Travolta’s rudderless career hit another nadir with 1991’s Eyes of an Angel, a barely released melodrama about dog-fighting, Chicago, the world’s smartest dog and its unluckiest man.
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Hoo boy. This movie is BAD.
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John Travolta scored a major comeback as a charming taxi driver opposite Kirstie Alley in Look Who’s Talking, which is enormous fun except for that stupid baby yammering nonsense all the time.
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We take an appalled look back at his long-shelved Cold War comedy The Experts, which made comedic sport out of the backwards cluelessness of those dumb Russians, who will never, ever, ever, ever, ever possibly get one over on the American people.
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In one of his more bewildering roles and films, Nicolas Cage is a totally late 1980s, Los Angeles version of a 1936 Italian solider in Ethiopia in 1989’s TIME TO KILL, a bona fide ITALIAN production built around its relentlessly contemporary, American star.
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Our epic deep dive into the complete filmographies of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage hits a dry spot in more ways than one with “The Dumb Waiter”, a Robert Altman-directed Harold Pinter adaptation where the Grease hunk plays a Cockney hitman, badly, in a predictably dry, theatrical and claustrophobic look at fate and fear.
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A hotshot Rolling Stone reporter covers the story of a lifetime—sexy people exercising and then fucking—in this scorchingly hot and unbelievably stupid John Travolta flop from the creative team behind Urban Cowboy with a mesmerizingly sexy turn from Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Our chronological deep dive into the complete filmographies of Nicolas Cage and John Travolta hits another cult classic in 1989’s Vampire’s Kiss, featuring arguably Cage’s most transcendently bonkers performance as a yuppie convinced he’s a vampire.
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Nicolas Cage is crazy, sexy motherfucker in Norman Jewison’s delightful, Oscar-winning 1987 romantic comedy classic Moonstruck, fromJohn Patrick Shanley, the Oscar, Pulitzer and Tony-winning mind behind Joe Versus the Volcano and also Doubt.
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Five years after Grease John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunited as sexy thieves in 1983’s Two of a Kind, a fantasy-comedy about God and the devil squaring off to determine the fate of humanity in a movie that failed as spectacularly as Grease succeeded.
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