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Best of 2023: Hollywood Cancelled Max Landis So He's Making Weird Pitch Movie Hybrids on Youtube Where He Plays Many of the Roles That are Surreally Terrible

Hollywood cancelled Max Landis so he decided to make weird pitch/movie/reading hybrids where he plays most of the roles.

it’s something! Something very bad.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 26, 2023Max Landis, metoo, Justice League, superheroes

Dwayne Johnson's Kryptonite

Dammit, Dwayne Johnson, stop trying to make Black Adam happen!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinNovember 28, 2023Dwayne Johnson, superheroes, DC, Black Adam

The Failed Pilot Stan Lee's Mighty 7 Finally Gave the Marvel Icon a Tantalizing Taste of the Spotlight

Late in life Stan Lee created a comic and star-studded animated TV pilot with Stan Lee as the hero. The man had a bit of ego on him, didn’t he?

Superman III Is a Subpar Richard Pryor Vehicle That Has Superman in It For Some Reason

For latest installment of Control Nathan and Clint, you had us revisit the first time the Superman franchise went horrifically awry, Richard Lester’s Superman III, a terrible Richard Pryor comedy that’s just barely a superhero movie and comes alive only when Superman is being a raging, super-powered douche bag.

Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinMarch 24, 2023Superman, Richard Pryor, superheroes, Christopher Reeve, flops, stinkeroos

My Patron-Funded Exploration of Freakazoid! Comes to an End with a Reverent Appreciation of the Best Thing Steven Spielberg Has Ever Been Involved With

My patron-funded exploration of the cult superhero spoof Freakazoid! comes to a bittersweet but deeply satisfying conclusion,

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 13, 2022Steven Spielberg, superheroes, satire, David Warner, finale, cult, silly

The Curious Psychology of the Batgirl Cancellation

Usually studios tell the public that their dodgy movies are GREAT and everyone should see them. Not WBD. They don’t want anyone to see Batgirl and took drastic measures to ensure that happens by cancelling its release.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 8, 2022Michael Keaton, Leslie Grace, J.K Simmons, J.K. Simmons, superheroes, comic books, DC, flop

Freakazoid Just Keeps Getting Freakier and Freakier!

My patron-funded exploration of the cult cartoon Freakazoid just keeps getting freakier and freakier!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 24, 2022superheroes, 1990s, Stan Freberg

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #234 Bunny Whipped (2007)

I hate to use phrases like “real stinkeroo” but this one is a real stinkeroo.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 21, 2021Rebecca Gayheart, Joey Lauren Adams, superheroes

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #203 Batman Beyond: "Mind Games" and "Revenant"

My patron-funded exploration of the cult animated superhero show Batman Beyond explores the horrors of high school and the mind in episodes that find Bruce and Terry facing off against The Brain Trust, a secret society of telepathic villain and an old nemesis/former classmate of Terry’s.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 19, 2021Batman Beyond, Batman, superheroes, Television, Cult

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #143 Batman Beyond: "Disappearing Inque" and "Curare"

The world’s saddest man falls tragically in love with slinky, inky femme fatale Inque and Bruce, Terry and Barbara Gordon take on a silent assassin and the ghosts of the past in two fascinating episodes of Batman Beyond.