In one of his finest and most challenging performances, John Travolta IS Bill Clinton in Mike Nichols’ nifty 1998 adaptation of Joe Klein’s roman a clef Primary Colors.
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Nicolas Cage is a very bad cop investigating a sinister conspiracy at an Atlantic City boxing match in Brian DePalma’s enjoyably ludicrous 1998 tour-de-force Snake Eyes.
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Nicolas Cage is an angel in love with Meg Ryan in Brad Siberling’s ridiculously sappy, shockingly effective remake of Wings of Desire as a glorified perfume commercial with a Goo Goo Dolls soul.
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Hoo boy. This movie is like my ex-wife’s meatloaf surprise: NOT GOOD!
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A famous image from Con Air has been crassly appropriated by the anti-mask brigade in ways that are absurd, insulting and completely contradict everything that makes Cameron Poe so iconic and amazing.
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The big one is finally here! We take a joyous look back at Face/Off the exquisitely bonkers 1997 John Woo masterpiece that inspired this whole crazy column and the Travolta/Cage website.
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Travolta does Cassavettes, sort of, in 1997’s She’s So Lovely, a darkly comic romantic psychodrama that pitted the Grease star against a VERY intense Sean Penn for the heart of a troubled young woman played by Robin Wright-Penn.
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I kind of love this trashy, ridiculous movie.
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Nicolas Cage won the first of what we can only assume will be many Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic opposite an equally powerful, equally Oscar-nominated Elisabeth Shue in Mike Figgis’ moody 1995 drama Leaving Las Vegas.
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John Travolta becomes the smartest man in the world, then uses his incredible powers to woo a pretty single mother and help his buddy grow larger vegetables in 1996’s Phenomenon, a well-worn denim jacket of a movie.
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