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Ripley Has Mad Basketball Skills in the Loony 1997 Flop Alien: Resurrection But the Movie is Anything but a Slam Dunk

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2024Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Alien, Film, Sequel, Michael Wincott, Science Fiction, action

Chuck Norris is a Weird God Figure in the Unspeakably Awful Action-Comedy Sidekicks

You generous bastards made me watch the movie that continued Chuck Norris' vicious assault—on our funnybones—with yellow face from bad guy Joe Piscopo. Tasteful yellow face.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinFebruary 13, 2023Chuck Norris, Cannon, action, Jonathan Brandis, Joe Piscopo

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #124 Vanishing Son (1994)

A patron-funded exploration of the films of troubled starlet Rebecca Gayheart begins with a look at the wonderfully insane 1994 TV movie Vanishing Son, a simultaneously progressive and reactionary look at two very different Chinese brothers who follow antithetical paths upon immigrating to the United States.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 14, 2020Russell Wong, Rob Cohen, China, immigration, martial arts, action, TV movie

Baby Cannonuly #6 The Hitman (1992)

My Chuck Norris binge concludes with The Hitman sixth and final vehicle for the hirsute denim enthusiast I'll be watching for this project. Chuck befriends a moppet, pretends to go bad and battles bad guy Michael Parks, a slightly better actor than ol' Chuckie Baby.