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Posts Tagged "John Travolta"

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Shout ** (1991, John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 3743

John Travolta stars as runaway Jack Cabe who is hired by a 1955 West Texas school for interned wayward delinquent boys as its rock-n-rolling new music teacher. Alas, despite a good cast, there is nothing that […]

May, 22

Michael *** (1996, John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Robert Pastorelli) – Classic Movie Review 3741

John Travolta lands a useful tailor-made role as the archangel Michael, with razor stubble, a hairy chest, a flabby gut and wings who drinks, smokes and dances. He comes back to Earth to live in […]

May, 22

The Punisher ** (2004, Tom Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Samantha Mathis, Ben Foster, Rebecca Romijn, Roy Scheider) – Classic Movie Review 3117

There are a few bright spots and an ideal star to enliven this grim and largely misbegotten remake of the 1989 Dolph Lundgren action thriller, based on Stan Lee’s dark-toned Marvel comic-strip caper. Thomas Jane stars as […]

Dec, 01

The General’s Daughter *** (1999, John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2965

John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]

Oct, 07

Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961

Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]

Oct, 06

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble *** (1976, John Travolta, Glynnis O’Connor, Diana Hyland) – Classic Movie Review 1730

The young John Travolta (aged 22, playing a teenager) lights up director Randal Kleiser’s excellently handled, very affecting 1976 heart-tugging true story drama as Tod Lubitch, the teenage boy forced to live in the Plastic […]

Oct, 02

Broken Arrow *** (1996, John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis) Classic Movie Review 1722

Director John Woo’s wild and wayward 1996 action thriller provides John Travolta with an extravagant role that he clearly relishes as cool aviator Major Vic Deakins. He hijacks his own plane with a couple of […]

Sep, 30

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