Failures, fiascos, and secret successes: A.V. Club critic Nathan Rabin

Published: Dec. 12, 2010, 9:20 p.m.

Colin Marshall talks to\xa0Nathan Rabin, head writer at\xa0The A.V. Club, the cultural magazine published by\xa0The Onion. There, he began a regular feature called My Year of Flops, in which he spent a year writing up movies that performed poorly at the box office and with critics, categorizing each as a \u201cFailure\u201d, \u201cFiasco\u201d, or \u201cSecret Success\u201d. He continued the feature after a year, and has now collected pieces on\xa0Last Action Hero,\xa0Ishtar,\xa0Battlefield Earth, and more into\xa0My Year of Flops: One Man\u2019s Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure.