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The Upcoming Clueless Series Gives Me an Excuse to Run This Very Silly Clickbait Piece About Alicia Silverstone

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

ClickbaitNathan RabinApril 17, 2025Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, Film

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

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

Brad Dourif Is Mesmerizingly Intense in John Huston's Brilliant 1979 Adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood

Brad Dourif month continues with a look at his mesmerizingly intense performance as an anti-religious, anti-God preacher in John Huston’s adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 religious satire Wise Blood.

Brad Dourif MonthNathan RabinJanuary 22, 2025John Huston, Brad Dourif, Harry Dean Stanton, William Hickey, Ned Beatty, satire, New Hollywood, Film

The 1988 Remake of The Blob is Shockingly Scary for a Movie About Angry, Evil Jell-O

One of you kind souls paid me to see Chuck Russell’s terrific 1988 remake of The Blob.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 15, 2025Chuck Russell, Frank Darabont, Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, remake, Film, Horror

Brad Dourif Month Continues With This Piece on 1998's Urban Legend

It’s Scream, except with urban legends instead of movies. And also terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Film, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Scream, Brad Dourif

There Are More Dignified Ways of Celebrating Nicolas Cage's Birthday Than By Rerunning This Piece on Amos & Andrew But It's The One We're Going WIth

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

Brad Dourif Month Begins a Day Early With The Exorcist III, My Shudder Pick on the Month

Brad Dourif month begins a day earlier with a fond look at his legendary performance as the Gemini Killer in William Peter Blatty’s wonderfully wacky 1990 cult classic The Exorcist III.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Brad Dourif MonthNathan RabinDecember 31, 2024George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, sequel, Film, possession, Fabio, Patrick Ewing