My Year Of Flops

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  My Year Of Flops Finding His Forte Case File 199: The Brothers Solomon/MacGruber

  Examining the puzzlingly unpopular film career of Saturday Night Live alum Will Forte. 

  October 12, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Miraculous Case File #198: Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star 

  Adam Sandler co-wrote and produced what was to be a star-making vehicle for Nick Swardson. It wasn’t.

  September 28, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Furtively Feminist, Mostly Misunderstood Case File #197: Sucker Punch 

  Is Zack Snyder's vision just another leering, fanboy fantasy or a self-aware critique of the same? 

  September 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Beyond Redemption Case File #196: The Beaver  

  It’ll take more than a beaver puppet to save Mel Gibson 

  August 31, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Keeping It Faux-Real Case File #195: Ali G Indahouse 

  A brilliant comic creation travels way outside his comfort zone in Sacha Baron Cohen’s first feature film. 

  August 17, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Exposing the Menace of Sugar Ray Case File Case File #194: Fathers’ Day  

  Comic titans clash, dully, in a comedy about accidental parenthood. 

  August 3, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops On the Gilded Wings of Pretension Case File #193: Passion Play 

  A long-in-the-works labor of love starring Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, and a be-winged Megan Fox turns out to have not been worth the effort.

  July 20, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Yankee Doodle Dandy Case File #192: 1776 

  The action is negligible and the dancing ridiculous, but this musical about the Declaration Of Independence proves unexpectedly stirring.

  July 6, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops In The Mood For Lovesickness Case File #191: My Blueberry Nights 

  Few noticed when one of the most acclaimed directors in the world made his debut with a wafer-light romance. Should they have paid more attention?

  June 22, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Fame, Ain’t It A Bitch Case File #190: I’m Still Here

  Joaquin Phoenix melts down in an unsparing documentary. Well, sort of.

  June 8, 2011 | 1:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Forever Losing Case File #189: Good Advice 

  Charlie Sheen doesn’t necessarily limit his craziness to real life.

  May 25, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Sad Sack Case File #188: The Wrong Guy

  The first of many dead ends in the career of Dave Foley.

  May 11, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops The Movie Industry Is Brutalizin’ Me Case File #187: Run, Ronnie, Run 

  Mr. Show had a brilliant four-season run as a sketch comedy show. It probably should have stopped there.

  April 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Heaven-Bound Heartwarming Case File #186: Project Greenlight Presents Stolen Summer

  A reality series set out to make an aspiring filmmaker’s dreams come true. It sort of succeeded.

  April 13, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Clueless Case File #185: The Stupids

  A John Landis comedy tests the nation's love of Tom Arnold.

  March 30, 2011 | 12:05pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Written Entirely In 3D Case File #184: Drive Angry 3D

  Nicolas Cage crawls out of hell in a 3D explosaganza that nobody wanted to see.

  March 16, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops You Know, For Kids! Case File #183: The Hudsucker Proxy

  The Coens go screwball. Nobody was impressed at the time, but maybe they should have been.

  March 2, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Sad Goodbye Case File #182: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

  Not everyone can go out on top.

  February 16, 2011 | 12:11pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Oscar-Winner-Laden Pre-Precious Preposterousness Case File #181: Shadowboxer 

  Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren play assassins in the first film from the director of Precious. But that isn’t the weird part.

  February 2, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Martyrdom or Bust Case File #180: Your Cheatin’ Heart

  The life of Hank Williams: sanitized for your protection.

  January 19, 2011 | 12:25pm -

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  My Year Of Flops They’re All Going To Laugh At You, God Willing Case File #179: Carny

  It isn’t all clown makeup and good times at the carnival.

  January 5, 2011 | 12:45pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Spectacularly Silly Case File #178: The Man Who Knew Too Little

  Bill Murray holds the fate of the world in his hands. But don’t worry too much.

  December 22, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Let’s All Cringe at the Death of a Clown Case File #177: Larger Than Life

  Bill Murray hits the road with an elephant. And yet, for some reason, nobody wanted to watch.

  December 8, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Before The Revolution Case File #176: Mickey One

  It’s the Warren Beatty/Arthur Penn collaboration that didn’t usher in a new era for Hollywood. (But should it have?)

  November 24, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Going Boldly Where No Ladykiller Has Gone Before Case File #175: Pretty Maids All In A Row

  When the 1960s and the 1950s come into conflict, pretty young co-eds sleep around, then die.

  November 10, 2010 | 12:01am -

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  My Year Of Flops Spooktastic Case File #174: “Michael Jackson’s Ghosts”

  Michael Jackson made an ambitious music video that paid homage to classic horror films. No, not that one.

  October 27, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Further life lessons gleaned from My Year Of Flops (which is now available in book form)

  The author of My Year Of Flops shares some more things he’s learned along the way.

  October 19, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Vonnegutted Case File #173: Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

  Kurt Vonnegut gets mistreated. Also, some information about the My Year Of Flops book.

  October 13, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Celluloid Closeted Case File #172: Mr. Wrong 

  Nobody would have been a good fit in this confused romantic comedy.

  September 29, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Eddie Murphy’s Sleepy Years Case File #171: The Adventures Of Pluto Nash

  Eddie Murphy in space! Yeah, he seems pretty bored with the idea too.

  September 15, 2010 | 12:00am -