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

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: The Barefoot Contessa, Fool's Paradise, The Miracle of the Bells, The Player and Super 8

In my latest round-up of blurbs from my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror I write about The Barefoot Contessa, Fool’s Paradise, The Miracle of the Bells, The Player and Super 8

Ready Player One is the Worst Thing Steven Spielberg Has Ever Done and That Includes Hunting Hobos for Sport

I hated, hated, hated this movie!

Scalding Hot TakesNathan RabinJanuary 9, 2023Steven Spielberg, video games, geek culture

My Patron-Funded Exploration of Freakazoid! Comes to an End with a Reverent Appreciation of the Best Thing Steven Spielberg Has Ever Been Involved With

My patron-funded exploration of the cult superhero spoof Freakazoid! comes to a bittersweet but deeply satisfying conclusion,

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 13, 2022Steven Spielberg, superheroes, satire, David Warner, finale, cult, silly

The 1984 Video Game Fantasy The Last Starfighter is a Uniquely Satisfying Star Wars Knockoff

You know what cult movie/childhood favorite really holds up? 1984’s The Last Starfighter, one of the first and last time people thought, “Whoa, those images come from a COMPUTER? Fucking amazing!”

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Is NOT a Good Movie, Nor a Good Showcase for Shia LaBeouf

You generous monsters made me and Clint watch and talk about the movie where a once-behoved franchise really Nuked the Fridge, metaphorically and of course literally as well.

Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinDecember 1, 2022Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg

Freakazoid Tangles with the Lobe and Eastern European Baddies in Parodies of The Godfather and Mission: Impossible

My patron-funded exploration of the cult cartoon Freakazoid! continues with a look at parodies of The Godfather and Mission: Impossible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 31, 2022The Godfather, Steven Spielberg, Animaniacs, The Brain, parody

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #260 Freakazoid! "Five Day Forecast/The Dance of Doom/Handman" and "Candle Jack/Toby Danger in Doomsday Bet/The Lobe"

My patron-funded exploration of the bonkers 1990s superhero spoof Freakazoid! begins with a fond look at its first two jam-packed episodes.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 31, 2022Steven Spielberg, post-modern

The Big Squeeze: Day Seventy-Nine: "Jurassic Park" from Alapalooza

I recall the time they found those fossilized mosquitoes, and before long they were cloning DNA!

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinJune 22, 2021"Weird Al" Yankovic, Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg

Exploiting our Archives: Why Hollywood Won't Cast Andie MacDowell Anymore

The sordid and unbelievable reason we don't see much of MacDowell onscreen these days.

ClickbaitNathan RabinDecember 17, 2018Steven Spielberg, Andie MacDowell, clickbait, murder, true crime, bull shit

Day Eighty-Two: "Jurassic Park" from Alapalooza

The Weird Accordion to Al goes to the movies for a campy single that cross-pollinates the work of bestselling author Michael Crichton and legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb.