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

Take a Groovy Trip to Space Jail with Luc Besson's Wildly Derivative Escape From New York Knock-Off Lockout

2012’s Lockout got busted in French courts for plagiarizing Escape from New York and Escape from Los Angeles but is a whole lot of guilty fun all the same.

Thanks to Fine Performances from Bruce Greenwood and Virginia Madsen, the Seedy 1994 Neo-Noir Bitter Vengeance is Surprisingly Non-Terrible

Virginia Madsen made a LOT of interchangeable, generically titled erotic thrillers in the late 1980s and 1990s. The 1994 television movie Bitter Vengeance is certainly one of them, but it’s a cut above due to fine work by Bruce Greenwood as Madsen’s malevolent hubby.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 20, 2022Bruce Greenwood, Virginia Madsen

The Love Witch is a Groovy, Stunningly Realized Tribute to the Camp and Kitsch of Late 1960s Horror

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the kitsch majesty of The Love Witch.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 19, 2022Film, camp

The 1982 Flop Six Weeks is a Stone Cold Christmas Bummer

If you enjoy watching children die onscreen then check out the hilariously awful 1982 melodrama Six Weeks, AKA The Book of Henrietta.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 17, 2022Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, melodrama, Tony Bill

The Semi-Star-Studded, Roger Corman-Executive Produced 1993 Erotic Thriller Wastes Virginia Madsen in a Bizarrely Bad Vehicle for Tim Daly, Badass

Hoo boy. This one was NOT good.

My Patron-Funded Exploration of Freakazoid! Comes to an End with a Reverent Appreciation of the Best Thing Steven Spielberg Has Ever Been Involved With

My patron-funded exploration of the cult superhero spoof Freakazoid! comes to a bittersweet but deeply satisfying conclusion,

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 13, 2022Steven Spielberg, superheroes, satire, David Warner, finale, cult, silly

The 1984 Video Game Fantasy The Last Starfighter is a Uniquely Satisfying Star Wars Knockoff

You know what cult movie/childhood favorite really holds up? 1984’s The Last Starfighter, one of the first and last time people thought, “Whoa, those images come from a COMPUTER? Fucking amazing!”

Albert Pyun's 1989 Science Fiction Hit Jean-Claude Van Damme Vehicle Cyborg is a Fascinating Disaster

The late cult filmmaker Albert Pyun spent his fascinating life and career making projects like the 1989 post-apocalyptic Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Cyborg, which was built from the scraps of an abandoned Spider-Man adaptation and Masters of the Universe sequel that’s all sorts of interesting if not exactly “good.”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 8, 2022Jean-Claude Van Damme, Albert Pyun

Stuart Gordon's 1989 Cult Classic Robot Jox Gives Us the Giant Robot Fighting Action We Crave

Despite a famously troubled production, Stuart Gordon’s goofy 1990 science-fiction sports comedy-drama Robot Jox gives us the robot-on-robot fighting action we angrily demand and deserve.

The Notorious 2018 Flop Adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time Is Corny, Old-Fashioned and Deeply Entertaining

Ava DuVernay’s flop 2018 adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time is trippy, corny and moving and wildly entertaining if you’re in the right frame of mind (i.e stoned)

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 5, 2022Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Ava DuVernay