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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  My Year Of Flops Terminally Unlucky Case File #145: The Number 23

  September 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  My Year Of Flops All Real, All Uncut Case File #140: EDtv

   

  June 24, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  My Year Of Flops Pixelated Case File #139: Super Mario Bros. 

  No power up here.

  June 10, 2009 | 12:08pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Death-Defying Case File #138: Hot Rod

  Viral video success may not translate into movie stardom, but maybe it should.

  May 27, 2009 | 3:15pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Dominant-paradigm-subverting Hippified Case File #137: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

  Some required reading for college bohemians makes a difficult transition to the screen.

  May 13, 2009 | 2:12pm -

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  My Year Of Flops When Dr. Egon Met Lloyd Dobler Case File #136: The Ice Harvest 

  Harold Ramis has a habit of making audience-pleasing comedies. But not this one.

  April 29, 2009 | 3:23pm -

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  My Year Of Flops North Of The Border Case File #135: Canadian Bacon   

  Now with 100 percent more wildly digressive Erik Estrada anecdotes!

  April 15, 2009 | 5:30pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Happy Happy, Joy Joy Case File #134: Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy

  It almost destroyed The Kids In The Hall. But was it worth it?

  April 1, 2009 | 3:53pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Norm MacDonald’s Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work

  Revisiting the golden age of Norm MacDonald.  

  March 18, 2009 | 3:30pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Kicking A Man While He’s Down Case File #132: The Love Guru

  Mike Myers spent years working on this. Why?

  March 4, 2009 | 12:30pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Mostly Singing, Partially Dancing Case-File-And-A-Half #131: Romance & Cigarettes + Theodore Rex 

  When a man looks at a woman, he sees a jelly donut. When he looks at this film, he can love bad movies again.

  February 18, 2009 | 6:00pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Earth-friendly case file #130: On Deadly Ground

  What does it take… what does it take to change the essence of a man?

  February 4, 2009 | 12:35pm -

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  My Year Of Flops No Blood For Oil Stridently Political Case File #129: War, Inc.

  A big-name cast and an audacious premise didn't prevent this late-to-the-game Iraq War satire from going down in flames.

  January 21, 2009 | 12:52pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year of Flops Redundancy Case Files #127 and #128: The Big Bounce and The Big Bounce

  A book so nice it got turned into flop movies twice.

  January 7, 2009 | 3:14pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Floppiest Flop Case File # 126 Delgo

  What happens when a labor of love becomes a national punchline?

  December 23, 2008 | 10:10pm -

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  My Year Of Flops It's a Bird, It's A Plane, It's A Franchise-Killing Case File # 125: Superman IV: Quest For Peace

  Things beside Kryptonite that can destroy Superman: Radioactive fingernails, low-budget sequels.

  December 10, 2008 | 4:16pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Streep-Vs.-Barr girl-fight Case File #124: She-Devil

  How come Roseanne never became a movie star? Oh yeah.

  November 26, 2008 | 2:46pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Shazamilicious Double Feature: Case Files #120 and 123, The Phantom and The Shadow

  One had powers. The other had tights. What went wrong?

  November 12, 2008 | 3:05pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Disgustingly Patriotic Case File #122 The Rocketeer

  Hooray for failed superhero franchises! Also: America!

  October 29, 2008 | 3:29pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Totally Bitchin' Case File #121: Earth Girls Are Easy

  Everybody's a sex symbol in this agreeable piece of fluff. Okay, except Jim Carrey.

  October 15, 2008 | 2:15pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Sweded Out Case File #119: Be Kind Rewind

  Michel Gondry pays the price for being an analog man in a digital world.

  October 1, 2008 | 12:58pm -

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