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

Danny Huston's 1988 Directorial Debut Mr. North is a Very Nice Motion Picture. Pleasant as Well!

My patron-funded exploration of Virginia Madsen hits another low-key charmer, the Danny Huston-directed 1988 comedy-drama Mr. North, starring Madsen, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, David Warner, Harry Dean Stanton and Anthony Edwards.

The Village People Musical Can't Stop the Music is a Vulgar Trash at its Campy Best

One of you kind souls paid me to revisit the trashy Village People musical Can’t Stop the Music. It’s one of the stupidest, most vulgar and trashy musicals ever made, and I mean that as high praise.

The Audacious 2018 Cult Mystery Comedy Under the Silver Lake Is Exactly My Kind of Crazy

The 2018 mystery comedy-thriller Under the Silver Lake is a goddamn mess and I love it!

Terry Dallies With a Girl in a Cyber-Plastic Bubble and Fights Inque's Daughter as My Patron-Funded Exploration of Batman Beyond Continues

Terry’s got girl problems of various stripes as my patron-funded look at Batman Beyond continues.

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Freakazoid Gets a Doggie Sidekick and We Learn His Origin Story as My Patron-Funded Exploration of Freakazoid Continues

Freakazoid gets a feral canine sidekick and we learn Freakazoid’s origin story as my patron-funded exploration of the mad, meta 1990s cult superhero cartoon spoof continues.

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The Terrific 1987 Baseball Comedy-Drama Long Gone Is So Much More Than Just a Minor Footnote in the Bull Durham Story

My patron-funded exploration of Virginia Madsen’s career hits another winner in 1987’s Long Gone, a terrific and perfectly cast HBO movie that’s like Bull Durham but set in the 1950s with Madsen in the Sue Sarandon role, William Peterson in the Kevin Costner part and a baby-faced Dermot Mulroney in the Tim Robbins part.

Oliver Stone's Endless, Exhausting 1999 Football Melodrama Any Given Sunday is a LOT, Some of It Good!

Jamie Foxx delivers a star-making performance as a brash superstar quarterback in 1999’s Any Given Sunday, an overstuffed, messy and occasionally inspired football melodrama.

A Patron-Funded Exploration of a 1990 Garfield Business Manual Led Me Down a Rabbit Hole That Includes Garfield Shamelessly Ripping Off Love Is...

A patron paid me to read Garfield’s bracingly off-brand 1990 The Me Book: A Guide to Superiority: How to Get It, Use It and Keep It that lead me to discover a whole world of janky, off-brand Garfield books, including one that shamelessly rips off Love Is…

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Oliver Stone's Lurid, Incredibly Racist 2012 Crime Melodrama Savages Fucking Sucks

Oliver Stone returned to the world of lurid crime movies with 2012’s hateful, borderline unwatchable Savages, a stinker distinguished only by an amusing, if all too brief character actor turn by John Travolta as a sleazy DEA agent.

The Hateful Eight Is Quentin Tarantino at his Most Brutal and Uncompromising

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the epic Netflix miniseries version of The Hateful Eight, the only Tarantino movie I hadn’t seen. It more than lives up to its reputation for being unrelentingly nasty and difficult.