As part of a patron-funded deep dive into the complete discography of video vixen Tawny Kitaen, I experienced the glorious lunacy of the 1986 melodrama Crystal Heart, which is essentially a hair metal take on The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, only infinitely stupider and more ridiculous.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to see 2007’s Even Money, a gambling addiction-themed Crash knockoff with an amazing, amazingly random cast that includes Kim Basinger, Kelsey Grammar, Nick Cannon, Tim Roth, Forest Whitaker, Jay Mohr, Carla Gugino and Danny DeVito as a charming magician who strikes up a tender, unlikely friendship with Basinger’s troubled novelist.
Read MoreMister Freeze is a tragic hero and teenage Bruce Wayne squares off against a darkly funny parody of The Fantastic Four in two rivetingly bleak, villain-focused episodes from the first season of Batman Beyond.
Read MoreMadonna stumbled yet again with 2000’s The Next Best Thing, a well-intentioned attempt to forthrightly address gay issues in a way that’s equally insulting and inept.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to revisit Danny DeVito’s darkly funny directorial debut, a riff on Strangers on a Train pairing DeVito’s nebbishy loser with a revenge-crazed Billy Crystal.
Read MoreAs part of a patron-funded exploration of the films of Tawny Kitaen I wrote about an achingly mediocre 1985 TV movie starring Robby Benson as a Jersey guy living his Los Angeles dream, literally as well as figuratively.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to see the 2006 show-biz satire Danny Roane: First Time Director, where first-time director Andy Dick plays a troubled fuck-up EXACTLY like Andy Dick.
Read MoreDavid Bowie was smartly cast as a vampire facing down his own mortality in Tony Scott’s riveting 1983 mood piece The Hunger
Read MoreFrancis Ford Coppola ended his career as a studio filmmaker with this perfectly serviceable adaptation of a John Grisham novel.
Read MoreAugust will be the month of Control Nathan Rabin 4.0.
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