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Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment guide of The Onion. He is also the author of a memoir, The Big Rewind, and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently collaborated with pop parodist Weird Al Yankovic on a coffee-table book mostrar más called Weird Al: The Book. Rabin's writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve, and Modern Humorist. He lives in Chicago with his wife and has learned to love both Faygo and extended guitar Solos. mostrar menos

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1976-04-24
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ocupaciones
film critic
Organizaciones
The Onion

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It's a coffee table book about Weird Al ... I'm not sure what else you're expecting? I will admit to hoping for a slightly more critical/in-depth look at his life and career, but it's got some neat art/pictures, and a wide-ranging look at Al's life from the beginning of his career through Alpocalypse.
 
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kaitwallas | 4 reseñas más. | May 21, 2021 |
This book is something that I would consider a seminal work of film criticism, and in its own way shows how the internet and home video have changed film and film criticism.

Because of the internet, and the ability to take films home with us, the obscure films, the flops and the bombs have a chance to get legs, find their audiences later on, and get the fan base and success that they have so richly deserved, as with Joe Vs. The Volcano & The Rocketeer. Alternately, they preserve failure and the bizarre cinematic decisions that lead to those failures for all time, as is the case with films like Mame and Pennies from Heaven.

Honestly, if you want consider yourself a big fan of film, I'd definitely consider this book worth reading.
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Count_Zero | 2 reseñas más. | Jul 7, 2020 |
It's a coffee table book about Weird Al ... I'm not sure what else you're expecting? I will admit to hoping for a slightly more critical/in-depth look at his life and career, but it's got some neat art/pictures, and a wide-ranging look at Al's life from the beginning of his career through Alpocalypse.
 
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thoughtbox | 4 reseñas más. | May 27, 2016 |
A passably entertaining compilation of Rabin's AV Club column revisiting and reviewing major movie flops, from the big names (Waterworld, Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate) to the obscure (Skidoo, OC and Stiggs etc). Rabin is a pithy, funny writer, but (betraying its weekly column origins) this is very much a book you dip in and out of rather than one that you should read in one hit.
 
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mjlivi | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 2, 2016 |

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