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

I'm Concerned That the Response of So Many on the Left to Trump's Re-Election is to Give Up, Give In or Switch Sides and Go Full MAGA

In 2016, we resisted. In 2024 we’re giving up and giving in. That’s not right.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg

Brad Dourif Month Continues With a Fond Look Back at the Bonkers Cult Classic Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Grab your lucky crack pipe and relive the magic and the madness of Werner Herzog’s demented 2009 dark comedy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,

Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Nicolas Cage, Abel Ferrara, camp movies, b movies

George Romero's Intriguingly Odd Season of the Witch is a Horror Movie Without Horror and a Softcore Romp Without Sex

One of you kind souls paid me to write up George Romero’s intriguing feminist sort-of 1973 horror movie Season of the Witch.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025George Romero, New Hollywood, witches

There Are More Dignified Ways of Celebrating Nicolas Cage's Birthday Than By Rerunning This Piece on Amos & Andrew But It's The One We're Going WIth

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

Jimmy Carter's Genius and Common Touch are the Focus of One of My Favorite Saturday Night Live Sketches

Jimmy Carter’s death reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, a Walter Cronkite-hosted call in show where Carter helps solve a technical problem at the post office and talks a 17 year down from a heavy acid trip.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 7, 2025Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmy Carter, Saturday Night Live

Brad Dourif Month Continues With 1984's Dune

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with a fond look back at David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune, which I deemed a Fiasco when I covered it for My World of Flops but that I now adore.

In Honor of Brad Dourif Month, I'm Rerunning This Piece on 1994's Color of Night

One of you kind souls paid me to re-experience the exquisite absurdity of Richard Rush’s gloriously kooky 1994 erotic thriller Color of Night.

Brad Dourif Steals the 1990 Stephen King Adaptation with a Loopy Cameo as a Crazed Exterminator

Brad Dourif month continues with a look back at his scene-stealing turn in the grimy 1990 Stephen King adaptation Graveyard Shift.

Brad Dourif MonthNathan RabinJanuary 6, 2025

Brad Dourif Month Continues with a Rerun of this Piece on His Epic Turn in 1991's Body Parts

At the request of a very special patron, I take an affectionate look at the wonderfully preposterous Body Parts, a 1991 horror movie from the screenwriter of Near Dark and The Hitcher about a worst-case scenario when receiving a transplant: Murder Arm, a debilitating ailment that makes you want to murder everyone you meet.

Brad Dourif Month Begins a Day Early With The Exorcist III, My Shudder Pick on the Month

Brad Dourif month begins a day earlier with a fond look at his legendary performance as the Gemini Killer in William Peter Blatty’s wonderfully wacky 1990 cult classic The Exorcist III.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Brad Dourif MonthNathan RabinDecember 31, 2024George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, sequel, Film, possession, Fabio, Patrick Ewing