Happy Place — Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #61 The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to write about the movie that got WWE Films and Blumhouse into the mediocre, painfully bland, mega-church-pimping Christian movie business.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #60 Straw Dogs (1971)

Our ongoing, patron-funded exploration of the films of Sam Peckinpah reaches Bloody Sam’s problematic and deeply troubling 1971 provocation Straw Dogs.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #59 Absolute Beginners (1986)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to revisit Julien Temple’s fascinatingly muddled 1986 musical flop Absolute Beginners, an exceedingly white, straight look at racial tensions and the exhilarating freedoms of life in late 1950s London.

Control Nathan Rabin #58 Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to watch and write about 1998’s Babe: Pig in the City, Fury Road director George Miller’s darkest, most fucked up masterpiece. With Mickey Rooney as the ghoulish embodiment of all of your childhood nightmares!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJune 20, 2019Babe, sequel, flop, children's films, tragedy, darkness, Mickey Rooney, George Miller

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #57 Time Indefinite (1993)

One of you kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to see 1993’s Time Indefinite, Sherman’s March director/star Ross McElwee’s deeply sad meditation on aging, parenthood and letting go.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJune 12, 2019Sherman's March, Fathers, sons

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #56 Still Waiting... (2009)

One of you kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to see the direct-to-video sequel to Waiting… that filled bit player Justin Long with soul-consuming shame for being a part of.

It’s not great! #Quitepoor

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #55 Street Fighter (1994)

One of you kind souls paid me to revisit the famously disastrous 1994 feature film adaptation of Street Fighter, which pitted a coked out of his gourd Jean-Claude Van Damme against a dying, gaunt, awesomely over-the-top Raul Julia.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #54 Director's Cut

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to see Director’s Cut, Penn Jillette and cult auteur Adam Rifkin’s inspired, wildly meta crowd-funded exploration of crowd-funding, Hollywood and madness.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #53 Junior Bonner (1972)

Steve McQueen is quietly magnificent as a fading champion of the rodeo in Sam Peckinpah’s gentlest movie.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #52 Clean Slate (1994)

One of y’all generous weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to see one of several films that failed to elevate Dana Carvey to cinematic superstardom as a romantic leading man.