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

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #250 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

For the landmark 250th entry in the column that let’s YOU choose the movies I watch and write about, I wrote about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. What a picture!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 16, 2021Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Walton Goggins, Bruce Dern, Rebecca Gayheart, Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood, The Broken Mirror, Broken Mirror, Kurt Russell, Bruce Lee, stuntman, Academy Award winner

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #205 Wall Street (1987)

Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his mesmerizing turn as an evil businessman in Oliver Stone’s zeitgeist-capturing morality tale of greed and ambition, Wall Street.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJune 1, 2021Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, John C. McGinley, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Terence Stamp, Wall Street, greed, Academy Award winner, 1980s, Film

The Travolta/Cage Project #46 Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Nicolas Cage won the first of what we can only assume will be many Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic opposite an equally powerful, equally Oscar-nominated Elisabeth Shue in Mike Figgis’ moody 1995 drama Leaving Las Vegas.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinNovember 18, 2020Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Mike Figgis, alcoholism, Academy Award winner, Film

The Travolta/Cage Project #39 Pulp Fiction (1994)

Hey, you know what movie is fucking great? Pulp Fiction.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinSeptember 11, 2020Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Samuel L. Jackson, comeback, Academy Award winner, French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, cinephile, Rotten Tomatoes

The Travolta/Cage Project #19 Moonstruck (1987)

Nicolas Cage is crazy, sexy motherfucker in Norman Jewison’s delightful, Oscar-winning 1987 romantic comedy classic Moonstruck, fromJohn Patrick Shanley, the Oscar, Pulitzer and Tony-winning mind behind Joe Versus the Volcano and also Doubt.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinApril 2, 2020Nicolas Cage, Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, Vincent Gardenia, Academy Award winner, Film