Nathan Rabin

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Trump is all about controlling the narrative. He doesn’t want the public to view Biden as an amiable old man who dedicated his life to public service and helped the country recover from the COVID-19 crisis. He wants people to see Biden the way that he sees him, as an evil, insane, senile fool who can barely stand up or form a coherent sentence, yet is somehow also personally responsible for everything terrible in the world.

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I vaguely remember watching The Raid 2 at Sundance in the long-ago days when people paid me to write about movies and attend film festivals.

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In The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book about American movies about the film industry, I write about several weird little niches/sub-sub-genres. One of them is Location Horror, a surprisingly voluminous series of fright flicks about films made on sets that seem spooky because they are genuinely haunted. This overlaps with another sub-genre about tortured screenwriters who lock themselves in a seemingly haunted abode in a misguided attempt at verisimilitude.

1 week ago | nathanrabin.com | Nathan Rabin

Yet in the conflict between a vulnerable minority group whose already difficult lives grow more difficult by the day thanks to people like Donald Trump and J.K. Rowling, Lithgow’s thoughts and concerns were not with trans kids or teens but rather with the world’s richest transphobe. Lithgow pondered airily, “I wonder how JK Rowling has absorbed it. I suppose at a certain point I’ll meet her, and I’m curious to talk to her.”The Blow Out star seems to see Rowling as the real victim.