I wrote epic lists of the 100 best and worst American movies about filmmaking for my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror and wondering where all-time fiascoes like The Oscar, The Lonely Lady and Valley of the Dolls belongs.
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The Clickhole story “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made an Excellent Point will forever be relevant.
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Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” is an unexpected highlight of M3GAN 2.0 but it actually owes its existence to an earlier, much sappier motion picture.
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Between parental death, plumbing catastrophes, and surprise emergency surgery, my family has been suffering the trials of Job as of late.
An update on how things have been going: not well!
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This is what I will read at my dad’s memorial tomorrow.
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The Trump administration thinks it’s all slick using fighting antisemitism as a pretext to silence free speech. Don’t fall for it!
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When an article is important enough, I cross-post it here and at my Substack newsletter, Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas, and Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place. I can’t think of anything I’ve written more important than the death of my father late Saturday night
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Director-star Robby Benson trades in Ice Castles for mountains of blow as a troubled young professional with a beast of a crack addiction who has chosen to also get into dealing crack cocaine in the impossibly lurid 1989 crack exploitation movie White Hot.
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Rainbow capitalism has always been more than a little cynical and pandering. This year it’s much more feeble and sad, given corporate America’s cowardice in the face of Trump’s virulently anti-LGTBQ agenda.
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It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!
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