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My Year Of Flops WTF Case File #170: Dune

Need to make sense of an impossibly convoluted science-fiction classic? Get David Lynch!

September 1, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Silent Bob’s Fatal Case Of The Cutes Case File #169: Jersey Girl

Kevin Smith got his soft, gooey center all over this standard-issue redemption story.

August 18, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Hellbound Hellraiser Case File #168: Little Nicky

Adam Sandler plays the son of Satan, and yet he’s loveable. But not loveable enough.

August 4, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Golden Globe-Award-Winning Case File #167: Butterfly

Starring 1982’s New Star Of The Year, the best award that money can buy.

July 21, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Golantastic Case File #166: The Forbidden Dance

Lambada Month concludes with the second of two lambada-themed films that set schlock-merchants Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus against each other.

July 7, 2010 | 12:00am -

My Year Of Flops Forbidden Case File #165: Lambada

It was the dance craze that swept America. Only it didn’t. A month of lambada-movie coverage starts here.

June 23, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Child And Stoner-Friendly Case File #164: Land Of The Lost

The problem with this big-screen rerun? There’s no changing the channel.

June 9, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Honest And Popular Don’t Go Hand-In-Hand Case File #163: The Invention Of Lying

Truth is, it's a brilliant idea with big problems.

May 26, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops From Sundance To The Poorhouse Case File #162: Hamlet 2

It’s the comedy that swept Sundance. And died elsewhere.

May 12, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Career and Beatle-Killing Case File #161: I Know Who Killed Me and Chapter 27

A two-part look at the sad decline of Lindsay Lohan concludes.

April 28, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Lindsay Lohan's Nightmare Descent Case File #160: Labor Pains and Just My Luck

A two-part, four-film retrospective of Lindsay Lohan’s recent lows begins here.

April 14, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Decadent, Depraved Drive-In Double Feature Case File #159: Grindhouse

It was the double feature that nobody could resist. (Except for everybody that resisted it.)

March 31, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Tragically Non-Baked Case File #158: Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny

It's been said before and it'll be said again: Movies about tremendous stoners aren't much fun unless you're tremendously stoned.

March 17, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops What The Holy Living Fuck Case File #157: The Box

Warning: Press the button and you'll still have no idea what's going on.

March 3, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Big Fat Nauseatingly Narcissistic Case File #156: I Hate Valentine’s Day

It’ll take a lot of effort for Nia Vardalos to squander all that My Big Fat Greek Wedding goodwill, but her directorial debut shows she’s up to the challenge.

February 17, 2010 | 12:00pm -
My Year Of Flops Devilishly Alec Baldwintastic Case File #155: Shortcut To Happiness

Alec Baldwin directed a movie once. But he's okay if you never watch it.

February 3, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops It’s Only The Size Of Your Heart That Counts Case File #154: Tiptoes

It's the movie that taught us little people are just like everybody else—by hiring Gary Oldman to play one.

January 20, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops The Unseen Case File #153: The Brave (1997)

Johnny Depp directed a movie. You almost certainly haven't seen it.

January 6, 2010 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Commemorative Keepsake Yuletide Case File #152: Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage

The Painter Of Light™ gets a cinematic brand extension.

December 23, 2009 | 12:00pm -
My Year Of Flops Ronald McDonald Approved Case File #151: Mac And Me

In which it is proved that McDonald's brings people of all cultures together, and Coke raises people and aliens alike from the dead.

December 9, 2009 | 12:00pm -
My Year Of Flops Contest-Winning Case File #150: From Justin To Kelly

How can you win American Idol and still lose?

November 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Polanski-tastic Sick-Fuck Case File #149: What?

Yes, he made Chinatown. He also made this insane, misogynistic crazy-fest.

October 28, 2009 | 12:13pm -
My Year Of Flops Undomesticated Case File #148: Human Nature

Michel Gondry + Spike Jonze + Charlie Kaufman = instant cult hit, right? Apparently not in this case.

October 14, 2009 | 11:22am -
My Year Of Flops Totally Jerking Case File #147: Josie And The Pussycats

That silly-looking comic-book adaptation? It's actually a sharp satire.

September 30, 2009 | 12:00pm -
My Year Of Flops Ribald Retro Case File #146: Down With Love

This period pastiche recreated the ’60s wonderland of Rock Hudson and Doris Day movies, but audiences couldn't figure out why.

September 16, 2009 | 12:39pm -
My Year Of Flops Terminally Unlucky Case File #145: The Number 23

September 2, 2009 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Chick In A Box Case File #144: Boxing Helena

Why do fools fall in love (then amputate their lovers' limbs and keep them in a box)?

August 19, 2009 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Nicolas Cagetastic Case File #143: Zandalee

Nicolas Cage goes full-tilt in this theoretically erotic drama set in New Orleans.

August 5, 2009 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Colorblind And Comically Convoluted Case File #142: Color Of Night

Sometimes even a horny teenager gets enough nudity. And sometimes even nudity can't save a film.

July 22, 2009 | 12:00am -
My Year Of Flops Space Oddity Case File #141: Solaris

Amid many Steven Soderberg experiments came this quiet, internal $50 million science-fiction film about a grieving widower. Gosh, why didn't it make money?

July 8, 2009 | 12:00pm -