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

The Controversial 1989 Shocker The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover Gives New Meaning to the Phrase "Eat a dick"

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 26, 2025Helen Mirren, Michael Chabon, Peter Greenaway, Film

My Journey Through the Cult Science Fiction Comedy Red Dwarf Continues with the Shape-Shifting Absurdity of "Polymorph" and "Bodyswap"

Chameleonic life forms? No thanks!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 24, 2025

Today's Random-Ass Rerun of the day is the 2010 Hilary Duff Vehicle Beauty & the Briefcase

One of you glorious sadists paid me a hundred dollars to watch a Cosmopolitan-themed Hillary Duff vehicle from 2010 whose hilariously regressive gender politics belong somewhere in the pre-Cosmopolitan 1950s.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 23, 2025Hilary Duff, Cosmopolitan

Wings Hauser's Death Gives Me Yet Another Reason to Rerun this piece on 1993's Champagne and Bullets, the Craziest Movie You've Never Heard Of!

One of you wonderful weirdoes paid me to see Champagne and Bullets, an amazing piece of outsider art that suggests Tommy Wiseau remaking Cobra with plenty of Manos: The Hands of God and Miami Connection thrown in for good measure.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 22, 2025Film, Cult, Wings Hauser, William Smith

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