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Shards From the Fractured Mirror: Best Worst Movie, Clerks III, My Life's in Turnaround, The Shadow of the Vampire and Stardust Memories

In the latest round up of movies about filmmaking I cover a quintet of films featured in my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #218 Girlfriend's Day (2017)

The column where YOU pay me to watch movies celebrates the life, career and non-death of Bob Odenkirk with the first of four entries about his film career, the nifty 2016 Netflix sleeper Girlfriends Day, which is Charlie Kaufman lite in the best possible way.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #179 Troll 2 (1990)

For a very special day (the end of the Joy of Trash Kickstarter) I wrote about a movie that embodies the joy of trash: the absolutely wonderful, utterly insane 1990 fever dream Troll 2.