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

Sadism, Not Toughness: Kristi Noem's Deliriously Misguided Puppy-Killing Anecdotes

Kristi Noem thought she would impress the American people with stories about killing a puppy and a goat. It did not go as planned.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinMay 1, 2024Kristi Noem, MAGA, Donald Trump, Robert De Niro, The Meg, The Meg 2, animals, dogs

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

In the Latest Round Up of Blurbs from my Upcoming Book I Look at The Comeback Trail, Top Five and WiredToo Much, Too Soon, Doomed!,

In the latest round up of blurbs from The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book on movies about making movies I cover the remake of The Comeback Trail, Doomed, Too Much Too Soon, Top Five and Zack and Miri Make a Porno

ShardsNathan RabinNovember 1, 2023Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Eddie Griffin, George Gallo

How Success Spoiled Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro’s riveting turn in Killers of the Flower Moon is a potent reminder of both what he’s capable of and just how far he has fallen.

There Are Probably Better Ways to Celebrate Robert De Niro's 80th Birthday Than By Re-Running This Piece on His God-Awful Vehicle The Comedian But This Is the One We're Going With

What if Robert De Niro made a movie about stand-up comedy that was as skin-crawlingly terrible as The King Of Comedy was great? Last year, he totally did!

Elia Kazan's Elephantine 1976 Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a Gorgeous Bore

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinJanuary 23, 2023Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, Elia Kazan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hollywood, Tony Curtis

The 2013 John Travolta/Robert De Niro Stinker Killing Season is Deadly Dull

Hoo boy. This one was NOT good.

Barry Levinson's Beloved 1997 Dark Comedy Wag the Dog is an Eternally Relevant Satire

To promote the just-launched Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror book we’re running an entry from it on the classic show-biz political satire Wag the Dog.

Exploiting the Archives: Control Nathan Rabin #91: Hoo Boy Did I Ever Not Care for Joker

One of you kind souls paid me a hundred dollars to finally experience and write about Joker, a movie I really hated. #Notafan

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #178 Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

My 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.