Cash Out review – John Travolta invests in Fast and Furious style failed-heist caper
Action thriller begins with glossy vibes, but loses the champagne-fuelled aspirations too soon and wastes co-star Kristin Davis
June 2024
‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths
As Julia Louis-Dreyfus tackles the death of her on-screen daughter in recent fantastical drama Tuesday, Guardian writers look back at the death scenes that ruined them
January 2024
If Harrison Ford and John Travolta can be crowned living legends of aviation, why not Prince Harry?
Marina Hyde
In dark times, these are the heroes we need: one crash-landed, the other has a Boeing 707 in his driveway. The prince is in good company, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
November 2023
Stream team
Face/Off is Woo, Cage and Travolta at their most bonkers – and it is a riot
If John Woo has ever heard the phrase ‘less is more’, this wonderfully insane 1997 film about two men stealing each other’s faces suggests he never took it to heart
August 2023
Mob Land review – southern gothic drama drags like a wounded pig
Mob Land review – kindly sheriff John Travolta drawn into blood-soaked plot
April 2023
John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever suit up for sale – with ‘authentic’ sweat marks
One of two identical white three-pieces worn by star in 1977 role expected to fetch $250,000
December 2022
White Noise to It’s A Wonderful Life: the best films to watch on TV over Christmas
Adam Driver stars in an action-packed adaptation of Don DeLillo’s great American novel, while Frank Capra’s smart twist on A Christmas Carol offers a lesson in the season’s true spirit
Tributes flow for Olivia Newton-John after Australian star’s death
John Travolta, Kylie Minogue, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and more have shared their tributes to the actor and singer
Dame Olivia Newton-John obituary
Singer and actor with a girl-next-door reputation whose career rocketed after her starring role as Sandy in Grease
Olivia Newton-John, star of Grease, dies aged 73
Pop star best known for her role in the film musical devoted her later life to activism in support of cancer research
December 2021
‘The Wizard of Oz of entertainment’: the incredible career of Robert Stigwood
He managed the Bee Gees and created Saturday Night Fever but the closeted impressario ‘never felt that sense of success’ according to a new documentary
July 2021
Blow Out at 40: Brian De Palma’s ingenious thriller remains his greatest
The auteur’s dazzling 1981 masterpiece sees a never-better John Travolta find himself caught in a dangerous murder plot
February 2021
How we made
Danny DeVito and Barry Sonnenfeld: how we made Get Shorty
‘Gene Hackman was scary as hell. At the premiere, he pulled me aside and said: “I didn’t think you had a clue what you were doing!”’
No hiding place: Travolta and Willis get an unwelcome dose of limelight in the Covid era
With VOD now the way to watch new releases, Hollywood’s old-timey workhorses might be washed up, but they are suddenly getting plenty of attention
Eye for an Eye review – Travolta goes sleuthing in Texas
Hardboiled private eye John Travolta tussles with corrupt casino owner Morgan Freeman in a thriller whose biggest mystery is its plot
December 2020
Teenage kicks
Diane Lane's teenage obsessions: 'I'm still scarred by A Clockwork Orange'
With the release of her new film Let Him Go, the actor recalls the sex and violence of 70s movies, doing the hustle to Troglodyte and falling in love with John Travolta’s cool desperation
July 2020
Kelly Preston: a classy actor who graduated from teen-movie roles to darker and funnier parts
Peter Bradshaw
Kelly Preston, actor and wife of John Travolta, dies aged 57 from breast cancer
June 2020
The Fanatic review – John Travolta plumbs the depths in grisly stalker flick
Travolta plays an isolated obsessive who tracks down his movie hero in this nasty drama, directed by former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst