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

1991's The Doors Epitomizes Everything That Makes Oliver Stone the Absolute Worst

One legendary asshole pays reverent, insufferable tribute to another.

Hoo boy. This one was tough.

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.

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.

My World of Flops Oliver Stone's Chick Flick Case File #193/Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #242 Heaven and Earth (1993)

The screenwriter of Scarface and Conan the Barbarian turns his attention to the plight of a strong-willed Vietnamese woman whose life is shaped and molded by war in the 1993 biopic Heaven and Earth, a real outlier in the filmmaker’s otherwise macho filmography.