Nathan Rabin

There Are Only 25 More Days Til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, So the Spooky Season Pick of the Day is the 1982 Cult Classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch Silver Shamrock!

There Are Only 25 More Days Til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, So the Spooky Season Pick of the Day is the 1982 Cult Classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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I know Taylor Swift is proud of her fiancé, but including a dirge-like 40-minute-long cover of "Super Bowl Shuffle" in her new album was a mistake.

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"Everything I hate is Communist" has been supplanted by "Everything I hate is Woke" and finally "Everything that I hate is a terrorist organization at war with our country and its values."

There Are Only 25 More Days Til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, So the Spooky Season Pick of the Day is the 1982 Cult Classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch Silver Shamrock!

There Are Only 25 More Days Til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, So the Spooky Season Pick of the Day is the 1982 Cult Classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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If you like quirky, adventurous horror movies, I highly recommend Good Boy. It is a unique, powerful, and incredibly resourceful independent film. It's been a great year for horror movies, and this is another triumph, albeit on a modest scale.

I am, indeed, being facetious.

The Audacious and Original Good Boy is the Greatest Live-Action Horror Movie Starring an Amateur Dog Ever Made Indy is a good boy and this is a good movie

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Apparently, Trump is so enraged that Bad Bunny is doing the Super Bowl halftime show that he plans to invade Puerto Rico and turn it into an American territory.

The Official Release Party of a Showgirl Exposes Taylor Swift's Dark Secret: She's Actually Incredibly Boring Why do I do this to myself?

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The spooky season Joy of Positivity pick of the day is the shockingly sensitive and nuanced Chucky, a wildly overachieving TV adaptation of the Child's Play movies. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

The Official Release Party of a Showgirl Exposes Taylor Swift's Dark Secret: She's Actually Incredibly Boring Why do I do this to myself?

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Rumor has it that if the Democrats don't give in, the Republicans are prepared to launch a hellstorm of racist AI-generated memes, some of which apparently involve Chuck Schumer breakdancing.

David Gordon Green's 2018 Legacy Sequel Halloween Is a Mesmerizing Return to Form — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents... My leisurely ramble though the Halloween movies continues with a look back at David Gordon Green’s 2018 smash Halloween, the best Halloween movie since Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

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Got Trump Derangement Syndrome? I Can Help! — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat I’ve found a novel way to deal with my Trump-

The world needs someone who will listen patiently while people complain bitterly about Trump and our horrific descent into fascism, so that they don't have to bum out their family, friends, or coworkers. I want to be that person.

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The spooky season Joy of Positivity pick of the day is the shockingly sensitive and nuanced Chucky, a wildly overachieving TV adaptation of the Child's Play movies. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

Got Trump Derangement Syndrome? I Can Help! — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat I’ve found a novel way to deal with my Trump-

The world needs someone who will listen patiently while people complain bitterly about Trump and our horrific descent into fascism, so that they don't have to bum out their family, friends, or coworkers. I want to be that person.

www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

I'm starting to wonder if Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of JD Vance as a lovable underdog and the soul of the working class might have been dishonest and ultimately destructive. Hopefully, Ron Howard's next biopic, STEPHEN MILLER: A PRETTY CHILL GUY, will be more accurate.

David Gordon Green's 2018 Legacy Sequel Halloween Is a Mesmerizing Return to Form — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents... My leisurely ramble though the Halloween movies continues with a look back at David Gordon Green’s 2018 smash Halloween, the best Halloween movie since Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

As an Autistic Father of Autistic Boys, I Am Pleased That Donald Trump and RFK Jr. Discovered the Cause AND Cure for Autism! — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someon... I was skeptical when noted medical geniuses Donald Trump and RFK Jr. said they’d find the cause and cure for autism but I will be the first to concede they succeeded!

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The Joy of Positivity Pick of the Day is the 1966 Special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown With the possible exception of 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1966’s It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the most brilliantly melancholy kids’ holiday special of all time.

It's the first day of the spookiest month of the year, so the Joy of Positivity pick at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is the 1966 masterpiece It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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A good indication that someone is gay but not ready to acknowledge their sexuality publicly is that they force hordes of rigid men to gather in front of them so that they can lecture them about the "warrior ethos."

Paul Thomas Anderson's riveting Thomas Pynchon adaptation, One Battle After Another, is a movie for the moment and a movie for all time.

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I have no doubt that Pete Hegseth's "No fatties, no sissies, and if I don't like you, you're fired" speech will go down in the annals of great military addresses.

In Pete Hegseth's military, you can get fired for pointing out racism but not for being egregiously racist. That shit gets you promoted.

As an Autistic Father of Autistic Boys, I Am Pleased That Donald Trump and RFK Jr. Discovered the Cause AND Cure for Autism! — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someon... I was skeptical when noted medical geniuses Donald Trump and RFK Jr. said they’d find the cause and cure for autism but I will be the first to concede they succeeded!

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Every week, I give the paid subscribers to my Substack, Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas, the opportunity to choose what new movie(s) I write up each weekend. This weekend it's The Smashing Machine vs. the Taylor Swift Official Album Party. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/its-that-t...

Kathy Bates is a Monster for the Ages in Rob Reiner's Classic 1990 Adaptation of Stephen King's Misery A writer has the misfortune to meet his number one fan in the movie that made Kathy Bates a star.

My journey through the films of Stephen King continues with a reverent look back at Rob Reiner's beloved 1990 adaptation of Misery, featuring Kathy Bates' star-making, Oscar-winning turn as the worst kind of superfan. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/kathy-bate...

The Joy of Positivity pick of the day at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is the Lean, Mean Netflix Thriller Carry-On It's Jason Bateman as you've never seen him before!

The Joy of Positivity pick of the day at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is the lean, mean 2024 thriller Carry-On, with a terrific villain turn from Teen Wolf Too star Jason Bateman. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

Paul Thomas Anderson's riveting Thomas Pynchon adaptation, One Battle After Another, is a movie for the moment and a movie for all time.

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