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

Best of 2023: Asia Argento's The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is a Uniquely Disturbing Motion Picture

Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

There's Probably a More Dignified Way to Commemorate Ryan O'Neal's Death Than By Re-Running This Piece on An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn But It's the One We're Going With

I will see and write about EVERYTHING for The Fractured Mirror book, even this abomination.

You’re welcome.

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is Terrible Even for a Troy Duffy Movie

Fuck you, Troy Duffy. No, seriously. Fuck you.

Squeakquels!, This Looks TerribleNathan RabinNovember 21, 2022Troy Duffy, Harvey Weinstein, Power, Sexism, Quentin Tarantino

Watching Woody in a Post-MeToo World

I was worried that I’d have a hard time watching all manner of movies with problematic figures for The Fractured Mirror but it turns out I am a totally a professional!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 25, 2022Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Joe Eszterhas, MeToo

R. Kelly and Guilt

Surviving R. Kelly is gripping and horrifying in its depiction of R. Kelly’s crimes but equally damning in its depiction of a culture and an industry nauseatingly complicit in Kelly’s reign of terror.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 15, 2019R. Kelly, MeToo, Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Effect, Horrible men

Asia Argento and the Problem with Heroes

In Trump’s America we need heroes more than ever. But what happens when the people we lionize fail us?

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 23, 2018Asia Argento, Harvey Weinstein, #Metoo

Exploiting our Archives, Paternity Break Edition: John K and the Art and Artlessness of the Public Apology

We can now add John Kricfalusi’s astonishingly off, deeply creepy “apology” to the growing pantheon of apologies by powerful people that just make everything worse.

Where Do We Draw the Line?

In a world where our heroes are being knocked off their pedestals at an alarming rate, where do we draw the line separating acceptable behavior from the unforgivable variety?

Why Must Everything Be Hopelessly Tainted?

Why must everything be hopelessly tainted!?!

The Big Whoop, Big Nate's Daddy BlogNathan RabinJanuary 10, 2018The Loud House, Horrible men, Harvey Weinstein, James Toback

Exploiting the Archives Week: The Two Coreys

In 2017, the two Coreys aren't Corey Haim and Corey Feldman but rather the two Corey Feldmans, one of whom (that would be the bad Corey) is really fucking things up for the good Corey

The Big WhoopNathan RabinDecember 26, 2017Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Harvey Weinstein