My Year Of Flops

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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 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 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 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 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 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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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops: Rejected Reject #2 Continental Divide

  John Belushi=Romantic Leading Man? It happened, in Continental Divide, the romantic comedy that failed to transform the troubled comic icon into the new Spencer Tracy

  September 22, 2008 | 5:06pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops Totally Tween Case File #118: Bratz: The Movie

  Some popular/skanky dolls fail to become movie stars.

  September 17, 2008 | 2:21pm -

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  My Year Of Flops Focus-Group-Approved Case File #117: Mad Dog And Glory

  Robert De Niro squares off against Bill Murray in a largely forgotten 1993 film.

  September 3, 2008 | 12:54pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops, #116 Case Files And A Mule Edition: Bamboozled

  Spike Lee didn't like television so he made this movie.

  August 20, 2008 | 1:46pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops, That Case File's Crazy Edition #115: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

  Perhaps tired of phoning it in, Richard Pryor got ambitious with this non-autobiogarphical autobiography.

  August 6, 2008 | 12:20pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops, Extra-Piratey Case File #114: Cutthroat Island

  The box-office disaster so bad that it even hurt the careers of innocent bystanders.

  July 23, 2008 | 1:13pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops: Rejected Reject #1 Getting Away With Murder

  A new feature explores movies not quite interesting enough for My Year Of Flops, beginning with the little-loved 1996 Dan Aykroyd/Jack Lemmon/Lily Tomlin Nazi War Criminal comedy Getting Away With Murder. Complete with clip of Stephen Colbert rapping (no, not really)

  July 21, 2008 | 5:09pm -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops Case File #113, Ask The A.V. Club Crossover Edition: Yellowbeard

  Revisiting a chuckle-deficient pirate comedy.

  July 9, 2008 | 11:26am -

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  My Year Of Flops My Year Of Flops, The Bonus Tracks Case File # 112: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  The laughs were there. Only the audience didn't show up.

  June 24, 2008 | 11:03pm -