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

In the Latest Fractured Mirror Entry I Look Back at Burden of Dreams, Ed Wood, Full Frontal, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Postcards from the Edge

In the latest round-up of movies about movies I watched for my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror I write about a bunch of interesting shit!

ShardsNathan RabinJuly 6, 2023Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Werner Herzog, Meryl Streep

The Travolta/Cage Project #81 The Ant Bully (2006)

Nicolas Cage is a lot of fun as a wizard ant, and Paul Giamatti, Bruce Campbell and Ricardo Montalban (in his final role) are a hoot in the otherwise dreadful., weirdly Marxist CGI kid’s flick The Ant Bully.

First and Last 2.0 Nora Ephron: This Is My Life (1992) and Julie & Julia (2009)

Nora Ephron Month kicks off with a look at 1992’s This is My Life, her charming directorial debut and final film, 2010’s Julie & Julia, which is half great, half terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #25 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again

One of you kind-hearted sadists gave me one hundred dollars to watch and write about an ABBA jukebox musical sequel that’s utterly ridiculous and all kinds of fun.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 18, 2018Meryl Streep, ABBA, musical, jukebox musical, Cher, sequel