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

There Are Probably Better Ways to Celebrate Robert De Niro's 80th Birthday Than By Re-Running This Piece on His God-Awful Vehicle The Comedian But This Is the One We're Going With

What if Robert De Niro made a movie about stand-up comedy that was as skin-crawlingly terrible as The King Of Comedy was great? Last year, he totally did!

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The Cross-Dressing Rodney Dangerfield/Jonathan Brandis Teen Sex Comedy Ladybugs is Wrong on SO Many Levels

Towards the twilight of his career as a leading man in theatrically released films, Rodney Dangerfield made a movie about a boy dressing up like a girl to play soccer that, honestly, is pretty fucked up.

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Even by the Low Standards of Hulk Hogan Vehicles, Santa with Muscles is an Abomination

Hulk Hogan. Christmas. Comedy. Children. Magical crystals. Catacombs. What could possibly go wrong?

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinNovember 3, 2022Hulk Hogan, Fred, bad movies, Control Nathan Rabin, Wrestling, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Exploiting the Archives: Control Nathan Rabin! Christian Mingle

Control Nathan Rabin is a column where Nathan Rabin has to watch and write about a movie Patreon donors voted on. First up: Christian Mingle, which patrons chose over Saving Christmas 73 to 37

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Exploiting our Archives: Control Nathan Rabin: 50 Shades of Black

You bastards made me see this. Was it great? No, it was not.

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Control Nathan Rabin: Crazy Enough

Take it from a former mental patient: the depiction of mental hospital life in the Chris Kattan "identical twins separated at birth" comedy Crazy Enough, which you bastards made me watch, lacks a certain verisimilitude

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