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What giant project should I tackle for 2024?

2023: A Look Back

What movie should I write about for week 4 of 1994 catch-up?

For 1994 Week 2 Which Film Should I do?

What movie should I begin my journey through 1994 with? (at my other site)

Disney's Abysmal New Animated Film Wish is Bad Branding Masquerading as Entertainment

It's that time again!

I REALLY Did Not Care for Wonka

The 2012 Sorta Remake, Kinda Sequel Silent Night Is a Frustratingly Generic Yuletide Slasher Mediocrity

With 2010's Hilarious MacGruber, the Curious Phenomenon of Saturday Night Live Movies Ended on a High Note

1991's Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy-Maker Found Former Critic Mickey Rooney Joining the Fun

Holy Crap Is Godzilla Minus One Ever a Great Movie!

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: The Initiation Made the Bold, Idiotic Decision to Forego the Whole "Killer Santa" Shtick for Cronenbergian Body Horror

1989's SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT Was Directed by the Man Who Made Two Lane Blacktop But It Is Not Quite as Good

John Woo's Silent Night Is Talky But Good

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 Is One of the Craziest, Sleaziest and Most Deranged Pieces of Shit I've Ever Seen. That's Why It's Great and Everyone Should See It

It's that time again!

1984's Infamous Silent Night, Deadly Night Scandalized A Nation By Fusing Kris Kringle and Michael Myers

Garbage Day is coming! Announcing the Silent Night, Deadly Night Project!

It's Black Friday! Please Consider Buying My Books From Me At My Site's Shop!

Preview of my upcoming blog post about going to the Good Burger Pop Up Event at Arby's

Eli Roth's Rock Solid Thanksgiving Does Pretty Much Everything It Says It Will on the Label

Great Catch Up DCU edition

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: The Trust (2016)

The Marvels Is Cute, Slight and a Reasonable Amount of Fun

The Joy of Positivity: The Woman Chaser (1999)

The Joy of Positivity: The Ice Harvest

It's that time again!

Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe is a Magical Cult Treasure That Lives Up, and Down, To Its Name

The Holiday season has arrived! Time to buy my many, many books about national treasure "Weird Al" Yankovic

The Joy of Positivity: Short Term 12

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla is a Haunting, Powerful Look at Elvis as the Ultimate Flawed First Boyfriend

The Joy of Positivity: Fear of a Black Hat (1994)

Stuart Saves His Family is a Tragicomic But Mostly Just Tragic Winner!

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: Overnight

Which terrible Saturday Night Live hosts should I write up for My World of Flops?

The Joy of Positivity: Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Five Nights at Freddy's, the Movie About Ghost Children Possessing Giant Anthropomorphic Animatronic Animals is, Shockingly, Not Good.

Congratulations to me!

It's that time again!

Which movie with nasty little guys should I write up for The Great Catch-Up?

James Belushi Saves the Ghetto in the Ridiculous 1987 White Savior Drama The Principal

Killers of the Flower Moon is Martin Scorsese's Heaven's Gate. I Mean That as High Praise!

It's that time again!

The big question

The Molly Shannon Vehicle Superstar is Weird and Sometimes Funny but Probably Does Not Need to Exist

The biggest question/quiz of all!

The Joy of Positivity: Owning Mahowny (2003)

Which Michael Bay movie should I see for the Great Catch Up?

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is Two Hours and Forty-Eight Minutes of Pure Pleasure

Which Saw Movie Without Saw in Its Title Should I see for the Great Catch-Up?

Which Tyler Perry Should I Watch Next for the Great Catch-Up?

The Joy of Positivity Pick: To Die For (1995)

James Belushi and John Ritter Save the World in 1987's Ingratiatingly Insane Real Men

It's time for the ultimate decision!

The Joy of Positivity: Chucky

Great Catch-Up Poll #2

The Exorcist: Believer is One Hell of a Terrible Time at the Movies

It's that time again

Introducing The Great Catch-Up Over at Nathan Rabin's Happy Place!

Introducing the Great Catch Up of 2023

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

1998's A Night at the Roxbury Was Always Awful and Brutally Unfunny But Now It's Creepy As Well

The Joy of Positivity: Vampire's Kiss

Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie is Shockingly Non-Terrible

The Joy of Positivity: Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

The Joy of Positivity: Martin (1977)

The 1986 Whoopi Goldberg Vehicle Jumping Jack Flash is Anything But a Gas, Gas, Gas

It's that time again!

The Spooktacular Agatha Christie Adaptation A Haunting In Venice is an Intriguing Terror Tale But a Forgettable Mystery

The Joy of Positivity pick: Mystery Team (2009)

The Joy of Positivity: Bumblebee (2018)

It's that time again!

