Jamie Lee Curtis Returned for the Post-Scream Mediocrity Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later

After Scream, slashers were hot, so Jamie Lee Curtis returned as Laurie Strode in the slickly forgettable 1998 legacy sequel Halloween: H20 Twenty Years Later

Halloween in SeptemberNathan RabinSeptember 15, 2025Jamie Lee Curtis, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett, sequel, Film, Halloween, legacy sequel, Steve Miner

My Patron-Funded Look at the Films of Oliver Stone Comes to an Anti-Climactic Close with 2015's Underwhelming Snowden

My patron-funded look at Oliver Stone’s complete filmography ends on an anti-climactic note, with 2016’s deeply underwhelming Snowden.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 29, 2022Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans, biopic

Dream Girls: (500) Days of Summer

A new feature on Manic Pixie Dream Girls kicks off with (500) Days of Summer, which manages to be at once the ultimate Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie and an intermittently clever deconstruction of the ubiquitous trope.