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There Are Probably More Dignified Ways to Remember the Late Writer Robert Klane Than by Re-Running This Piece on Weekend at Bernie's II But This is the One We're Going With

I’m sure this movie needed to be made.

This Looks Terrible, Squeakquels!Nathan RabinSeptember 5, 2023Sequel, dark comedy, Bernie, We Hate Movie

So I Married an Axe Murderer Is an Eminently Re-Watchable Cult Classic from Mike Meyers' Glorious Heyday

Everybody loves So I Married an Axe. Murderer. Everyone is right.

TV Wiz Arthur Penn's Remarkable Cinematic Career Began and Ended on Two VERY Different Films in Left Handed Gun and Penn & Teller Get Killed

After conquering the world of television, Arthur Penn turned his attention to film, and began and ended his auspicious career with two very different movies, the moody western The Left Handed Gun and the misanthropic dark comedy Penn & Teller Get Killed.

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinFebruary 6, 2023Paul Newman, Gore Vidal, Arthur Penn, Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller, dark comedy, western

Mixed Nuts is a Misunderstood Christmas Sleeper

Nora Ephron flopped big time with a world-class cast with the 1994 Christmas dark comedy Mixed Nuts.

2017's Better Watch Out is a Nasty Nugget that Asks "What if Home Alone's Kevin McAllister Were EVEN MORE of a Violent Sociopath?"

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with the nifty 2017 dark Christmas comedy Better Watch Out, a nicely nasty riff on the homicidal craziness of Home Alone.

Unlike its Tortured Villain/Anti-Hero Billy Wilder's wickedly funny Sunset Boulevard Will Always Remain Forever Young

Seventy two years later, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard remains a hip, roaringly contemporary marvel.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinApril 11, 2022William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Billy Wilder, dark comedy, Buster Keaton, monkey

The Travolta/Cage Project #80 Lord of War (2005)

Nicolas Cage got very dark for 2005’s Lord of War, Andrew Niccol’s bracingly brutal dark comedy about the international arms trade and the men who arm the world.

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My World of Flops Stormy Weather Case File #197 Travolta/Cage Project #76 The Weather Man (2005)

Nicolas Cage is a sad weather man in the sneakily great 2005 cult classic The Weather Man.

1994's Natural B

Oliver Stone gingerly threw out a screenplay by the infinitely more talented Quentin Tarantino so he could recreate Natural Born Killers in his own odious, obnoxious, insufferable image.

The Travolta/Cage Project #72 Matchstick Men (2003)

Nicolas Cage delivers another masterful performance as a con man with a whole lot of issues in Ridley Scott’s masterful crime melodrama Matchstick Men.