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

The 1969 Elvis Vehicle Change of Habit Was the First Film to Deal with Autism and Good Lord Is It Ever Offensive!

The last Elvis movie is also the first to deal explicitly with autism.

Does it deal with it tastefully, with great sensitivity and care? No. No it does not.

Autism in EntertainmentNathan RabinFebruary 14, 2024Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Autism

U2's Rattle and Hum is like a Real Life Spinal Tap

One of you kind souls paid me to experience Rattle and Hum, U2’s unintentionally hilarious, oft-mocked exercise in delirious self-parody.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 23, 2022Bono, U2, rockumentary, rock and roll, pretension, self-parody, Phil Joanou, Elvis Presley

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 166 Blue Hawaii (1961)

Elvis sings, smirks and spanks his way through paradise in the wonderfully cheesy 1961 uber-Elvis movie Blue Hawaii.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 21, 2021Elvis Presley, Angela Lansbury, Hawaii, musical, U2, Rattle and Hum

Exploiting the Holidays: Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #14 The Identical (2014)

One of you kind-hearted sadists slipped me a hundred bucks to write about 2014’s The Identical an instant Christian camp classic about identical rock star twins switched at birth who both look and act exactly like Elvis Presley in a movie where, inexplicably, Elvis also exists.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 26, 2018Elvis Presley, Ray Liotta, Seth Green, Christianity, Christian films

Exploiting our Archives: Rando Family! Rock A Doodle (1992)

A column on random-ass shit I found interesting returns with Don Bluth's animated/live action "What if Elvis Presley was a magical rooster?" flop Rock A Doodle.

Rando Family!Nathan RabinOctober 29, 2018Disney, Don Bluth, Elvis Presley

Day Fifty-Four: "Velvet Elvis" from Even Worse

You can tell that he's no velvet Elvis imitator