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Nathan Rabin

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I've been writing about pop culture for 28 years, primarily as the head entertainment writer for The A.V. Club and staff writer for The Dissolve. My Substack is Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas, and my main site is Nathan Rabin's Happy Place. Author, autistic

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The Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror is Ben Hecht's 1952 satire Actors and Sin.
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24.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Joy of Positivity pick of the day at Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas is the agreeably bonkers 1998 Tsui Hark-directed JCVD vehicle Knock Off.
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24.11.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To promote my new book, The Fractured Mirror, I'm running a list of the 100 worst movies about filmmaking, including a Tyler Perry spoof more inept than its target, a cartoon pairing Barbie and Harvey Weinstein, an unwatchable Walt Disney biopic & much more! nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-100-wo...

24.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I Am Proud to Announce the Release of My New Book, The Fractured Mirror, and a F****** Golden Deal That's ALMOST Too Good to Be True I'll make you such a deal!

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23.11.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fractured Mirror shard of the day is 1955's surprisingly not-terrible ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS.
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23.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sisu: Road to Revenge is a Very Strange Prequel to The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou but a Kick-Ass Pure Action Movie If you enjoy movies that fucking rock, you will have a blast with this testosterone-fueled bloodbath

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21.11.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICYMI: On Wednesday, I officially released The Fractured Mirror, a 548-page encyclopedia of American movies about filmmaking with a foreword by the great Joe Dante and illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro that's like a Leonard Maltin guide with more profanity and jokes. www.nathanrabin.com/shop

21.11.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My 9th book, The Fractured Mirror, a 548-page exploration of American movies about filmmaking with a foreword by Joe Dante and illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro, comes out today. To promote it, I am offering what can only be deemed a F****** Golden Deal.

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19.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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ICYMI: I had a big week. On Wednesday, The Fractured Mirror, a massive encyclopedia of American movies about filmmaking that I have been working on for 3 years, came out. I marked the occasion with a list of the 20 juiciest documentaries on the subject: nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-twenty...

21.11.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Edgar Wright's Delightful Scott Pilgrim vs. the World From a commercial standpoint, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs.

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21.11.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To promote my new book about American movies about filmmaking, The Fractured Mirror, I'm running a ten-part series on the 100 greatest movies on the subject. We kick off with entries 90-100. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

21.11.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICYMI: On Wednesday, I officially released The Fractured Mirror, a 548-page encyclopedia of American movies about filmmaking with a foreword by the great Joe Dante and illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro that's like a Leonard Maltin guide with more profanity and jokes. www.nathanrabin.com/shop

21.11.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope that we, as a culture, are able to survive someone performing songs in a language other than English for roughly fifteen minutes during an important football game. It will be an incredible test of democracy. Hopefully we're up to it.

21.11.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to say that Donald Trump is weak-willed and suggestible, but as of now, he's apparently Muslim and a Socialist Democrat. I guess that meeting with Mamdani really affected him.

21.11.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICYMI: I had a big week. On Wednesday, The Fractured Mirror, a massive encyclopedia of American movies about filmmaking that I have been working on for 3 years, came out. I marked the occasion with a list of the 20 juiciest documentaries on the subject: nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-twenty...

21.11.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm running a different entry from The Fractured Mirror, my epic new book on movies about movies, every day. We start, alphabetically, with the very first film, 1945's Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. It, astonishingly, gets both more and less obscure from there. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

21.11.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To promote my new book about American movies about filmmaking, The Fractured Mirror, I'm running a ten-part series on the 100 greatest movies on the subject. We kick off with entries 90-100. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

21.11.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Edgar Wright's Delightful Scott Pilgrim vs. the World From a commercial standpoint, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs.

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21.11.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sisu: Road to Revenge is a Very Strange Prequel to The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou but a Kick-Ass Pure Action Movie If you enjoy movies that fucking rock, you will have a blast with this testosterone-fueled bloodbath

nathanrabin.substack.com/p/sisu-road-...

21.11.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Forced Smiles, Sadism, and Psychodrama of Singin' in the Rain β€” Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Behind the forced smiles of Singin’ in the Rain lie a lot of pain, anger and angst thanks to Co-director and star Gene Kelly’s bullying ways and abusive treatment of the cast and crew.

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20.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are only a few days left in Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas Freaking Golden Deal: sign up for a yearlong membership for 50 dollars and get signed copies of my massive new book, The Fractured Mirror, and my "Weird Al" coloring book free, a 50-dollar value for nuthin'! nathanrabin.substack.com

21.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All pop stars make albums about Travis Kelce's enormous penis. That was the subject of most of Exile on Main Street, but due to sexism, only Taylor Swift is criticized for it.

21.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To promote my new book, The Fractured Mirror, I'm running a 10-part list of the 100 worst American movies about filmmaking. We begin today with 90-100. I saw all of these stinkers so that nobody else has to. You're welcome! substack.com/home/post/p-...

20.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Twenty Juiciest Behind the Scenes Documentaries About Filmmaking There are a lot of documentaries about filmmaking. These are objectively the juiciest and best.

To promote The Fractured Mirror, my massive book about movies about movies with a foreword by Joe Dante and illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro, which comes out TODAY, I'm running this list of the 20 juiciest documentaries about filmmaking: nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-twenty...

19.11.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are only a few days left in Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas Freaking Golden Deal: sign up for a yearlong membership for 50 dollars and get signed copies of my massive new book, The Fractured Mirror, and my "Weird Al" coloring book free, a 50-dollar value for nuthin'! nathanrabin.substack.com

21.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New Nathan Rabin book (that’s about movies that are about movies), just in time for the holidays. I’ve been looking forward to this one!

20.11.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen two DIFFERENT terrible movie-themed movies called Final Draft. That likewise is not something to be proud of.

21.11.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Forced Smiles, Sadism, and Psychodrama of Singin' in the Rain β€” Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Behind the forced smiles of Singin’ in the Rain lie a lot of pain, anger and angst thanks to Co-director and star Gene Kelly’s bullying ways and abusive treatment of the cast and crew.

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

20.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To promote my new book, The Fractured Mirror, I'm running a 10-part list of the 100 worst American movies about filmmaking. We begin today with 90-100. I saw all of these stinkers so that nobody else has to. You're welcome! substack.com/home/post/p-...

20.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing the Release of My New Book, The Fractured Mirror, and the F****** Golden Deal β€” Nathan Rabin's Happy Place It took three long years, but today I’m officially releasing The Fractured Mirror, my epic, 548 page book on the history of American movies about film, and introducing the F****** Golden Deal

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20.11.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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