed Hillary Duff vehicle from 2010 whose hilariously regressive gender politics belong somewhere in the pre-Cosmopolitan 1950s.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 23, 2025Hilary Duff, Cosmopolitan

Wings Hauser's Death Gives Me Yet Another Reason to Rerun this piece on 1993's Champagne and Bullets, the Craziest Movie You've Never Heard Of!

One of you wonderful weirdoes paid me to see Champagne and Bullets, an amazing piece of outsider art that suggests Tommy Wiseau remaking Cobra with plenty of Manos: The Hands of God and Miami Connection thrown in for good measure.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 22, 2025Film, Cult, Wings Hauser, William Smith