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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a fantastic movie that really holds up, except the part where Dr. Jones is a cradle-robbing defiler of teens.

I had an unique cinematic experience that was straight up magical.

Seriously, though.

I used to think Obama did a pretty good job, but now that I see how little he cared about pool maintenance, ballroom construction, women smiling and publicly taking dementia tests, AKA the four pillars of the presidency, I lost ALL respect for him and the Democratic Party. 

Tim Burton’s 2003 fantasy film Big Fish had a profound effect on me, but it had a REALLY intense reaction for the late, beloved monologuist and actor Spalding Gray.

The Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place 30 Day Film Challenge isn’t the first of its kind, but it is the best.

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.

2025’s Snow White failed for a fuck-ton of reasons, most wholly unrelated to star Rachel Zegler’s political beliefs or public statements.

Charles Grodin Month continues with a look at the 1988 dark comedy The Couch Trip, which is just like Loqueesha only not racist, sexist and terrible.

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder

One of you kind souls paid me to re-watch and write about 2005’s Domino, screenwriter Richard Kelly and director Tony Scott’s deranged pop-art take on the life of renegade bounty hunter Domino Harvey.

Reagan, the long-delayed biography of the Bedtime for Bonzo star, ridiculously posits its subject as a devout Christian first, uniquely gifted leader second and cheesy-ass B-movie star a distant third.

Bad reviews, terrible buzz and an impressively idiotic premise sunk Universal’s 2012 science fiction board game adaptation mega-flop Battleship.

The Police Academy went to Moscow. It did not go well.

This fucking movie!

John Travolta becomes the smartest man in the world, then uses his incredible powers to woo a pretty single mother and help his buddy grow larger vegetables in 1996’s Phenomenon, a well-worn denim jacket of a movie.

John Travolta and an Oscar-nominated Robert Duvall lead a remarkable ensemble cast in hotshot screenwriter turned director Steven Zaillian’s overachieving 1999 legal drama A Civil Action, a sleeper which is infinitely more entertaining and rich than its dry title and half-forgotten reputation would suggest

Nicolas Cage’s run of cheesily fun Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action extravaganzas continues with the wildly entertaining 2000 gear-head blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds.

Hoo boy. This movie is BAD.

In 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

As part of the Kickstarter campaign for Five Nights at Freddy Got Fingered, one of you kind souls paid me to see 1988’s Alien From L.A., the low-budget, Cannon-produced vehicle that failed to make Kathy Ireland a movie star. Or even a halfway competent actress!

One of you generous sadists paid me a hundred bucks to watch a silly slice of Reagan-era sexual anxiety distinguished by charming performances from Andrew “Dice” Clay and Victoria Jackson. Really.

Fateful Findings auteur Neil Breen returns as a jerky, genocidal Jesus out to kill three hundred million bad people for good reasons in a movie that, to be honest, is pretty fucked up. YOU requested and paid for it so YOU've got it! 

One of you kind souls paid me to re-watch and write about 2005’s Domino, screenwriter Richard Kelly and director Tony Scott’s deranged pop-art take on the life of renegade bounty hunter Domino Harvey.

For my monthly Shudder pick, I chose Who Invited Them, a psychological thriller about a housewarming party and some very sinister party crashers.

In a shocking turn of events, Henry Jaglom made a bad, self-indulgent motion picture.

It may be hard to believe, but John Cusack once starred in good movies like the 1997 cult classic romantic-action-dark-comedy Grosse Pointe Blank instead of direct-to-video schlock where he wears a black hat, holds a gun, and is poorly photoshopped on the DVD cover alongside other paycheck-hungry familiar faces.