John Travolta and writer-director Sylvester Stallone hit the jackpot at the box office, and struck out creatively with 1983’s Staying Alive, a hilariously terrible sequel to Saturday Night Fever.
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Nicolas Cage attained perfection with the help of Holly Hunter, John Goodman and the Coen Brothers in the classic 1987 crime comedy Raising Arizona.
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Our deep dive into the complete filmographies of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage continues with the sentimental time-travel comedy-drama that first made moviegoers sit up and say, “What the hell is that Nicolas Cage weirdo doing and why isn’t anyone stopping him?”, 1986’s Peggy Sue Got Married.
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You know what movie really holds up? Brian DePalma’s 1981 masterpiece Blow Out, which proved, yet again, that John Travolta was more than just a pretty face.
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The scorchingly sexy, perfectly cast John Travolta and Debra Winger are looking for love in all the wrong places in the fascinating if overlong 1980 sleeper hit Urban Cowboy.
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Nicolas Cage played a legendary real-life Canadian sculler in the 1986 historical biopic The Boy in Blue, a movie that will make you ask questions like, “What the hell is sculling?” and “Why did Cage waste his time with this nonsense?
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Nicolas Cage got INTENSE playing a shattered Vietnam veteran in Alan Parker’s arty adaptation of William Wharton’s novel.
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John Travolta’s world class winning streak crashed head-first into a brick wall of terribleness, with his notorious first flop, the abysmal, sleep-inducing star-crossed romantic drama Moment by Moment, with a never-worse Lily Tomlin.
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Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola would-be comeback movie The Cotton Club was supposed to be The Godfather with music. What the hell went wrong?
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A never-better John Travolta disco-danced his way to super-stardom in 1977’s masterful Saturday Night Fever, a bracingly grim exploration of the cruelty and arrogance of youth and the seedy underbelly of the American dream.
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