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

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie explores the pop icon’s legendary cameo in Ben Stiller’s controversial, beloved 2001 fashion world satire Zoolander.

Tony Scott's Directorial Career Began and Ended Strongly With 1983's The Hunger and 2010's Unstoppable

Tony Scott’s career was uneven but it began and ended on high notes with 1982’s The Hunger and 2010’s Unstoppable.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #241 Gunslinger's Revenge (1998)

Why, for the love of all that is holy, is David Bowie in this cockamamie film?

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 26, 2021David Bowie, Harvey Keitel, western

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #236 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #230 Spongebob's Atlantis Squarepantis (2007): When David Bowie Met Spongebob Squarepants

My reader-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with a fond look at his shockingly committed guest turn on Spongebob’s Altantis Squarepantis.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 31, 2021Tom Kenney, Spongebob Squarepants, David Bowie, Musical

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #214 Mr. Rice's Secret (1999)

David Bowie made a lot of movies. The wildly overwrought kiddie Cancer drama Mr. Rice’s Secret was one of them.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 22, 2021David Bowie, Cancer, melodrama, The Book of Henry, Tyler Labine, random

Control Nathan Rabin #204 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

David Bowie delivers one of his most powerful performances as a defiant Allied officer in a Japanese POW camp in the mesmerizing 1983 psychodrama Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 25, 2021David Bowie, Tom Conti, Oshima, World War II, POW camp, war, prison, homoeroticism, Mishima

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #198 Yellowbeard (1983)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with a look at his cameo in the star-studded pirate comedy Yellowbeard, a 1983 comedy that fucking sucks.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #190 The Prestige (2006)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with the glam icon’s electrifying performance as Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s masterful exploration of obsession and revenge, 2006’s The Prestige.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #178 Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with the bizarre, bizarrely racist Luc Besson-directed 2006 animation/live-action hybrid Arthur and the Invisibles, a fascinatingly misbegotten project with a voice cast that includes Bowie, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Harvey Keitel, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg.