Francis Ford Coppola — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Virginia AND Michael Madsen Are Among the Many Actors Wasted in the Inexplicably Star-Studded 1999 Snoozer The Florentine

Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, James Belushi, the late Burt Young and a fuck ton of other famous people are in the excruciatingly dull 1999 working class drama The Florentine. For the love of God, why?

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 23, 2023James Belushi, Luke Perry, Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, Hal Holbrook, Burt Young, Christopher Penn, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jeremy Davies, Francis Ford Coppola

Disney's Captain EO Captured Michael Jackson at the Height of His Powers and Was a Fascinating, Maddening Glimpse at Empty Spectacles to Come

I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #108 The Rainmaker (1997)

Francis Ford Coppola ended his career as a studio filmmaker with this perfectly serviceable adaptation of a John Grisham novel.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 28, 2020Matt Damon, Francis Ford Coppola, Mickey Rourke

The Travolta/Cage Project #15: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Our deep dive into the complete filmographies of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage continues with the sentimental time-travel comedy-drama that first made moviegoers sit up and say, “What the hell is that Nicolas Cage weirdo doing and why isn’t anyone stopping him?”, 1986’s Peggy Sue Got Married.

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My World of Flops #154/Travolta/Cage 8: The Cotton Club

Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola would-be comeback movie The Cotton Club was supposed to be The Godfather with music. What the hell went wrong?

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The Travolta/Cage Project #4 Rumble Fish (1983)

1983’s Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s art film for kids and second S.E Hinton adaptation in eight months (after the much better received The Outsiders) is stunning but poignantly adolescent in its worldview.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinNovember 20, 2019Nicolas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola, Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon, Tom Waits, podcast, John Travolta, S.E. Hinton