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Posts Tagged "John Travolta"

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Mad City *** (1997, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Bill Nunn, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 1559

In director Costa-Gavras’s 1997 thriller, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a disgruntled natural history museum security guard, who holds visitors, including a school trip group, hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he […]

Aug, 17

Domestic Disturbance ** (2001, John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, Teri Polo) – Classic Movie Review 1511

It’s dad (John Travolta) to the rescue when a 12-year-old boy (Matt O’Leary)’s mom (Teri Polo) remarries and the kid is terrified by the stepfather-from-hell (Vince Vaughn). All too soon it turns out the Vaughn […]

Aug, 03

Grease ***** (1978, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 1478

Re-released in cinemas for its 20th birthday in 1998 and again for its 40th birthday in 2018, director Randal Kleiser’s breathlessly exuberant, joyous 1978 movie of Grease, Broadway’s second longest running musical after A Chorus […]

Jul, 26

Saturday Night Fever ***** (1977, John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 1477

John Travolta’s first featured cinema big star role turned out to be his finest piece of acting right up until Pulp Fiction. He plays an Italian American boy called Tony Manero, a young man troubled with […]

Jul, 26

Blow Out **** (1981, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, John McMartin, John Aquino) – Classic Movie Review 1283

Writer-director Brian De Palma’s stupendous, stylish, artful 1981 suspense thriller stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects wizard from Philadelphia who by chance records a car crash that’s really a political shooting. While […]

Jun, 02

Swordfish *** (2001, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry) Classic Film Review 1186

Director Dominic Sena’s 2001 action thriller stars John Travolta, who is good fun as Mr Evil, the nasty boss of a crime syndicate, who finds that hacker Hugh Jackman is just the bloke to crack […]

May, 08

Primary Colors **** (1998, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 928

Producer-director Mike Nichols’s 1998 film stars John Travolta, who enjoys himself enormously as US presidential candidate Jack Stanton, a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House, with his savvy, ambitious wife […]

Mar, 17

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