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

Because Michael Jackson Died on This Date We're Rerunning This Piece on Captain EO

I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.

I Regret to Inform You That Twenty-Five Years Later, The Phantom Menace Still Sucks

I’d love to report that 1999’s widely maligned The Phantom Menace is infinitely better than its dire reputation suggests but that’s just not true.

Was Jar Jar Binks Really All That Bad?

Oh Jar Jar. What have you done?

Big-ass articlesNathan RabinMay 23, 2023Star Wars, George Lucas, Jar Jar Binks, My Year of Flops II

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #258 Ewoks: Battle For Endor (1985)

My patron funded exploration of the films of Wilford Brimley continues with a look at the 1985 television movie Ewoks: Battle For Endor, an alternately grim and insufferably cute vehicle for the Ewoks, who fucking suck.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #244 Batman Beyond: "April Moon" and "Sentries of the Last Cosmos”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 10, 2021Patton Oswalt, Batman, Batman Beyond, George Lucas, Gary Gygax

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #84 Labyrinth (1986)

Our reader-funded jaunt through the films of David Bowie hits another big one in Jim Henson’s mesmerizing 1986 cult classic Labyrinth, from a script from the late Terry Jones and a whole bunch of other people as well.