Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: The Rambler (2013)

Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now.

The Rambler (Dermot Mulroney) spent four years in jail. Not long enough for his wife, Cheryl (Natasha Lyonne), to miss him or even enjoy being around him. He heads out down the road to get into an interbarre-knuckle fight and meet a scientist (James Kady) who has two mummies and can blow people’s heads off with a machine. There’s also a waitress (Lindsay Pulsipher) who keeps dying and coming back to life, too.

Directed and written by Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), this is the kind of movie that people say is like a David Lynch film when it isn’t, because they have no other place to point to when they want it to make sense. So yeah, I guess in that way, it’s like a Lynch movie because it’s strange, but hopefully, Reeder will get to keep making movies like this and finding his way. It’s not for everyone, but it’s for someone, somewhere.

You can watch this on Tubi.