The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
I always assumed that catching bits of Naked Jungle would be the TV memory that scarred me to the day I gratefully died, until I sat through The People v. […]
Tag Archives: John Travolta
Michael (1996)
There’s something fundamentally creepy and slightly sad about Hollywood’s obsession with angels meddling in human affairs – whether it’s Clarence showing George Bailey the dark timeline where his wife becomes […]
On iPlayer: Primary Colors
Adding credence to the notion that any rich schmuck can be president, John Travolta plays a Democratic candidate in this 1998 political satire. Adapted from an anonymously published novel about […]
Basic
DEA interrogator and former Army Ranger Tom Hardy (John Travolta) is brought in to investigate the apparent murder of Sergeant Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson), who disappeared while on manoeuvres […]
Gotti
John Travolta plays the eponymous real-life mob boss in Gotti, very much this decade’s Battlefield Earth. Both films star a mad-haired Travolta, lost millions of dollars, and saw their parent […]
Face/Off
No this isn’t a film about what happens if you get on the wrong side of a chimp. It’s about a notorious gangster, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and a top […]
Blog: 4 shared universes we’d love to see…
…and 5 we wouldn’t With wacky Shyamalan mashup Glass about to break into cinemas, which other directors could make a great shared universe movie out of their existing films? Ones […]
The 6th Day
The 6th Day is set in the near future (“sooner than you think”), when a cloning company called RePet can make genetic copies of your deceased pets so you never […]
Battlefield Earth
To celebrate the release of Wonder Woman, the film that critics are already calling “a superhero movie with a woman in it”, let’s look back on another Warner Bros. landmark. It’s the year […]
The Punisher
After watching The Punisher, I was astonished to read that it was made in 2004. This is, in part, due to the fact most of the action is done in camera: […]
Screen Goblin 