Featured One And Done

The Monkees’ only feature film was successful, surreal professional suicide

by Nathan Rabin

Coming off their cancelled TV show, the manufactured group rebelled against their image with this trippy, defiantly uncommercial flop. They punctured their image—and their careers.

An adaptation of the radio host’s memoir made him palatable, even cuddly. But Stern has never attempted to repeat the trick.

Private Parts briefly made Howard Stern a mainstream movie star
by Nathan Rabin
At the height of Talking Heads’ popular success, Byrne stepped away to direct True Stories, a 1986 trip to a Texas town populated by bighearted weirdos.

David Byrne only made one movie, but it’s one nobody else could have made
by Nathan Rabin
A new column looking at film’s most notable one-offs begins with a look at Chairman Of The Board, which in 1998 failed to answer the question “Why a Carrot Top movie?”

Carrot Top got to star in a movie, once
by Nathan Rabin

The Dissolve

Featured One And Done

The Monkees’ only feature film was successful, surreal professional suicide

Private Parts briefly made Howard Stern a mainstream movie star

David Byrne only made one movie, but it’s one nobody else could have made

Carrot Top got to star in a movie, once