My Year of Flops explained

My Year of Flops (subtitled The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure) is a 2010 book by film critic Nathan Rabin based on his columns on the website The A.V. Club.[1]

Background

Starting in 2007, Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at critical and commercial cinematic failures at a weekly basis.[2]

Criteria

Rabin's critique for each film fall into three categories: Failure, Fiasco, and Secret Success.[3]

List of films discussed in the book (in order of appearance)

[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Aftermath

In 2011, Rabin expanded the scope of the My Year of Flops column into a successor feature, My World of Flops, to include TV shows, books, and musical albums. He began with Aaron Sorkin's 2006 TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and ended with the 2016 comedy film The Brothers Grimsby before opening his own personal site called "Nathan Rabin's Happy Place".[11] [12] [13]

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/av-clubs-flops_b_769772 "AV Club's 'My Year of Flops': 15 Notorious Cinematic Failures Worth Revisiting"
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=HABU9kJmpe0C Google Books
  3. Rabin, Nathan "Book Review - My Year of Flops". The New York Times.
  4. Web site: Manic pixie dream girl" is now in Oxford Dictionaries . AV Club.
  5. https://www.npr.org/2010/10/19/130669942/my-year-of-flops-a-very-good-book-about-some-very-bad-movies 'My Year Of Flops': A Very Good Book About Some Very Bad Movies : NPR
  6. Web site: Nonfiction Book Review: My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure . Publishers Weekly.
  7. https://www.popmatters.com/131883-my-year-of-flops-by-nathan-rabin-2496129104.html 'My Year of Flops' Teases Out What's Great About Even the Worst Movies - PopMatters
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=HABU9kJmpe0C Google Books
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20110416162803/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/books/review/Zacharek-t.html From Bomb To Bust
  10. https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/heavens-gate-and-the-film-maudit/ "Heaven's Gate" and Film Maudit Culture - Film at Lincoln Center
  11. https://tv.avclub.com/case-file-1-studio-60-on-the-sunset-strip-1798228131 Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip|AV Club
  12. https://film.avclub.com/the-spy-who-disappointed-me-case-file-85-the-brothers-1798261712 The spy who disappointed me case file #85: The Brothers Grimsby|AV Club
  13. https://www.nathanrabin.com/about-nathan-rabin About —— Nathan Rabin's Happy Place