Fractured Mirror 2.0 — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

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 Big Whoop, Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinApril 10, 2025Harvey Weinstein, Barbie, Marilyn Monroe

I Watched the Kick-Ass Six and a Half Hour Friday the 13th Documentary Crystal Lake Memories for my Upcoming Book The Fractured Mirror, So I'm Getting a Happy Place Piece Out of It As Well

I recently watched the six hour and forty minute long Friday the 13th documentary Crystal Lake Memories for my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror so you better believe I made the most of that time with a Happy Place piece on this essential film.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJuly 12, 2024

There's Probably a More Dignified Way to Commemorate Ryan O'Neal's Death Than By Re-Running This Piece on An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn But It's the One We're Going With

I will see and write about EVERYTHING for The Fractured Mirror book, even this abomination.

You’re welcome.

There Are Probably Better Ways to Honor The Great Tony Bennett Than By Re-Running This Piece on His Terrible Performance in The Oscar But That's the One We're Going With

Tony Bennett delivered a hilariously terrible, star-breaking turn as a bohemian Jewish hustler in the star-studded 1966 flop The Oscar, written by notorious crank Harlan Ellison

Fractured Mirror 2.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJuly 21, 2023Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Harlan Ellison

The Movie Mad 1971 Oddity The Projectionist is Notable for Reasons Beyond Rodney Dangerfield's Debut Performance

Rodney Dangerfield made his movie debut in the slight but charming movie-mad comedy The Projectionist.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJuly 19, 2023Rodney Dangerfield, Chuck McCann, Harry Hurwitz

Samuel Fuller's Career Began on a High Note with I Shot Jesse James and Ended Grimly With Street of No Return

Like so many legendary auteurs, Sam Fuller’s career began on a high note with I Shot Jesse James and limped to a close with Street of No Return.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJuly 10, 2023Sam Fuller, Jesse James, Western

The 1957 Lon Chaney Biopic Man of a Thousand Faces Is Notable Mainly For Its Powers of Prophecy and Robert Evans' Prescient Performance as Legendary Studio Executive Irving Thalberg

The 1957 Lon Chaney biopic The Man of a Thousand Faces is known primarily these days for its prescient casting of Robert Evans as Irving Thalberg and for featuring one of James Cagney’s hammiest performances.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJuly 5, 2023Lon Chaney, James Cagney, Robert Evans

Mike Hodges 1972 Show Business Neo-Noir Pulp is a Fascinating Mess

1972’s Pulp, which re-teamed director Mike Hodges with his Get Carter leading man Michael Caine, is the quintessential messy, fascinating failure.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJune 27, 2023Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Mike Hodges, Mystery, detective, Noir

The Notorious Natalie Wood Vehicle Inside Daisy Clover is a Mesmerizing Mess

Natalie Wood’s offscreen life as one of Hollywood’s most triumphant and tragic child actors lends a meta-textual resonance to her fascinating flop Inside Daisy Clover.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJune 20, 2023Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Robert Mulligan, Ruth Gordon, Hollywood

Babylon is The Kind of Wildly Excessive, Self-Indulgent Labor of Love That I Generally Dig But I Actually Hated It!

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