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

In 1994's Xenophobic Blue Tiger a Grief-Stricken Virginia Madsen Wages War With the Yakuza Using Her Ripe Sexuality as a Weapon

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with the grim 1994 revenge thriller Blue Tiger, where the actress wreaks vengeance on the Yakuza the sexiest possible way: through sex!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 9, 2022Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, Harry Dean Stanton

1987's Slam Dance is an Erotic Thriller. It's NOT About Dancing, Except It is, a Little

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen hits Slam Dance, a Wayne Wang-directed thriller that’s all style and no substance.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #236 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #213 Playback (1996)

My perversely obscure, random patron-funded exploration of the films and television projects of Tawny Kitaen comes to an appropriately obscure, random end with a look at Playback, a business-themed erotic theater that paired Kitaen with DTV erotic thriller queen Shannon Whirry and the slumming likes of Harry Dean Stanton and George Hamilton.

Harry Dean Stanton and Public Mourning

The late, great character actor (and all-around character) Harry Dean Stanton wasn't a big star, but he's being mourned like one, and that's fucking awesome.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinSeptember 21, 2017Harry Dean Stanton