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

The 2006 Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller Ultraviolet is a Wildly Derivative Combination of Stylish and Stupid

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the stylish idiocy of the 2006 science fiction thriller Ultraviolet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 9, 2023Milla Jovovich, William Fichtner, Kurt Wimmer

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie explores the pop icon’s legendary cameo in Ben Stiller’s controversial, beloved 2001 fashion world satire Zoolander.

1984's Bachelor Party was NOT Tom Hanks' Finest Film. The Same Could Not Be Said for Co-Star Tawny Kitaen

As part of my patron-funded deep dive into the complete discography of Tawny Kitaen I explore Tom Hanks’ enduring gift to sex comedy, 1984’s audaciously entertaining, often just plain wrong Bachelor Party.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 5, 2023Tom Hanks, Pat Proft, Neal Israel, sex, Adrian Zmed, donkey, sex comedy, Film, Tawny Kitaen

The 1992 Television Movie A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story Gives Virginia Madsen an Insanely Juicy Role as a Larger Than Life Real World Femme Fatale

Virginia Madsen is a real-life man-eater in the guiltily entertaining 1992 docudrama A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story .

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 4, 2023Virginia Madsen, Chris Sarandon

Take a Groovy Trip to Space Jail with Luc Besson's Wildly Derivative Escape From New York Knock-Off Lockout

2012’s Lockout got busted in French courts for plagiarizing Escape from New York and Escape from Los Angeles but is a whole lot of guilty fun all the same.

Thanks to Fine Performances from Bruce Greenwood and Virginia Madsen, the Seedy 1994 Neo-Noir Bitter Vengeance is Surprisingly Non-Terrible

Virginia Madsen made a LOT of interchangeable, generically titled erotic thrillers in the late 1980s and 1990s. The 1994 television movie Bitter Vengeance is certainly one of them, but it’s a cut above due to fine work by Bruce Greenwood as Madsen’s malevolent hubby.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 20, 2022Bruce Greenwood, Virginia Madsen