Tag: johntravolta

Lund 2019: WEREWOLF And BLISS in First Wave Plus an Anniversary Screening of a Tarantino Classic

Lund, the festival from the town of the same name in Sweden, is gearing up for its twenty-fith edition at the end of September.    Last week they announced the travelling roadshow called Nerd culture on Tour - Skåne complete...

Review: In THE FANATIC, John Travolta Wants To Break Stuff

Aside from fronting Limp Bizkit – that nu metal band most people don’t want to admit they moshed to in high school – Fred Durst has also branched out into directing indie films, first with the drama The Education of...

Friday One Sheet: Floating Heads, The Horror, The Horror

It is the week of Halloween, and horror movie posters abound. But the real horror is the poster-trend that never seems to die: the infamous floating heads. This trend came to prominence in the age of Walmart DVD shelves. Getting...

Review: IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, Ti West's New Western

In Sergio Leone's classic The Good The Bad And The Ugly, one of many iconic scenes involves a gunfighter sneaking up to murder Eli Wallach's Tuco in a bathtub. The anonymous heavy lost his arm in a shootout with Tuco...

Fantasia 2016 Review: IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE Is A Talky If Slight Examination Of Western Tropes

In Sergio Leone's classic The Good The Bad And The Ugly, one of many iconic scenes involves a gunfighter sneaking up to murder Eli Wallach's Tuco in the bath-tub. The anonymous heavy lost his arm in a shootout with Tuco...

Fantasia 2016: ScreenAnarchy Raises the Curtain on Top Picks

Every year, those who don't already live in Montreal descend upon the city for what I like to call "summer movie camp." Fantasia hosts three glorious weeks of kung-fu, kaiju, sci-fi, horror, awards, short programs, live events, and its awesome...

Review: CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, Now On Blu-ray And VOD

The first notion presented in Criminal Activities, the directorial debut of Watchmen's Jackie Earle Haley, is a common and precise one: life is unpredictable, one day you are here and the next moment you can be gone. Even if the film...

The View From Jackie Earle Haley's Trunk Is Not So Great In Clip From CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

Jackie Earle Haley is making his directorial debut with the crime flick Criminal Activities. Apart from directing it he also stars in it and has brought on board actors like Michael Pitt and John Travolta. We have been give an...

Pretty Packaging: PULP FICTION UK 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box

(Jules: "Vincent! We happy?" Vincent: "Yeah, we happy.") My, my, how does time fly... It seems like yesterday that I walked into a Dutch theater and watched Pulp Fiction for the first time, the audience literally rolling over with laughter...

70s Rewind: Brian De Palma's CARRIE, In Pictures And Posters

A touchstone for modern horror, Brian De Palma's Carrie remains a brutal and brutish look at the ultimate outsider: a teenage girl who can move things with her mind. Stephen King's first published novel, released in April 1974, reportedly sold...

Just A Reminder: PULP FICTION BluRay

This is better than a royale with cheese. To say the least Pulp Fiction has been done proud. My only complaint is the continued lack of a commentary but even that relatively major annoyance is left in the dust by...

Miramax catalog continues to trickle out on Blu- PULP FICTION and JACKIE BROWN in October?

As some of you may know, it was announced back in February that Lionsgate had acquired the Miramax back catalog for distribution on Blu-ray. The Scream Trilogy was one of their inaugural releases under that deal and a tentative date...

Todd's Thoughts On FROM PARIS WITH LOVE.

In a word, icky.  It's a buddy comedy with zero chemistry between the buddies in which one is saddled with an unconvincing accent and distracted John Waters moustache and nothing particularly interesting to do while the other overacts wildly while...

French Trailer for FROM PARIS WITH LOVE is NSFW, yet Funny as Hell!

John Travolta as a foul mouth, take-no-crap, loose cannon with the tendency to lashed out violently at the drop of the hat in slick fashion? Yeah baby!  Now that's what I'm talking about.  The french trailer for Pierre Morel's...

John Travolta drops an All-out Assault of F-Bombs in FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

Apparently, an assload of F-Bombs is not the only thing John Travolta will be firing in the French actioner From Paris with Love from Pierre Morel, the director of the sleeper hit Taken and Banlieue 13. As before in Taken...