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

"After You've Gone" Is True Detective at its Most Straightforward and Least Compelling

We’re only an episode away from the finale of True Detective. Get ready for an anti-climax.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 26, 2024Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey

The 1990 Television Movie Daughter of the Darkness Found Auteur Stuart Gordon Chafing Against the Restrictions of Network Television

Stuart Gordon is a true auteur as well as a frightmaster but his 1990 television movie Daughter of Darkness is distressingly impersonal despite a solid turn from Anthony Perkins as an Eastern European vampire with dignity.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 21, 2024Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Stuart Gordon, TV movie, Film

Beyond the Lead Characters Being Identical, David Cronenberg's 1988 Masterpiece Dead Ringers is NOTHING Like The Parent Trap

One of you kind souls paid me to finally get around to seeing Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg’s 1988 masterpiece of chilly body horror, with an extraordinarily lead performance by Jeremy Irons as identical twin doctors in trouble.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 2, 2024David Cronenberg, body horror, Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, medicine, doctor, Film, Canadian, cult

The Notorious Highlander 2: The Renegade Version Offers a, Shall We Say, Unique Look at Life in the Year 2024

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to re-experience 1991’s Highlander 2: Renegade Version, one of the most famously terrible movies ever made, and for that I thank you.

It's New Year's Eve So That Can Only Mean One Thing: I'm Rerunning My Piece on 1980's New Year's Evil

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to watch and write about the wonderfully terrible New Year’s Eve-themed rock and roll slasher cult classic New Year’s Eve, from the fine folks over at Cannon.

Best of 2023: Hollywood Cancelled Max Landis So He's Making Weird Pitch Movie Hybrids on Youtube Where He Plays Many of the Roles That are Surreally Terrible

Hollywood cancelled Max Landis so he decided to make weird pitch/movie/reading hybrids where he plays most of the roles.

it’s something! Something very bad.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 26, 2023Max Landis, metoo, Justice League, superheroes

Holy Crap Does Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Ever Suck

People made fun of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps for having a dumb subtitle but they should mock it for being laughably terrible.

They Sorta Made an Animated Samurai Remake of Blazing Saddles and Hoo Boy is it Ever Terrible

As boomers will be happy to tell you, you could NEVER make Blazing Saddles today but you can make a bad animated samurai loosely based on Mel Brooks’ classic comedy. But why, for the love of God, would you want to?

My World Of Flops, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 12, 2023

1991's The Doors Epitomizes Everything That Makes Oliver Stone the Absolute Worst

One legendary asshole pays reverent, insufferable tribute to another.

Hoo boy. This one was tough.

The Rancid 2006 Dark Comedy Deck the Halls Is Ho, Ho Horrible!

One of you kind souls paid me to suffer through the curdled 2006 Christmas comedy Deck the Halls, which is just like DeVito’s classic dark comedies except that it’s fucking terrible.