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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin was born a bicentennial baby in Kansas City, Missouri. During a childhood that could easily be described as “Dickensian,” he spent his formative years in Chicago and came of age in the Jewish Children’s Bureau group home... Read full bio

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Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. If I could change the channel on the TV without actually getting up and doing so manually, that would be almost inconceivably awesome.
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My life in 8 words: "This is my happening and it freaks me out!"
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My Year of Flops is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
My Year of Flops will be released on October 19, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
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Chapter 1 from My Year of Flops
Oct 06, 2010
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The Big Rewind will be released on July 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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The Big Rewind is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Big Rewind is now available in Hardcover
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May 19, 2009

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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. I got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education. Ain't no need in y'all treating me this way Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. Where do I begin? Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. Losing everything Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. At the UN, accepting an award for being the greatest person in human history Q. What is your greatest achievement? A. The Big Rewind, and keeping my two cats out of cat prison despite their many cat crimes Learn more about Nathan Rabin

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Onion AV Club, April 20, 2012
...I found the center of the show so often lacking just suggests how good the show actually is. Nathan Rabin The protagonist of the 2002 romantic comedy Tadpole is a 15-year-old, Voltaire-quoting self-styled intellectual (Aaron Stanford) who proves equally...
Onion AV Club, April 13, 2012
...the mix of cold, industrial noise and overstated emotion, because I like it now. Besides, there’s this: Nathan Rabin When I first saw Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas at a 10:30 a.m. screening at the...
Onion AV Club, April 13, 2012
...the mix of cold, industrial noise and overstated emotion, because I like it now. Besides, there’s this: Nathan Rabin When I first saw Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas at a 10:30 a.m. screening at the...
The Vine, February 1, 2012
...telling some local kids to get off his lawn. Roger, Roger, Roger, you're missing the point entirely. Nathan Rabin from The AV Club revisited the film in 2009 and summed it up well: To the film’s detractors, of which there were many, it must have looked...
Onion AV Club, January 26, 2012
...The Words: This punishingly idiotic melodrama is a maddening contradiction: a film about the publishing world and a great literary fraud that doesn’t have a literary bone in its body or a thought in its pretty, empty little head. It appears to be the...
Onion AV Club, December 30, 2011
...I won’t have to ask Scott embarrassing questions like, “So, this move Drive, what’s that about?” Nathan Rabin Every year, I make a resolution to experience more diverse culture and entertainment. And every year, I fail miserably. I started out in...
Onion AV Club, December 30, 2011
...I won’t have to ask Scott embarrassing questions like, “So, this move Drive, what’s that about?” Nathan Rabin Every year, I make a resolution to experience more diverse culture and entertainment. And every year, I fail miserably. I started out in...
Media Bistro, February 29, 2012
...films of documentary filmmakers? All good questions. Other journalists participating in the sponsored conference include the A/V Club?s Nathan Rabin and New York Times video reporter Jason Spingarn-Koff...
Kansas City Pitch, February 28, 2012
...critic for the Los Angeles Times; Andrea Meditch, executive producer of Man on Wire and Grizzly Man; and Nathan Rabin, head writer for The Onion's A.V. Club and noted coiner of the phrase "manic pixie dream girl." Also on hand, as always, are many of the...
Onion AV Club, February 27, 2012
...well, no one’s selling that BS anymore. At least The Transformers: The Movie eventually led to this: Nathan Rabin Like many members of my generation, I held Ghostbusters in high esteem. How could I not? It was about busting ghosts, it had awesome...
Columbian.com, February 26, 2012
...movies are so bad that they end up in motion picture purgatory while other disasters develop cult followings. Nathan Rabin tackles these questions and more, doing a good job of dispelling some of the mystery surrounding such failures as “The Cable...
Tucson Weekly, February 25, 2012
...with the utterly strange and engrossing John From Cincinnati, which was canceled after its first season, and which Nathan Rabin describes in his terrific re-examination of the show as the world's first "supernatural, metaphysical, spiritual surf...
Yahoo! News, February 24, 2012
...with the "same overly familiar stereotypes filmmakers mined for cheap laughs or timely drama ages ago," says Nathan Rabin at The A.V. Club. Unsightly nudists and hallucinogen-induced meltdowns... how novel. For stronger takes on the same...
The Week Magazine, February 24, 2012
...with the "same overly familiar stereotypes filmmakers mined for cheap laughs or timely drama ages ago," says Nathan Rabin at The A.V. Club. Unsightly nudists and hallucinogen-induced meltdowns... how novel. For stronger takes on the same...