Tag: John Travolta

A fervent, hyper-exaggerated slant against religious fanaticism, Carrie is able to balance that with a fatalist worldview.

Eccentric, bizarre, but sure-handed in its comic surrealism, Pulp Fiction never offers a moment of reprieve.

Short Changing Hollywood So similar are Hollywood and the mob, the two end up interchangeable by the close of Get Shorty. There’s little culture clash as an east coast, …

Hoo Hoo Hoo If there’s a template to Grease’s long term success, it’s the universality of high school. Even with years of progressive measures, nerds still get bullied and …

This battle, taking place without witnesses, feels as if consequences carry enormity.

Despite the horror, Savages never loses a sense of humor that is graded as dark, and certainly hidden within the dialogue at times.

Thin Red Line isn't telling the story of Gualdacanal so much as it's expressing the philosophy of war and how it applies to this specific theater.

There's a vision here that few directors can say they have with such certainty.

John Travolta owns this movie. It is his film. Without the actor, fully into his evil, sarcastic, snickering mode, From Paris with Love would not work.

It is hard to fathom what is worse: that this is the final time Bernie Mac will ever appear on screen or that the producers, director, and studio thought …

The final act is one that feels out of place and unnecessary, despite leading to a fun face-off moment as the two meet for the first time.

Face/Off is a monumentally stupid movie. It followed another John Woo and John Travolta monumentally stupid movie, Broken Arrow. At least Broken Arrow stuck to the basics to set …