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

The Banana Splits Movie Prankishly Re-Imagined Lovable Costumed Characters as Remorseless Murderers

The Banana Splits Movie ratchets up the creepiness of The Banana Splits Show to horrific extremes.

The 2002 Fantasy Action Techno Satanic Thriller Samouraïs is Crazy, But Not Quite Crazy Enough

One of you kind souls paid me to see the bonkers martial arts Samourais. It was weird!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 22, 2024Film

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.

I'm Rerunning this Piece on Jeremy Saville's Early Work Because We Can Never Have Enough Loqueesha Content

As part of my ongoing, obsessive coverage of Loqueesha filmmaker Jeremy Saville’s life and work, I unearth some of his early Youtube work, including such tellingly titled clips as “The Girlfriend Trainer” and “GayDate.” In a shocking, unexpected turn of events, they’re quite poor and also pretty offensive!

Elon Musk, The Academy Awards, Wokeness and the Eternal Need to Play the Victim

Elon Musk predicted that the Academy Awards would celebrate all things woke. He seems very upset that it didn’t happen that way.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinMarch 14, 2024Elon Musk, Oscars, Academy Awards, Robert Downey Jr., Woke, Alt-Right, Idiots, Film

Naked Gun 33 1/3 is a Dim Shadow of an Essential Original

The 1994 comedy The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is that rarest of creatures: a sequel that is not as good as the original.

1994's The Chase is an Amiable Goof. Too Bad About Stars Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, However

The 1994 Charlie Sheen/Kristy Swanson vehicle The Chase has one big problem: it’s a vehicle for Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson.

1994 SeriesNathan RabinFebruary 23, 2024Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Flea, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Adam Rifkin, Film, road movie

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

My Journey Through the Films of 1994 Continues with a Mortified Look at Car 54 Where Are You, Which Had All Its Musical Sequences Cut But Still Bombed

Hoo boy. This one was NOT good.