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Actor: Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames played Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, and the character’s authority is established almost entirely through the back of his head in the opening scenes.

He has played Luther Stickell across every Mission: Impossible film, which makes him the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all of them.

He won a Golden Globe for Don King: Only in America and gave the trophy to Jack Lemmon on stage, saying Lemmon deserved it more, which is one of the more remarkable moments in awards history.

Kurt Russell as Detective Eldon Perry in a scene from the 2002 film Dark Blue, wearing LAPD uniform in an interior setting.Brendan Gleeson

Dark Blue (2002) Review

Dark Blue (2002) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kurt Russell plays a third-generation LAPD officer who plants evidence as a matter of routine, set in the week before the Rodney King verdict. James Ellroy wrote the…

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) film posterDavid Emge

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a suburban shopping mall, in George Romero's social satire sequel. Dario Argento financed the Italian co-production and supervised the European cut that runs approximately fifteen minutes shorter than Romero's preferred American version.

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Mission: Impossible (1996) film posterEmilio Estevez

Mission: Impossible (1996)

1996 Brian De Palma spy thriller launching the Tom Cruise franchise. Mission: Impossible is Brian De Palma's 1996 American spy thriller and the franchise launcher that has produced multiple sequels across three decades.

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