In the first entry in the Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Literature Society we explore Mayte Garcia's poignant, powerful memoir of her life with ex-husband Prince.
Read MoreWhite folks on TikTok are at it again.
Read MoreMadonna challenged herself with a brutal lead role in Dangerous Game, Abel Ferrara’s seedy 1995 show-business melodrama but delivered her usual terrible performance.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with the bizarre, bizarrely racist Luc Besson-directed 2006 animation/live-action hybrid Arthur and the Invisibles, a fascinatingly misbegotten project with a voice cast that includes Bowie, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Harvey Keitel, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg.
Read MoreMadonna stumbled yet again with 2000’s The Next Best Thing, a well-intentioned attempt to forthrightly address gay issues in a way that’s equally insulting and inept.
Read MoreHis patients, tragically, die before they can pay!
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to explore the many nadirs of Madonna’s film career, including the mind-bogglingly abysmal 1986 adventure romance Shanghai Surprise.
Read MoreOne of y’all generous souls paid me a cool seventy-five dollars to revisit one of the many, many nadirs in Madonna’s film career, the screamingly unfunny 1987 comedy Who’s That Girl
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me seventy five dollars to re-experience Dick Tracy, the cinematic sensation of 1990 and a delightful exercise in escapism that holds up pretty damn well.
Read MoreOne of you generous sadists had me re-watch co-writer/director Madonna’s ridiculous vanity project about Wallis Simpson and a horny contemporary woman who falls deep into lust with a hunky security guard played by a pre-stardom Oscar Isaac. It was quite poor.
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