Articles tagged "john travolta"

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers met his iconic costar Travolta cold on the set of ‘From Paris With Love’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[2.Feb.10] :. The first time Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Travolta met was on the set for their first scene together in “From Paris With Love.” Charlie Wax, a belligerent, shaved-headed, goateed...

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From Paris With Love dir. Pierre Morel (new film / trailer)

by Tyler Gould

[22.Sep.09] :. From Paris With Love Director: Pierre Morel Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Melissa Mars Opening: 5 February 2010 Distributor: Lionsgate Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a greenhorn at the U.S....

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Film Review

The Taking of Pelham 123

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jun.09] :. Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics.

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Travolta musicals, Hanks’ ‘Big’ lead latest Blu-ray party

by Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[5.May.09] :. A pair of memorable musicals starring John Travolta, “Grease” (Paramount, 1978, $39.99) and “Saturday Night Fever” (Paramount, 1977, $39.99), and a delightful Tom Hanks...

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: June 2009

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.09] :. This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

Short Ends and Leader

‘Bolt’ is an Amiable, Action-Packed Adventure

by Bill Gibron

[5.Dec.08] :. In the highly competitive and lucrative world of CG animation, there’s Pixar…and then everyone else. While it’s clear that companies like Dreamworks, Fox, and the House of Mouse...

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Bolt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. Bolt's faith in his fiction is slightly pathetic, but it's not unrelated to the ways that children (as well as pets) are regularly conditioned.

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

Face/Off

by Jesse Hassenger

[13.Sep.07] :. This may be the last time the Woo signatures -- slow-mo gun battles flanked by slo-mo birds; "balletic" leaps through the air; two-man Mexican stand-offs -- were effective in a remotely serious manner

Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete First Season

by Matt Cibula

[17.Aug.07] :. Everything I ever needed to know I learned from Gabe Kaplan.

Hairspray (2007) (2007)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[20.Jul.07] :. Hairspray doesn't just replay Waters' film, it extends and complicates the original parody.

Ice cream server one day, ‘Hairspray’ star the next

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[18.Jul.07] :. Yes, she really was in the Cold Stone Creamery, scooping ice cream. And no, she really didn’t know it was coming. “I knew I was one of the final four,” says Nikki Blonsky, who was...

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

Wild Hogs (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Mar.07] :. From the director responsible for Van Wilder, Wild Hogs is another thudding men-will-be-boys saga, this time populated by middle-agey stereotypes.

Be Cool (2005)

by Tim O'Neil

[18.Jul.05] :. The John Travolta movie starts off on the wrong foot and proceeds downwards.

Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. As he watches his firefighters guys bond and scuffle, director Jay Russell explains that he began the project with some qualms because of 'all the emotion involved with 9/11.'"

Be Cool (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. Utterly out of place, the Rock is the most convincing character in sight.

Get Shorty (Special Edition) (1995)

by Jesse Hassenger

[17.Feb.05] :. Sonnenfeld keeps all of this under two hours by cutting the movie at a dazzling clip. The film moves like Travolta, quickly and with style.

Ladder 49 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Sentimental and surprisingly uncomplicated, Ladder 49 seems a disservice to the very folks it wants to extol.

The Punisher (2004)

by Stephen Rauch

[12.May.04] :. It is a revenge story, and while we shy away from revenge as a valid motive, at least we still understand it.

The Punisher (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Ungainly and grim, the movie is loaded with comic-book heroic clichés and explosive effects.

Basic (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Mar.03] :. As its title suggests, John McTiernan's new action-thriller, 'Basic' is not very new.

Swordfish (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

What is most distressing about 'Swordfish' is John Travolta. More and more, Travolta is becoming a caricature of himself as action anti/hero.

Swordfish (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Intrigue, deception, display, betrayal. All this is what it is, typical action flick sex-play, foreplay for the big explosion or something equally prosaic.

The General’s Daughter (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The title character in The General's Daughter is dead. The image gets your attention. It's grotesque and horrifying. And it's recalled several times in the film, verbally and visually, to impress on you the threat that it supposedly poses for military, moral, sexual, and aesthetic orders.

Domestic Disturbance (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Domestic Disturbance goes through the motions, slowly at first, and then with a speed that would seem remarkable if you cared a whit what was going on.

Battlefield Earth (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

As one of four producers for the film, Travolta helped to secure the $100 million independent financing, most of which seems to have gone into the Psychlos' elaborate dreadlocked wigs and the enormous platform boots that make the big meanies look eight feet tall and terribly slow on their feet.