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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #209: Shadow Hours (2000)

My patron-funded jaunt through the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with a seedy morality tale in which Peter Weller plays the devil and Balthazar Getty his protege in all things wicked.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #208 Dead Tides (1996)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Tawny Kitaen hits another low with Dead Tides, a forgettable action/erotic-thriller hybrid costarring wrestling superstar and bagpipes enthusiast “Rowdy” Roddy Piper.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #207 Batman Beyond "Babel" and "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot"

Shriek returns with bloody vengeance on his mind and Terry’s friend acquires a robot girlfriend that causes all kinds of problems as my patron-funded exploration of Batman Beyond continues.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #206 Lurkers (1988)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to see a very strange, obscure movie called Lurkers.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #205 Wall Street (1987)

Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his mesmerizing turn as an evil businessman in Oliver Stone’s zeitgeist-capturing morality tale of greed and ambition, Wall Street.

Control Nathan Rabin #204 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

David Bowie delivers one of his most powerful performances as a defiant Allied officer in a Japanese POW camp in the mesmerizing 1983 psychodrama Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #203 Batman Beyond: "Mind Games" and "Revenant"

My patron-funded exploration of the cult animated superhero show Batman Beyond explores the horrors of high school and the mind in episodes that find Bruce and Terry facing off against The Brain Trust, a secret society of telepathic villain and an old nemesis/former classmate of Terry’s.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #202 Puppet (1999)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with a particularly random obscurity in 1999’s Puppet, a hilariously terrible thriller distinguished mainly by off the wall early performances by Artie Lange as a Russian enforcer and Jim Gaffigan as a horny, profane newlywed.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #201 Hercules in the Underworld (1994)

My patron-funded exploration of the films and television projects of the late Tawny Kitaen explores a weirdly poignant Hercules TV movie where the legendary beauty dies but is brought back to the land of the living by Hercules’ love.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #200 Run, Ronnie, Run (2002)

For Control Nathan Rabin 4.0’s landmark 200th entry I took a not so fond look back at the enduring disappointment of 2003’s Run, Ronnie, Run.