Joe Pantoliano built a career on characters who are about to betray someone, in The Fugitive, Memento and The Matrix, where Cypher’s diner scene about the steak is the film’s clearest statement of its own premise.
Risky Business gave him Guido the killer pimp, and Bad Boys gave him a police captain permanently at the end of his patience.
The Sopranos won him an Emmy for Ralph Cifaretto, a character of such unpleasantness that his exit is a relief.
He has written two memoirs and campaigns publicly about depression, having been diagnosed with clinical depression himself.
Eddie MurphyThe Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred million dollars was spent on a lunar nightclub comedy that took about four and a half million worldwide, which is among the worst…
Curtis Armstrong1983 Paul Brickman comedy with Tom Cruise as a Chicago teen who turns his parents' empty house into a brothel for one weekend. Risky Business is Paul Brickman's 1983 American comedy and the film that launched Tom Cruise's career.
Gabrielle UnionBad Boys is the buddy cop franchise that defined Miami action cinema for three decades. Michael Bay directed the first two films.
Carrie-Anne MossChristopher Nolan's directorial breakthrough. Guy Pearce's career-defining performance.
Carrie-Anne MossThe Wachowskis accomplished something that almost never happens in blockbuster cinema: they made a philosophy lecture into one of the most viscerally entertaining action films ever made, and the philosophy and the action are the same thing. This review is…
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