Our patron-funded exploration of the cult animated show Batman Beyond continues with episodes about a slinky shape-shifter and a nerd with a powerful psychic bond with a powerful killer robot.
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One of you kind-hearted weirdoes paid me one hundred dollars to experience the 2016 melodrama Blind, a crazed vanity project from Norman Mailer’s sons that casts Alec Baldwin as the greatest, most important writer in the history of the world and Demi Moore as a woman of privilege with the incredible honor of knowing him.
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In the first-ever television-focussed Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 I wrote about the first two episodes of the cult animated series Batman Beyond as the opening entry in an ongoing series on the show.
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One of you kind souls paid me to revisit the famously disastrous 1994 feature film adaptation of Street Fighter, which pitted a coked out of his gourd Jean-Claude Van Damme against a dying, gaunt, awesomely over-the-top Raul Julia.
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One of you kind folks paid me to re-visit a flashy David Mamet heist movie starring Gene Hackman, Sam Rockwell, Delroy Lindo and Danny DeVito that’s either very clever, astonishingly stupid, or both.
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One of y’all generous souls slipped me a cool hundred bones all cyber-like to watch Mel Brooks’ deeply unfunny 1993 Robin Hood spoof Men in Tights, starring Cary Elwes (who, rumor has it, has gone mysteriously missing somewhere in New Jersey) and Dave Chappelle in his first major role.
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Our patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Sam Peckinpah comes to an end with 1977’s Cross of Iron, an even grimmer than usual bloodbath pitting Nazis against Russians at the end of World War II.
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Our patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another big milestone with 1996’s Basquiat, which unforgettably cast a terrific Bowie as Andy Warhol and an even better Jeffrey Wright in a star-making turn as the legendary painter and art world icon.
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One of you kind souls paid me to see and write about one of the Zucker Brothers’ sole non-parody, the brutally funny dark comedy Ruthless People, with Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater all at their very best.
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One of you kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to see the inexplicably star-studded 1998 crime comedy Judas Kiss, whose cast includes Philip Baker Hall, Roscoee Lee Browne, Hal Holbrook, Alan Rickman and even Emma Thompson, who had already won two Oscars when she signed on for this stinkeroo.
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