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

There's Probably a More Dignified Way to Commemorate Ryan O'Neal's Death Than By Re-Running This Piece on An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn But It's the One We're Going With

I will see and write about EVERYTHING for The Fractured Mirror book, even this abomination.

You’re welcome.

The Blackface Bomb

I’m watching a lot of weird old movies for my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror and consequently regularly inundated with bracing outbursts of. blackface that seem to come out of nowhere.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinOctober 3, 2023The Fractured Mirror, Al Jolson, George Jessel, musicals, blackface, racism

The Fractured Mirror is Going to Be Even LONGER and Even More Crazily Time and Labor-Intensive For Me! Why Do I Do This To Myself?

Why do I do this to myself?

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 8, 2023The Fractured Mirror, books

I Can't Stop Thinking About the Ending of Clerks III

Sometimes you just can’t stop thinking about the ending of a movie, even when that movie is Clerks III.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 31, 2023Kevin Smith, The Fractured Mirror, Brian O'Halloran

Check Me Out on Letterboxd!

I’m back on Letterboxd and more active than ever! Ch-ch-check it out!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 11, 2023The Fractured Mirror, Letterboxd

The Lonely, Triumphant Careers of Billy Barty and Franklin Pangborn

Character actors Billy Barty and Franklin Pangborn enjoyed tremendous success as Hollywood’s preeminent little person actor and coded gay effete comic foil respectively but it came at a cost.

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Jolson Rides Again, The Legend of Lylah Claire, Once in a Lifetime, The Pretenders, Shrink, Sweet Liberty, With Friends Like These and Zeroville

This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.