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

Mel Gibson Mugs His Way Through the 2022 Radio-Themed Thriller On the Line as a Shock Jock Menaced by an Unseen Caller in, an Imaginary-Seeming Movie Worth Ignoring

Morbid curiosity led me to watch and write about 2022’s On the Line, an imaginary-seeming vehicle for a disgraced yet busy Mel Gibson as a prankish shock jock having one crazy night, in one of SEVEN movies he made that year.

Rando!Nathan RabinOctober 21, 2024Mel Gibson, Kevin Dillon, radio

Larry Cohen and William Lustig's 1996 Dark Comedy Uncle Sam is Not the Timeless Masterpiece it Promises to Be

After triumphing with the Oscar-winning Maniac Cop trilogy, writer Larry Cohen and director Wiliam Lustig reunited for 1996’s Uncle Sam, a curdled social satire/dark comedy/horror movie, which does not make good on its promise to be the most amazing film ever made.

Rando!Nathan RabinJuly 10, 2024Robert Forster, Isaac Hayes, Larry Cohen, William Lustig, P.J Soles

1996's The Lawnmower Man 2 Isn't Quite the Camp Classic Its Predecessor Was, But It's Still Stupid Fun

They wanted some of that Max Headroom feeling for 1996’s Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, and they figured that since Matt Frewer is Max Headroom he must have it in spades.

Rando!Nathan RabinJune 3, 2024Matt Frewer, Patrick Bergin, Cyberspace

There are more respectful ways to honor the great Phil Hartman on the anniversary of his death than by rerunning this piece on Houseguest but it's the one we're going with

Phil Hartman Month kicks off with a loving appreciation of the wonderfully idiotic 1995 interracial buddy comedy Houseguest, which paired the beloved Saturday Night Live funnyman with goateed 1990s jokester Sinbad.

Best of 2023: Asia Argento's The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is a Uniquely Disturbing Motion Picture

Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Best of 2023: Corey Feldman's Creepy Appearance on Celebrity Wife Swap is Both Embarrassing and Incriminating

Corey Feldman’s appearance on Wife Swap makes him look far worse than any tabloid hatchet job possibly could.

Rando!Nathan RabinDecember 27, 2023Corey Feldman, Tommy Davidson, Wife Swap

1986's Armed and Dangerous Was Written for Aykroyd and Belushi but Bombed with John Candy and Eugene Levy as Its Leads

John Candy and Eugene Levy ended up playing roles intended for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in a misfiring buddy cop movie screenwriter Harold Ramis tried to get his name taken off of for reasons that are very easy to understand.

Rando!, John Candy MonthNathan RabinDecember 12, 2023John Candy, John Candy Month, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Harold Ramis, action comedy, buddy cop, Film

The 1985 John Candy Vehicle Summer Rental Would Be a Lazy Mediocrity Even if a Lame Boat Race Subplot Didn't Dominate Its Third Act

John Candy made his starring debut in 1985’s Summer Rental, a big screen Summer sitcom that’s also, perversely, semi-secretly a boat racing underdog buddy comedy pairing Candy with Magic Pirate Dream Guru Rip Torn.

Rando!, John Candy MonthNathan RabinDecember 6, 2023John Candy, John Candy Month, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, Carl Reiner, Vacation

There Are Probably Better Ways to Honor the Great Alan Arkin Than By Re-Running This Piece on Jerky Boys: The Movie, But That's the One We're Going With

Alan Arkin made many wonderful. Jerky Boys: The Movie is not one of them but we’re choosing to honor him by re-running an early article on it all the same.

Rando!Nathan RabinJune 30, 2023Alan Arkin

Remembering the Christopher Lambert/Mario Van Peebles buddy comedy Gunmen on Its 28th Anniversary

Rando! returns with an appropriately random appreciation of 1994’s Gunmen, a goofy, bloody guilty pleasure with a wonderfully over-the-top Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary and a wheelchair-bound, mustachioed Patrick Stewart both burying people alive and getting buried alive himself.

Rando!Nathan RabinApril 26, 2023