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

In 1979's The In-Laws Alan Arkin and Peter Falk Make for One of the All-Time Great Comedy Teams

I finally got around to seeing the classic 1979 comedy The In-Laws. It’s hilarious!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 13, 2023Alan Arkin, Peter Falk, Andrew Bergman, Arthur Hiller

So I Married an Axe Murderer Is an Eminently Re-Watchable Cult Classic from Mike Meyers' Glorious Heyday

Everybody loves So I Married an Axe. Murderer. Everyone is right.

Remembering Alan Arkin's Incredible Legacy as Well as My SUPER-Awkward Interview With Him

I’ve had my share of tough/bad interviews but I also have to realize that it’s a mistake to take them personally.

1982's The Last Unicorn is a Dark, Surreal and Kid-Unfriendly Kid's Film with a Fine Voice Performance by Alan Arkin

Our patron-funded exploration of the most child-traumatizing films of the 1980s continues with a loving look at the impressively fucked up cult animated fantasy film The Last Unicorn, with an incredible voice cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee and Alan Arkin.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 4, 2023fantasy, Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, unicorn, 1980s, Film

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

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Jolson Rides Again, The Legend of Lylah Claire, Once in a Lifetime, The Pretenders, Shrink, Sweet Liberty, With Friends Like These and Zeroville

This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.

Hoo Boy Is Billy Crystal's Unwatchable Vanity Project America's Sweethearts Ever a Stinkeroo!

Billy Crystal’s obnoxious and unfunny movie world comedy America’s Sweethearts would be perfect for My World of Flops except that it was inexplicably a hit.

Sub-Cult 2.0 # 10 Freebie and the Bean (1974)

Before 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon or Beverly Hills Cop there was Alan Arkin and James Caan in Richard Rush’s wildly influential 1974 mismatched buddy cop cult classic Freebie and the Bean, a weirdly forgotten blockbuster as problematic as it is entertaining.

Sub-Cult, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinMay 26, 2020Alan Arkin, James Caan, Richard Rush, New Hollywood, Film

Rando! Full Moon High (1981)

Sometimes you’re in the mood for something rando, like a randy, Larry Cohen-directed 1980s teen sex comedy that combined werewolves and high school athletics a full four years before Teen Wolf.

Rando!, Shaggy SportsNathan RabinNovember 13, 2018Alan Arkin, Adam Arkin, cult, teen sex comedy, Teen Wolf, Zucker Brothers