Peter Boyle broke through in Joe, playing a violent bigot, and was so disturbed by audiences cheering the character that he turned down similar parts afterward, including the lead in The French Connection.
Young Frankenstein gives him the monster, and Puttin’ on the Ritz is one of the best sequences in American comedy.
Taxi Driver gives him Wizard, whose useless advice is the closest thing Travis gets to help. Everybody Loves Raymond brought a long late television run, and John Lennon was best man at his wedding.
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…
Karl MaldenBeyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A sequel that kept the upturned hull and threw away the reason it worked. Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, and no idea what to do…
Albert BrooksTaxi Driver (1976) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Schrader wrote it living in his car after a divorce, and the film never once steps outside Travis Bickle's head. The narration sounds reasonable. That is the horror.
Cloris LeachmanYoung Frankenstein is one of the great American comedies and the highest achievement in Mel Brooks's filmography. Mel Brooks directed and cowrote the screenplay with Gene Wilder.
Bill PullmanSandra Bullock had been working primarily in supporting and lower-budget productions before While You Were Sleeping. Lucy Moderatz is a lonely Chicago Transit Authority token booth operator who has developed daily romantic fantasy interest in a handsome commuter named Peter…
George C. ScottPaul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a hard film to watch, not because of what it shows, which is less explicit than its reputation suggests, but because of what it understands about…
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