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

The Random Rerun of the Day is Guy Ritchie's Kabbalah-influenced 2005 Stinker Revolver

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Guy Ritchie’s fascination with the Kabbalah, for example, inspired one of his shittiest movies, 2005’s Revolver.

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There Are Probably More Dignified Ways to Remember Director Ted Kotcheff Than by Re-Running This Piece on Weekend at Bernie's II But This is the One We're Going With

I’m sure this movie needed to be made.

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Big Changes coming to Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas!

I’ve made some sizable changed over at my other site, Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas, in an attempt to get more paid subscribers.

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When Harvey Weinstein Met Barbie

The low-budget, direct-to-video Barbie movie My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie snagged a cameo from an Oscar-winning big shot. Unfortunately for all involved, the Hollywood player was Harvey Weinstein.

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To Elon Musk, the Government Worker Whose Lives He's Ruined Are Nothing More than NPCs

You can do anything to people you do not consider human, but rather digital nobodies without dignity or worth.

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The Looming Great Depression Makes the Terrific, Economic Downturn-based 2019 Dark Comedy Hustlers Almost Too Real and Relatable

We’re headed For hard times, which makes the recession-fueled 2019 hit Hustlers, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lopez, painfully relatable.

2005's Homecoming, Joe Dante's Brilliant Satire About the Iraq War, is More Timely and Relevant Than Ever

The Joe Dante-directed 2005 satire Homecoming very overtly addresses the iniquity and madness of the Iraq War but is timelier now than ever.

There are more respectful ways to honor Val Kilmer than by rerunning this piece on 2017's The Snowman but it's the one we're going with

Great meme, terrible movie.

In His Memoir, Matthew Perry Describes the Grossout Comedy Serving Sara as a Personal and Professional Nadir. He Wasn't Wrong!

In his memoir, Matthew Perry described the filming of the 2002 grossout comedy Serving Sara as a personal and professional nadir. So I had to see it.

He’s not wrong! It’s mind-bogglingly awful, a featherweight comedy that’s actually a tragedy.

My Val Kilmer Story

I had the surreal honor of doing a Q&A with the late, great Val Kilmer at a big comic book convention that didn’t turn out quite as planned.

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