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

I Just Barely Missed the 30th Anniversary of the Enjoyable Bonkers JCVD Vehicle Sudden Death so I'm Rerunning My Piece On It

One of you kind souls paid me to see and write about 1995’s Sudden Death, which is all kinds of lurid fun, thanks in no small part due to Powers Boothe’s magnificent performance as the scenery-chewing villain and Jean-Claude Van Damme killing the Penguins’ mascot.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 25, 2024Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Peter Hyams, hockey, sports

The Notorious 2005 Ray Bradbury Adaptation A Sound of Thunder Deserves Its Reputation as One of the Biggest All-Time Flops

I finally tackle one of the biggest all-time flops, Peter Hyams’ disastrous, almost impressively inept 2005 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder starring a woefully miscast Edward Burns as a Big Deal Scientist and Ben Kingsley as a capitalist anti-Christ with a thick mane of snow-white hair.

My Year of Flops II, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinApril 7, 2023Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Ray Bradbury, My World of Flops, My Year of Flops II, Peter Hyams