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The Upcoming Clueless Series Gives Me an Excuse to Run This Very Silly Clickbait Piece About Alicia Silverstone

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

ClickbaitNathan RabinApril 17, 2025Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, Film

I've Been Full Time Freelance a Decade Now. It's Been Tough

I’ve been a full time freelancer for a solid decade now. To say it has been a challenge be and understatement.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 17, 2025The Dissolve, The A.V. Club, struggling, depression

Val Kilmer: The Direct to Video Years

Robert Downey Jr. and writer-director Shane Black leaped back onto the A-list with the beloved 2005 dark comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. People expected it to do wonders for Val Kilmer as well, but he spent much of the next decade cranking out interchangeable direct to video cheapies, many costarring 50 Cent.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 17, 2025Val Kilmer

A Kooky Scientist Played by Val Kilmer Traps Six Sexy Singles in a Steam Room to Make a Muddled Point About Global Warming in the Delightfully Insane 2009 Thriller The Chaos Experiment

A lunatic played by the late Val Kilmer traps six sexy singles, including Eric Roberts, in a locked steamroom to make a muddled point about global warming in the insane, Steve Bannon-produced 2009 thriller The Chaos/Steam Experiment.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 16, 2025Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, Patrick Muldoon

Today's Random Rerun of the Day is the 1985 Chuck Norris Vehicle Invasion USA

In which Chuck Norris saves the USA by blowing it up.

CannontoberNathan RabinApril 16, 2025Chuck Norris, Cannon

It Must Be Exhausting Going Through Life Thinking That Everyone Is Trying to Fuck You Over Because You're Trying to Fuck Over Everyone Else

Donald Trump thinks that every other country in the world is trying to fuck us over, including the ones populated primarily by penguins, because he is trying to fuck over every other country, including the ones populated primarily by penguins.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 16, 2025

The Semi-Random Rerun of the day is the muddled 1991 Bill Maher vehicle Pizza Man

Before they became real-world best friends, Bill Maher faced off against a fictional Donald Trump in the abysmal 1991 political comedy Pizza Man.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 15, 2025

Bill Maher is So Gullible That Kid Rock and Donald Trump Played Him Like a Fiddle

Bill Maher went to the White House with Kid Rock and discovered that Donald Trump is a wonderful human being who sincerely and enthusiastically laughed his hilarious, hard-hitting, “politically incorrect” comedy. He may even have made a new friend! How fun!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 15, 2025Bill Maher, Donald Trump, Kid Rock

Val Kilmer Channels Pistachio Disguisey in the Proudly Preposterous 1997 Vehicle The Saint

One of you kind souls paid me to write about one of the late Val Kilmer’s stupidest movies, the Robert Evans-produced 1997 adaptation of The Saint.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 14, 2025Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Evans, Simon Wincer, Roger Moore

Today's Random Rerun of the Day is the 1987 Flop Masters of the Universe

Cannon went for a Star Wars meets Jack Kirby vibe with its Masters of the Universe adaptation and had to settle for "poor man's Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time."

CannontoberNathan RabinApril 14, 2025Star Wars, Dolph Lundgren, Cannon, Frank Langella