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

The Eerily Prescient, Wildly Ambitious 1993 Science Fiction Mini-Series Wild Palms is Like Megalopolis, But Good!

You know what’s aged in a really interesting, prescient way? The David Lynch meets Phillip K. Dick 1993 prestige miniseries Wild Palms.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 17, 2025James Belushi, Dana Delaney, Robert Loggia, Robert Morse, Charles Rocket, Bruce Wagner, Oliver Stone, TV, Science fiction

The Little Loved 1991 John Candy Vehicle Delirious is a Pleasant Surprise

Sometimes movies surprise you by not being terrible. The 1991 flop Delirious is one such non-stinker.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 14, 2023John Candy, Emma Samms, David Rasche, Mariel Hemingway, Tom Mankiewitz, soap opera, Raymond Burr, Charles Rocket, meta, television, writers, writing

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #112 California Girls (1985)

As part of a patron-funded exploration of the films of Tawny Kitaen I wrote about an achingly mediocre 1985 TV movie starring Robby Benson as a Jersey guy living his Los Angeles dream, literally as well as figuratively.