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

With "The Racket", Vinyl, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's HBO Flop, Settles Into a Solid Groove

My journey through Vinyl, Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s ill-fated rock and roll drama continues with a look at its fourth episode, “The Racket.”

The Eerily Prescient, Wildly Ambitious 1993 Science Fiction Mini-Series Wild Palms is Like Megalopolis, But Good!

You know what’s aged in a really interesting, prescient way? The David Lynch meets Phillip K. Dick 1993 prestige miniseries Wild Palms.

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Darkly Funny 2019 Horror Comedy Villains

For my Shudder pick of the month, I wrote up the 2019 horror comedy Villains, starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Donovan

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 28, 2025Bill Skarsgård, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Donovan, Maika Monroe

2022's Everything All At Once Is Crazy, Great and Crazy-Great

I finally got around to seeing the 2023 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It’s fucking nuts! I mean that in a nice way.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 27, 2025Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, multiverse, The Daniels, crazy

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's Flop HBO Drama Vinyl Gets Into the Groove With Its Third Episode, "Whispered Secrets"

The third episode of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s HBO flop Vinyl is the best one yet! It’s actually getting good!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 25, 2025Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, Jack Quaid, Martin Scorsese

While the Rest of the World Was Riveted by the Super Bowl, I Watched and Wrote About a Jaleel White Special from 1992

In 1992, Jaleel White and his alter-ego Steve Urkel most assuredly did do that, and by “that” I mean making an hour long special to celebrate White’s breakout popularity.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 10, 2025variety shows, Steve Urkel, Jaleel White, rap, Little Richard, Vanessa Wiliams

The 1988 Remake of The Blob is Shockingly Scary for a Movie About Angry, Evil Jell-O

One of you kind souls paid me to see Chuck Russell’s terrific 1988 remake of The Blob.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 15, 2025Chuck Russell, Frank Darabont, Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, remake, Film, Horror

The Bewilderingly Bleak 1985 Claymation Movie The Adventures of Mark Twain is Nightmare Fuel in the Best Way

As part of an ongoing series on children’s movies from the 1980s that are perversely dark, one of you kind souls paid me to write about the fascinatingly bleak 1985 Claymation movie The Adventures of Mark Twain, which is all about suicide, death, grief, mourning and, of course, the devil.

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Rock-Solid 2019 Horror Anthology The Mortuary Collection

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 10, 2025Clancy Brown, Horror anthology, horror anthology, EC Comics, E.C., Tales From the Crypt

Brad Dourif Month Continues With This Piece on 1998's Urban Legend

It’s Scream, except with urban legends instead of movies. And also terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Film, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Scream, Brad Dourif