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There's Never a Bad Time to Rerun This Piece on the 2014 Supernatural Nicholas Sparks Adaptation Safe Haven
There's Never a Bad Time to Rerun This Piece on the 2014 Supernatural Nicholas Sparks Adaptation Safe Haven

You generous fucks made Clint n' me watch the Nicholas Sparks adaptation with the ghost. Seriously. A fucking ghost. In a Nicholas Sparks movie. Christ. (SPOILER)

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Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinAugust 12, 2024Nicholas Sparks, Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel
The 1994 Feature Film Adaptation of Double Dragon Was a Real Stinkeroo
The 1994 Feature Film Adaptation of Double Dragon Was a Real Stinkeroo

You kindly sadists had us watch a 1994 video game adaptation that is quite poor, but oh so very 1994 in every conceivable way. 

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Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinAugust 12, 2024video games, 1990s, Robert Patrick, Video game adaptation
The Great Catch-Up Returns with a Fond Look at the Nifty 2017 Horror Sequel Cult of Chucky
The Great Catch-Up Returns with a Fond Look at the Nifty 2017 Horror Sequel Cult of Chucky

In the first Great Catch-Up piece in a very long time I write admiringly of 2017’s overachieving The Cult of Chucky.

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Great Catch UpNathan RabinAugust 12, 2024Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, sequel, Film
The New Lou Pearlman Docu-Series Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Pearlman's Demented Memoir, Which Figures Prominently in It
The New Lou Pearlman Docu-Series Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Pearlman's Demented Memoir, Which Figures Prominently in It

In honor of the boy band-centric Turning Red , I am re-running a piece (compiled in The Joy of Trash) about disgrace boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman’s deranged and deluded memoir.

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Literature SocietyNathan RabinAugust 11, 2024Justin Timberlake, Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys
Before Politics Separated Them, Donald Trump and Whoopi Goldberg Triumphed in 1996's Eddie
Before Politics Separated Them, Donald Trump and Whoopi Goldberg Triumphed in 1996's Eddie

Whoopi. Basketball. Dennis Rodman. The Donald. Are you not entertained? 

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Trumpterpiece TheaterNathan RabinAugust 9, 2024Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Trump, Frank Langella
The Terrific Twosome of Donald Trump and Whoopi Goldberg Triumphed AGAIN in 1996's The Associate
The Terrific Twosome of Donald Trump and Whoopi Goldberg Triumphed AGAIN in 1996's The Associate

“I’m just going to take you and bite your booty in the back of my truck.”

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Trumpterpiece TheaterNathan RabinAugust 9, 2024Donald Trump, Whoopi Goldberg
I Feel Less Hopeless Now That Kamala Harris Has Replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Presidential Nominee
I Feel Less Hopeless Now That Kamala Harris Has Replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Presidential Nominee

I’m feeling a whole lot less hopeless now that Kamala Harris has replaced President Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate.

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 8, 2024Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Joe Biden
Now That I Know That I'm Autistic, I Find Fred Durst's 2019 flop The Fanatic Even More Offensive Than Before
Now That I Know That I'm Autistic, I Find Fred Durst's 2019 flop The Fanatic Even More Offensive Than Before

When it comes to pop culture representation of life on the spectrum, it doesn’t get worse or more insulting than Fred Durst’s deplorable 2019 psychodrama The Fanatic.

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The Travolta/Cage Project, Autism in EntertainmentNathan RabinAugust 7, 2024Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit, Devon Sawa, John Travolta, autis, autism
I Love My New Teeth!
I Love My New Teeth!

My new permanent teeth and the GoFundMe to help pay for them sure give me something to smile about beyond my teeth no longer being an abomination!

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 7, 2024
The Problem with "Let Them Live"
The Problem with "Let Them Live"

If you spend too much time online, you’ve undoubtedly encountered weird apologists for people who’ve done horrible things who insist on everyone giving the accused—but only the accused—benefit of the doubt.

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 6, 2024Diddu, Diddy, Chris Brown
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