Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover revisits Darren Stein’s underappreciated 1999 flop Jawbreaker, which he argues was a far more representative teen film experience than its more successful peers and successors. […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Constantine
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover makes the case that Constantine is the best film DC has made this century, regardless of how hard they now try to pretend […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Charlie Bartlett
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Christopher M. Jones looks back at 2007’s Charlie Bartlett, which starred Anton Yelchin and Robert Downey Jr but was a critical and commercial failure. […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Megan is Missing
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Christopher M. Jones looks back at the 2011 found footage horror film Megan is Missing, which was widely panned and failed to make much […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Fountains of Wayne’s Welcome Interstate Managers
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This week, Johnson Hagood makes the case for the critical reexamination of Fountains of Wayne, one of the few power pop bands who managed to […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Feast
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. In honor of Project Greenlight’s return to the airwaves after a decade long hiatus, Nick Hanover looks back at the film that emerged from the show’s […]
Pop Rehabilitation: The Vapors
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Nick Hanover attempts to revive interest in The Vapors, an ’80s New Wave outfit known for their hit “Turning Japanese” and endless jokes […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Amanda Blank’s I Love You
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. This month, Nick Hanover wonders whatever happened to Amanda Blank, and why her shouldabeen breakout album I Love You didn’t click with audiences but now fans […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Hermann’s Jeremiah
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Up first is the post-apocalyptic European epic Jeremiah, which is in desperate need of rehabilitation after its chief exposure to American audiences came via a crap […]