The Naming Rights for Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Are Officially Up For Sale

The Joy of Positivity: Billy Joe Shaver's Old Five and Dimers Like Me

The Ladies Man Is, Shockingly, a Less Than Transcendent Cinematic Experience

The Joy of Positivity: The Neighborhood Listen

In The Retirement Plan Nicolas Cage Plays John Wick as an Elderly Parrothead. So Why Does It Suck?

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

This Week in Terrible DVD Covers

The Joy of Positivity: Cheap Trick Live at Budokan: The Complete Concert

The Little Shop of Horrors is Dark Even For a Musical About a Killer Plant and the Depths of Human Misery

The Joy of Positivity: The Wizard of Space and Time (1988)

1994's It's Pat: The Movie is Just Sad

My big piece on the Fast and the Furious movies just dropped on Fatherly!

The Late in the Game Coneheads Movie is WAY Better and Deeper Than Its Reputation Would Suggest

Joy of Positivity pick: Valley Girl (1983)

It's that time again!

Retribution is a Liam Neeson Thriller Like Every Other

The Joy of Positivity: Pop Star Never Stop Never Stopping

The Joy of Positivity: Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters

1998's Blues Brothers 2000 Was the Off-Brand Follow-Up We Neither Needed Nor Wanted

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: True Stories (1986)

Only 5 Joy of Positivity Hardcover Copies of The Joy of Trash Available!

Hey you guys!

The Joy of Positivity: MacGruber (2010)

By its Tenth Installment, the Fast and the Furious Franchise Had Honestly Gotten a Little Tired

The horror, the horror! The Amityville Horror!

Joy of Positivity Pick of the Day The Muppets (2012)

Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is Better Than I Ever Imagined a TMNT Movie Could Be.

Manic Pixie Dream Girls?

What silly quest should I embark on next?

The Joy of Positivity: Batman Returns (1992)

The Audacious Fast 9 Has More to Offer Than Just Homeboyz in Outer Space

It's that time again!

Send Me Back to Prison Where I Belong for the Second Ever Blues Brothers Convention in Old Joliet Prison!

The Joy of Positivity Pick of the Day is Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)

The New Haunted Mansion Reboot is the Very Definition of "Meh"

The Joy of Positivity: Thief (1981)

1985's Dire The Man With One Red Shoe Wastes an Amazing Supporting Cast and a Young Tom Hanks

The Joy of Positivity Pick of the Day is The Master

The Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham Spin-Off Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is Fun, If Way Too Long and Not as Good as Proper Sequels from this Era

Barbie Is Woke and Feminist and a Withering Critique of Bro Culture. That's Why It's Great!

The Joy of Positivity: Hairspray (2007)

The Joy of Positivity: Miami Connection

The Fast and the Curious Chapter Eight: 2019's The Fate of the Furious is a Deliriously Over the Top Delight

Let's try this again

Invite your friends to read Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas

The Joy of Positivity: After Hours (1985)

The Fractured Mirror entry: Best Worst Movie (2009)

The Joy of Positivity: The Ben Stiller Show

Furious 7 is So Beautiful It Reduced Me to Tears

The Joy of Positivity: The Critic

The Fractured Mirror entry: The Last Film Festival (2016)

The Fractured Mirror entry: The American Dreamer (1971)

The Fractured Mirror entry: The Last Movie (1971)

The Fractured Mirror entry: Sexbomb (1989)

The Joy of Positivity: Jason Webber's Purple Bananas

The Fractured Mirror entry: Real Life

The Fractured Mirror: Last Action Hero (1993)

Trading Places is Way More Racist and Way Less Funny Than I Remembered

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: Paul T. Goldman

Oh Shit! They've Got a Tank! Or Fast & Furious 6 is Silly, Fun

I just realized I can waste your time with way more polls!

The Joy of Positivity: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Harrison Ford is Very Old in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in a Wonderfully Mutt Williams-Free Sequel

The Joy of Positivity: Smiley Face (2007)

The Fast and Curious 5: The Fast and the Furious Franchise Curiously Found Itself in its FOURTh Sequel, 2011's Transcendently Silly Fast Five

It's that time again!

Asteroid City is a Goddamned Masterpiece

The Joy of Positivity: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

The Joy of Positivity: The Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)

Big Daddy Dom Returned for 2009's Back to Basics Fast & Furious

The Joy of Positivity: Rock N' Roll High School (1979)

Meanwhile, on my other site...

The Flash Is a Two Hundred Million Dollar "Meh'

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: CQ (2001)

The Fast and the Curious Part 3: 2006's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is INCREDIBLY Dumb and Kind of Fun

The Joy of Positivity: Teen Titan Go! to the Movies

Time for the biggest question

An Unseemly Bit of Self-Promotion

The Joy of Positivity: Mars Attacks! (1996)

Optimus Prime is a Narc and Other Observations, Humorous and Otherwise, on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

The Joy of Positivity: One, Two, Three (1961)

The Joy of Positivity: Attack the Block (2011)

The Fast and the Curious 2: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

Holy Shit is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Ever Great!

