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

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the 1990 Cult Classic Tremors

You know what really holds up? The beloved 1990 monster movie Tremors.

There Are More Respectful Ways to Honor George Wendt Than By Rerunning This Piece on Space Truckers, But It's the One We're Going With

Stuart Gordon’s deranged 1996 science fiction comedy Space Truckers went direct to video and looms as one of its creator’s biggest failures but it’s a lot more delightfully warped than its reputation suggests.

Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese's Short-Lived My Journey Through HBO's Period Music Drama Vinyl Continues With Its Juicy Fifth Episode, "He In Racist Fire"

My journey through Vinyl, Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s short-lived music-world period drama, continues with a look at its fifth episode, “He In Racist Fire”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 2, 2025Jack Quaid, Juno Temple, Bobby Canavale, Mick Jagger

The Shudder Pick of the Month is the Loopy 1980s Ghoulies Homage Frankie Freako

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the nostalgic magic of 2024’s Frankie Freako, a campy throwback to the Reagan-era heyday of Gremlins knockoffs.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 30, 2025

A Kooky Scientist Played by Val Kilmer Traps Six Sexy Singles in a Steam Room to Make a Muddled Point About Global Warming in the Delightfully Insane 2009 Thriller The Chaos Experiment

A lunatic played by the late Val Kilmer traps six sexy singles, including Eric Roberts, in a locked steamroom to make a muddled point about global warming in the insane, Steve Bannon-produced 2009 thriller The Chaos/Steam Experiment.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 16, 2025Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, Patrick Muldoon

The Semi-Random Rerun of the day is the muddled 1991 Bill Maher vehicle Pizza Man

Before they became real-world best friends, Bill Maher faced off against a fictional Donald Trump in the abysmal 1991 political comedy Pizza Man.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 15, 2025

Val Kilmer Channels Pistachio Disguisey in the Proudly Preposterous 1997 Vehicle The Saint

One of you kind souls paid me to write about one of the late Val Kilmer’s stupidest movies, the Robert Evans-produced 1997 adaptation of The Saint.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 14, 2025Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Evans, Simon Wincer, Roger Moore

The Random Rerun of the Day is Guy Ritchie's Kabbalah-influenced 2005 Stinker Revolver

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Guy Ritchie’s fascination with the Kabbalah, for example, inspired one of his shittiest movies, 2005’s Revolver.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 13, 2025Ray Liotta, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie

The Looming Great Depression Makes the Terrific, Economic Downturn-based 2019 Dark Comedy Hustlers Almost Too Real and Relatable

We’re headed For hard times, which makes the recession-fueled 2019 hit Hustlers, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lopez, painfully relatable.

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Stephen King-Approved The Rule of Jenny Pen, a Compelling Look at the Horror of Aging With Great Turns from John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

For my Shudder pick of the month, I watched a compelling New Zealand horror movie about the agony of old age, with terrific performances by Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as a lunatic who does sick things with the titular baby doll puppet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 31, 2025John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, horror, nursing home, Film, New Zealand