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Marlon Wayans Urinates Lustily on Harold Ramis' Memory in the Unspeakably Awful 2017 Groundhog Day Knockoff Naked

One of you paid me to suffer through the 2017 time-loop Marlon Wayans vehicle Naked, which is like Groundhog Day, but nakeder and terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 18, 2024Marlon Wayans, Regina King, Dennis Haysbert, time loop, Groundhog Day, nudity, Film

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Spectacularly Silly 1990 Slasher Sequel Child's Play 2

I finally got around to watching Child’s Play 2, which is mesmerizingly stupid and a little bit silly.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 6, 2024Brad Dourif, Gerrit Graham, Jenny Agutter, sequel, Don Mancini, Child's Play, Chucky, Film

There Are More Dignified Ways to Remember Kris Kristofferson Than By Re-Running This Piece on Convoy But We're Going With It Nonetheless

Our patron-funded journey through the films of Sam Peckinpah hits another high point with a loving exploration of 1978’s Convoy, a smash hit CB trucker sex comedy based on a novelty song that’s pure fun.

In a Real Switcheroo, You Voted For Me to See a Good Movie, Namely 2021's Delightfully Demented The Suicide Squad

James Gunn's nifty 2021 supervillain team up comedy The Suicide Squad does everything right, whereas its predecessor did everything wrong.

I Am So Fucking Ready For Megalopolis

At the risk of being hyperbolic, I was born to write about Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinSeptember 26, 2024Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, flop, Film

Ripley Has Mad Basketball Skills in the Loony 1997 Flop Alien: Resurrection But the Movie is Anything but a Slam Dunk

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2024Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Alien, Film, Sequel, Michael Wincott, Science Fiction, action

Neurodivergence is Next to Godliness in the Ridiculous 2000 Satan-Themed Flop Bless the Child

If you like movies where autistic children are magical super-beings with the power to defeat Satan then 2000's Bless the Child is the movie for you!

The Great Catch-Up Returns with a Fond Look at the Nifty 2017 Horror Sequel Cult of Chucky

In the first Great Catch-Up piece in a very long time I write admiringly of 2017’s overachieving The Cult of Chucky.

Great Catch UpNathan RabinAugust 12, 2024Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, sequel, Film

The Notorious 1989 John Belushi Biopic Wired Was Such a Flop That It Scared Filmmakers Away from Saturday Night Live for Decades

Wired scared filmmakers away from Saturday Night Live as subject matter for decades, but multiple films about Lorne Michaels’ comic institution are currently in production.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 24, 2024John Belushi, Saturday Night Live, Michael Chiklis, flops, television, Film

2004's What's The Worst That Could Happen Was Just About the Worst Thing That Could Have Happened

The famously terrible 2001 Danny DeVito/Martin Lawrence stinkeroo What’s the Worst That Could Happen is indeed terrible and a real stinkeroo.