The Joy of Positivity: The Phantom of the Paradise

The Joy of Positivity: Darkman (1990)

Introducing The Fast and the Curious, an Epic Journey Through the Entire Fast & Furious Franchise. First up: 2001's The Fast and the Furious

The Joy of Positivity: Quick Change (1990)

It's that time again!

The Joy of Positivity: After Hours (1985)

The Joy of Positivity: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies!

I Need Your Help

The Joy of Positivity: Rock N' Roll High School (1979)

The Robert Rodriguez-Directed Ben Affleck Vehicle Hypnotic is a Gloriously Idiotic Exercise in High-Concept Self-Parody

It's that time again!

Charlie Day's Disappointing Directorial Debut Fool's Paradise is a Twee Assemblage of References and Homages in Search of a Film

The Joy of Positivity: The Last Starfighter (1984)

The Joy of Positivity: the Western Swing of Bob Wills

The Joy of Positivity Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

The Joy of Positivity: Review

It's that time again!

The Blues Brothers Finds Rapturous Joy in the Infectious Despair of Blues and Soul Music

The Joy of Positivity: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

The Joy of Positivity: Matinee (1994)

Renfield Sucks

The Joy of Positivity: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982)

My Epic Trip Through the Films of James Belushi Kicks Off On a High Note with a Loving Look Back at the 1981 Michael Mann Masterpiece Thief

The Joy of Positivity: Best Worst Movie

We Begin Our Journey Through Saturday Night Live Movies with Michael O'Donoghue's Punky 1979 Provocation Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

The Joy of Positivity: Bernie (2011)

It's that time again! What should I watch and review?

The Joy of Positivity: The Three Caballeros (1944)

The Joy of Positivity: Black Dynamite (2009)

The Joy of Positivity: Gary Stewart's Out of Hand

Introducing The Joy of Positivity!

Where I've Been and Where I'm Headed

Ernest in his Entirety: a 14,000 Word Guide to the Ernest P. Worrell Films

In John Wick: Chapter Four Keanu Reeves Kills EVERYBODY. It's Pretty Great!

It's that time again!

Our 9 Part Series on the Ernest Movies Comes to a Melancholy, Oddly Messianic End with 1998's Ernest in the Army

The Charles Manson-as-Evil-God Horror Shocker The Resurrection of Charles Manson Is Quite Possibly the Dumbest Movie Ever Made

It's that time again! What should I see this weekend?

Call it a Comeback! The Joy of Trash is Back and Better, Longer and Trashier Than Ever!

Holy Crap is 1997's Ernest Goes to Africa Offensive, Unfunny

Adam Driver's 65 is a Dino-Bore

Tonight

It's that time again!

State of the Substack address

The Importance of Being Ernest Part 7: Slam Dunk Ernest

The Importance of Being Ernest Part 6: Ernest Goes to School (1994)

The Tragicomic Glory of Pauly Shore in 2023

I Got Crazy High And Enjoyed the Crap Out of Cocaine Bear

Tonight I see Cocaine Bear

The Importance of Being Ernest Part 5: Ernest Rides Again (1993)

I Hated, Hated, Hated Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey

It's that time again!

Seriously Red Compellingly Explores the Strange, Tacky World of Professional Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers Impersonators

Related question

Another big question!

The Importance of Being Ernest: Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)

What movie should I see and review tonight?

80 for Brady Brings Together Four of Our Greatest Icons for Agreeably Mediocre Foolishness

The Importance of Being Ernest Part III: Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)

Knock at the Cabin is a Memorable Apocalyptic Thriller from the Twisted Mind of Frightmaster M. Night Shyamalan

The Importance of Being Ernest Part 2: Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)

With the Trippy New Horror Shocker Infinity Pool, Nepo Baby Brandon Cronenberg Does Right by His Old Man

The Abysmal New Left Behind is an Adaptation of Director-Star Kevin Sorbo's Twitter Feed as Much as It's an Adaptation of a Best-Selling Novel

A Big, Bad Idea for My Next Project Here: All of the Saturday Night Live Movies?

The Importance of Being Ernest Part 1: Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

The big question again

The Overachieving Sequel Missing is a Savvy Combination of Cyber-Thriller and Cinematic True Crime

The Devil Conspiracy is the Jesus DNA Clone Horror Fantasy We've Been Waiting For!

An Evening for All Stars: My Night at the Shrek Rave

Plane is an Eminently Welcome January Surprise

M3GAN Is the Movie for the Moment

The big question!

Plane or House Party?

FYI

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