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Pop Rehabilitation: Jawbreaker

August 31, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Carol Kane, Darren Stein, Film, Jawbreaker, Judy Greer, melodrama, Pam Grier, Pop Rehabilitation, Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowan

Pop Rehabilitation: Constantine

June 12, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Constantine, DC Comics, Film, Francis Lawrence, Keanu Reeves, Peter Stormare, Pop Rehabilitation, Rachel Weisz, Shia Labeouf, Vertigo comics

Pop Rehabilitation: Charlie Bartlett

July 5, 2016 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Charlie Bartlett Anton Yelchin

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. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Anton Yelchin, Charlie Bartlett, Film, Pop Rehabilitation, Robert Downey Jr

Pop Rehabilitation: Megan is Missing

April 13, 2016 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Creepypasta, Film, horror, Megan is Missing, Pop Rehabilitation

Pop Rehabilitation: Fountains of Wayne’s Welcome Interstate Managers

September 29, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Fountains of Wayne

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Fountains of Wayne, Music, Pop Rehabilitation, power pop

Pop Rehabilitation: Feast

September 14, 2015 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Feast movie

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Feast, Film, horror, Judah Friedlander, Pop Rehabilitation, Project Greenlight, sci-fi

Pop Rehabilitation: The Vapors

April 22, 2015 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Music, New Wave, Pop Rehabilitation, The Vapors

Pop Rehabilitation: Amanda Blank’s I Love You

February 3, 2015 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Amanda Blank, hip-hop, Music, Pop Rehabilitation, Spank Rock

Pop Rehabilitation: Hermann’s Jeremiah

November 4, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

Jeremiah Hermann

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Hermann, Jeremiah, Pop Rehabilitation

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