Jamie Lee Curtis — 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: In 2022's Surreally Misconceived Halloween Ends Michael Myers Makes a New Halloween Friend in Corey, the Worst Character in the History of Film

It’s all about Corey, baby, in the spectacularly misconceived 2022 stinker Halloween Ends.

My World Of Flops, Great Catch UpNathan RabinDecember 27, 2023Jamie Lee Curtis, Corey, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, horror, sequel

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: The Kid & I, Paparazzi, Pawparazzi, Slipstream and The World's Greatest Lover

I’ve been hard at work on The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book on movies about the movie business so I figured I would share a selection of entries from my big old literary baby.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #133 Drowning Mona (2000)

As part of my patron-funded exploration of the films of Danny DeVito I re-watched the critically lambasted 2000 dark comedy Drowning Mona, which is as funny as it is mean.

The Travolta/Cage Project #21/My World of Flops Sweaty Fuck Palaces Case File 159: Perfect (1985)

A hotshot Rolling Stone reporter covers the story of a lifetime—sexy people exercising and then fucking—in this scorchingly hot and unbelievably stupid John Travolta flop from the creative team behind Urban Cowboy with a mesmerizingly sexy turn from Jamie Lee Curtis.