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

Kevin Can F**k Himself is the Kevin Can Wait/Breaking Bad Hybrid We Never Knew We Needed

I finally got around to watching Kevin Can F**k Himself, a unique blend of traditional sitcom and heavy drama. I loved it!

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinOctober 2, 2024Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek, Sean Clements, Tom Scharpling, sitcom, TV, post-modern, self-referential

The 2016 Entourage Movie Is the Reason the Terrorists Hate Us

The Entourage movie is less a "motion picture" than a convincing recruitment film for ISIS about the empty decadence of Western capitalist pigs.

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinJune 10, 2023Entourage, hatewatch, Lukewarm Takes, Show business, Doug Ellin

Exploiting our Archives: Hoo Boy, La La Land is a Real Stinker

Your plucky former film critic takes a break from disparaging garbage superhero movies to disparage an Oscar-winning critical and popular smash.

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinMarch 27, 2022Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone

The Obsessive Brilliance of Saturday Morning All Star Hits!

Uh, subs?

Lukewarm Takes, Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 10, 2022Kyle Mooney, Lorne Michaels

Lukewarm Takes: Jim & Andy in The Great Beyond

I finally get around to watching and writing about Chris Smith’s queasily voyeuristic exploration of the quiet heroism of everyone forced to interact with Jim Carrey and Bob Zmuda during the making of Man on the Moon.

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinSeptember 24, 2019Jim Carrey, Danny Devito, Milos Forman, Man on the Moon

Lukewarm Takes: The Fate of the Furious (2017)

Dom going against the family? It happened!

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinAugust 14, 2019Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, sequel, blockbuster, macho, Jason Statham, Hobbs & Shaw

Exploiting our Archives: Inside Out and the Necessity of Sadness

Sometimes you see a children’s computer animated film and it wrecks you emotionally, and sometimes it does that and engenders all manner of epiphanies about your emotional life. That was the case with me and Inside Out.