John Cusack — 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: What the Hell is Going on With John Cusack These Days?

I’m pretty sure that most of the “movies” John Cusack has made in the last decade are imaginary. Just look at them! How could they possibly be real?

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 1, 2024John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Robert De Niro, Travolta/Cage, Tubi

Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is Southern Gothic Done Wrong

Kevin Spacey’s real-life fall from grace only makes Clint Eastwood’s cartoonishly Southern 1997 literary adaptation Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil even more of a fascinating, problematic mess.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 18, 2023Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, trans, Clint Eastwood, The Lady Chablis, Jude Law, Savannah, Georgia, The South

The 2017 Stinker Arsenal Is Pure Dreck With the Exception of Nicolas Cage's Crazed Villain Turn

Nicolas Cage reprised a role he played in the 1993 obscurity Deadfall in 2017’s Arsenal as a weird prank on the universe/cosmic joke without a punchline.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinAugust 22, 2023Nicolas Cage, Adrien Grenier, Johnathan Schaech, John Cusack, direct to video

2013 The Frozen Ground is a Sleazy Stinker That Reunites Con Air's Nicolas Cage and John Cusack For No Damn Reasons at All

John Cusack is real life serial killer Robert Hansen in 2013’s streaming The Frozen Ground, a movie that really fucking sucks.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJanuary 24, 202350 Cent, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Vannessa Hudgens, Robert Hansen, serial killer, Film, Alaska

Hoo Boy Is Billy Crystal's Unwatchable Vanity Project America's Sweethearts Ever a Stinkeroo!

Billy Crystal’s obnoxious and unfunny movie world comedy America’s Sweethearts would be perfect for My World of Flops except that it was inexplicably a hit.

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinApril 27, 2022John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, Christopher Walken, Seth Green, Hank Azaria, Alan Arkin, Billy Crystal

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #228 Class (1983)

My reader-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen begins on a low note with the dire 1983 The Graduate knock-off Class, which subjects the future Oscar-nominee to all manner of humiliations.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2021Rob Lowe, Virginia Madsen, Jaqueline Bisset, John Cusack, Alan Ruck, teen sex comedy, intergenerational romance, Andrew McCarthy, debut

The Travolta/Cage Project #48: Con Air (1997)

I kind of love this trashy, ridiculous movie.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinDecember 17, 2020Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Malkovich, John Cusack, prison, Jerry Bruckheimer