At the risk of being hyperbolic, I was born to write about Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.
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In 1986 a struggling Saturday Night Live had nothing left to lose, so it had Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola produce, direct and sorta host a very special, crazy, unique episode of Saturday Night Live.
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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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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?
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Francis Ford Coppola ended his career as a studio filmmaker with this perfectly serviceable adaptation of a John Grisham novel.
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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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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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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.
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