David Wain's sublimely silly Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is pure pleasure, an instant classic and the Funniest Movie of the Year. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/gail-daugh...

The Fractured Favorite at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is Hal Ashby's lovely 1970 directorial debut, The Landlord. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-fractu...

The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror of the day is the 1999 masterpiece American Movie nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-daily-...

My long journey through the films of Stephen King hits a high point with 2017's Gerald's Game, Mike Flanagan's masterful adaptation of King's seemingly unfilmable 1992 novel, with a career-defining performance by Carla Gugino. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/carla-gugi...

The Fractured Favorite of the day is the 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-fractu...

In the latest entry in My World of Flops, I wrote about The Electric State, a 320 million dollar steampunk stinkeroo that's bad even by the standards of a late-period Chris Pratt vehicle. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror is 1982's Frances, a soul-crushing biopic of Frances Farmer, who will come back as fire and burn all the liars and leave a blanket of ash on the ground. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

I'm sure people unlucky enough to share a last name with Donald Trump's best friends appreciate this note, but it made me chuckle.

The Daily Shard of the Day is American Dreamer, a Wildly Self-Indulgent Documentary About The Last Movie, Dennis Hopper's Wildly Self-Indulgent Follow-Up to Easy Rider nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-daily-...

There Are More Respectful Ways to Honor Louise Lasser's Passing Than By Rerunning a Piece on Her Disastrous Saturday Night Live Hosting Stint, But It's the One We're Going With www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

I never thought I would write this, but if you like the new Minions movie, you'll love my most recent book, The Fractured Mirror, as they're both swooningly sincere yet funny tributes to Hollywood and the magic of make-believe. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-funny-... www.nathanrabin.com/shop

In the latest entry in My World of Flops, I take a gander back at the disastrous live-action remake of Snow White, a boondoggle of epic proportions that somehow managed to offend everyone on all sides of the political spectrum. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Funny, Charming, and Movie-Mad Minions & Monsters Is Far Better Than a Minions Sequel Has Any Right to Be nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-funny-...

Aaron Paul is a Geeky Academic Thrust Into a Life of Crime in the Overachieving Hardboiled Dark Comedy The Get Out nathanrabin.substack.com/p/aaron-paul...

I discovered a lot of fascinatingly terrible, obscure movies about filmmaking while researching my book The Fractured Mirror, like Forever, a hilariously bad retro romp about a guy who moves into a house filled with the horny ghosts of silent-film stars. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror is 1944's Follow the Boys, an all-star patriotism orgy featuring W.C. Fields' comical billiards and Orson Welles doing magic with assistant Marlene Dietrich. It's one of over 500 movies about movies in my massive book. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror is the Star-Studded Pornography-themed Dud The Amateurs nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-daily-...

In Honor of Dan Aykroyd's 74th Birthday, We're Rerunning This Piece on the Dreadful 1990 Mismatched Buddy Comedy Loose Cannons www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

I explore the too-strange-for-fiction story of 2000's The Watcher, a hilariously bad thriller that exists because Keanu Reeves' assistant forged his name on a contract, and Reeves figured it was easier to make the movie than to battle it out in court. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror is Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, perhaps the only 8 1/2 homage to meet or exceed its inspiration. It's one of the many essential and unique masterpieces covered in my massive encyclopedia of movies about filmmaking. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/daily-shar...

Dreamcatcher and The Mist Star Thomas Jane is Riveting as a Guilt-Ridden Farmer Who Kills His Wife in the Quietly Devastating 2017 Stephen King Adaptation 1922 nathanrabin.substack.com/p/dreamcatch...

In the latest entry in My World of Flops, I take a mortified look back at the comically effusive biopic REAGAN, which shamefully excludes the highlight of its subject's political AND show-biz career: the recording of the novelty single, "Ronnie's Rap" www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

ICYMI: I have an ambitious column at my website called The Lean Years, where I write about the creative declines of great directors. I'm doing Tim Burton now, and just dropped a very deep dive into CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

ICYMI: The Spectacularly Silly 2012 Flop Board Game Adaptation Battleship Is for 8 Year-Olds, 80 Year-Olds, and No One In Between www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

I'm having a two-day flash sale at my Dashery store. Until Sunday night, all 22-dollar T-shirts are only 16 dollars. Everything else is on sale as well. Check it out! Be FASHIONABLE this summer! nathans.dashery.com

Elon Musk is using his enormous power to promote Citizen Vigilante, a viciously racist anti-immigrant screed from a filmmaker widely considered the worst in the world. I had a much different take, in that I hated it with every fiber of my being.

As the co-author of Postal, a book defending Uwe Boll and Postal, it brings me no joy to report that his comeback film, Citizen Vigilante, is the most racist movie since The Birth of a Nation. There's bad, and then there's Citizen Vigilante nathanrabin.substack.com/p/citizen-vi...

This reflecting pool fiasco is not the first time that Trump has tangled with AliG.

The Ernest Goes to Africa and It's Pat! My World of Flops pieces both did quite well, so I'm keeping the "tacky crap from the 1990s" theme going with a piece on 1994's POLICE ACADEMY: MISSION TO MOSCOW, the dud that put the franchise out of its misery. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

The Father's Day sale at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is on! Until Sunday, paid subscriptions are 30 percent off. Get free copies of my big new book, The Fractured Mirror, & a "Weird Al" Yankovic coloring book for a 35 dollars annual subscription! Cheep! nathanrabin.substack.com/fathersdaydeal