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

The Cannes Cut of Southland Tales is a Warped Masterpiece

I finally got around to watching the Cannes Cut of Southland Tales, which I was at one point supposed to write the liner notes for, and holy shit is it great.

My Patron-Funded Look at the Entirety of Batman Beyond Comes to An End by Anticipating Chappie and Contemplating Terry's Lonely Existential Plight

My patron-funded look at the cult superhero cartoon Batman Beyond comes to a close with a look at two standout episodes, one of which is basically Chappie with Henry Rollins and Zeta and the other a haunting look at Terry’s lonely existential destiny.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 1, 2022

Freakazoid Tangles with the Lobe and Eastern European Baddies in Parodies of The Godfather and Mission: Impossible

My patron-funded exploration of the cult cartoon Freakazoid! continues with a look at parodies of The Godfather and Mission: Impossible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 31, 2022The Godfather, Steven Spielberg, Animaniacs, The Brain, parody

Arthouse Auteur Neil Jordan Got REALLY Stupid with the Pervy, Inexplicably Dark Ghostbusters Knock-Off High Spirits

Arthouse auteur Neil Jordan went mainstream in the worst possible way with the staggeringly awful 1988 supernatural comedy High Spirits, with Peter O’Toole, Daryl Hannah and Liam Neeson as a wife-murdering ghost with an enormous penis.

The Mildly Over-Achieving 1991 Basic Instinct Knockoff Raw Heat Is Distinguished Largely by the Presence of James Fucking Bond as Its Male Lead

The presence of James Bond, AKA Pierce Brosnan, distinguishes Victim of Love/Raw Heat , easily the better of the two television movies Virginia Madsen made in 1991 about love triangles involving shrinks and possible murderers.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 18, 2022Virginia Madsen, Pierce Brosnan, JoBeth Williams

The Depressingly Generic 1991 "Erotic" Television Movie Love Kills Marks is an Unhappy and Unfortunate Reunion for Electric Dreams Stars Virginia Madsen and Lenny von Dohlen

Virginia Madsen has made a lot of forgettable television movies. 1991’s Love Kill.is one of them. Oy! It’s like the opposite of Better Than Ezra’s hit single: not good!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 17, 2022Virginia Madsen, Lenny von Dohlen

The Notorious 1987 Sorta Sequel Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is Pure Nightmare Fuel

Filmation’s notorious 1987 Disney knockoff Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is pure nightmare fuel.

1965's Die, Monster, Die! Is a Masterful Exercise in Lovecraftian Horror

We about to get Lovecraftian up at the Happy Place.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 4, 2022Nick Adams, Boris Karloff, H.P Lovecraft

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.

Freakazoid Squares Off Against Classic Villains Voiced by Ricardo Montalban and David Warner as My Patron-Funded Look at Freakazoid! Continues

The late, great David Warner (RIP) and Ricardo Montalban steal the show as colorful villains as my patron-funded exploration of the cult cartoon Freakazoid! continues.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 26, 2022