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

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Dirty Movie, Another Dirty Movie, SImone, 3 Geezers, Wizard of Speed and Time

In this latest installment of 3 Geezers, I write about some movies about movies that fucking suck, like National Lampoon's Dirty Movie, National Lampoon’s Another Dirty Movie, 3 Geezers, Simone, as well as the terrific The Wizard of Speed and Time.

ShardsNathan RabinDecember 1, 2022Film, Robert Klein, Jonathan Silverman, Mario Cantone, Al Pacino, Andrew Niccol, J.K. Simmons, Tim Allen, Sam Raimi, Catherine Keener

Oliver Stone's Endless, Exhausting 1999 Football Melodrama Any Given Sunday is a LOT, Some of It Good!

Jamie Foxx delivers a star-making performance as a brash superstar quarterback in 1999’s Any Given Sunday, an overstuffed, messy and occasionally inspired football melodrama.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 28, 2022Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, football, Charlton Heston, James Woods, LL Cool J, Lela Rochon, Ann-Margret, Aaron Eckhart, Matthew Modine

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #250 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

For the landmark 250th entry in the column that let’s YOU choose the movies I watch and write about, I wrote about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. What a picture!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 16, 2021Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Walton Goggins, Bruce Dern, Rebecca Gayheart, Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood, The Broken Mirror, Broken Mirror, Kurt Russell, Bruce Lee, stuntman, Academy Award winner

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #36 Dick Tracy (1990)

One of you kind souls paid me seventy five dollars to re-experience Dick Tracy, the cinematic sensation of 1990 and a delightful exercise in escapism that holds up pretty damn well.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 10, 2019Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, blockbuster, Madonna, Dick Tracy