Peter Fonda — 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

Rando!Nathan RabinJanuary 2, 2024Asia Argento, Jeremy Renner, Winona Ryder, MeToo, Marilyn Manson, Peter Fonda, Jeremy Sisto, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Bourdain

Best of 2023: No Sequel Has Been More Deliriously Off-Brand than the Pro-War, Pro-Soldier Sequel to Easy Rider, Easy Rider: The Ride Back

An Ohio lawyer sued to get the rights to co-write and starred in a “sequel” to Easy Rider. Tragically and hilariously, he succeeded.

My World Of Flops, Literary excerptNathan RabinJanuary 1, 2024Jeff Fahey, Rance Howard, Michael Nouri, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, sequel

Nicolas Cage's 2015 Political Drama The Runner Sucks in a Different Way Than Cage's Usual Fare But it Still Fucking Sucks

The 2015 political drama The Runner was atypical fare for Nicolas Cage at the time but like many films from this era it fucking sucks and was an unmistakable failure.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinMarch 22, 2023Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Wendell Baker, Connie Nielsen

Dennis Hopper Changed Everything With His 1969 Debut Easy Rider and Nothing With His Final Film, 1994's Chasers

Dennis Hopper didn’t direct a lot of movies but good lord did his 1969 debut Easy Rider make a seismic impact. The same, alas, is not true of his breezy whiff of a last movie, the silly 1994 road comedy Chasers.

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinJune 9, 2022Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, Dean Stockwell, Terry Southern, Seymour Cassel, Gary Busey, Marilu Henner

The Travolta/Cage Project Ghost Rider (2007)

The 2007 botch of Ghost Rider still sucks but Cage’s lead performance is an absolute delight.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinJanuary 3, 2022Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda, Sam Elliott, Mark Steven Johnson, Marvel, motorcycles, camp, fun

The Travolta/Cage Project #37 Deadfall (1993)

Nicolas Cage gives one of his most transcendently insane performances in Deadfall, an otherwise absolute dire hard-boiled crime movie co-written by the Green Book guy.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinAugust 18, 2020Nicolas Cage, James Coburn, Michael Biehn, Peter Fonda, Charlie Sheen, Neo-Noir, Green Book

Easy Rider: The Ride Back Edition

The sky was crystal blue, just like 9/11 when I discovered a movie (Easy Rider: The Ride Back) so fucking nuts and preposterous seeming—it's a no-name, low-budget, faintly Libertarian official sequel to Easy Rider that's mostly about respecting veterans—I had to share it with the world.

Exploiting the Archives!Nathan RabinFebruary 1, 2018Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, The Flop House, We Hate Movies, How Did This Get Made