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Best Actor: Samuel L. Jackson, for Jackie Brown. Okay, so the movie wasn't what anyone expected. But it's high time everyone acknowledged Jackson's genius. He's too raw and too passionate for the Academy, but those gremlin eyes have lit fires under young people since Pulp Fiction...
Best (Study Break) Picture: Face/Off. Clocking in at close to two-and-a-half hours, Face/Off is John Woo's pulp epic with one of the most devious action plots ever. Woo breaks out the book of Coppola for the artistry behind his intricate family entanglements, lush cinematography and immaculately choreographed violence. So he doesn't have Coppola's storytelling skill; who needs a story when you can have Travolta and Cage...
...plate full professionally too. He turned down As Good As It Gets, Jackie Brown and Good Will Hunting but has seemingly appeared in every other film produced in the past three years. "I get the top scripts now, and that's a beautiful thing," he beams. Since 1994's Pulp Fiction gave him a "second chance" at stardom, he's shot 10 movies nearly back to back, outpacing Hollywood workhorses Gene Hackman and Kevin Bacon. "I mean, he's gotta take some time off," declares co-star Kathy Bates. "Every time I turn around, he's in another picture. When...
...case you haven't heard, the wildly overrated writer-director of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown has decided to amuse and confound the New York theater scene by accepting a part in a much-ballyhooed revival of Frederick Knott's classic 1966 thriller, Wait Until Dark. Tarantino plays Harry Roat, a ruthless drug smuggler who coerces two small-time hoods (Stephen Lang and Juan Hernandez) into helping him recover a shipment of heroin hidden in the apartment of an unwitting couple. When they discover that Suzy (Marisa Tomei), the homebound wife, is blind, the crooks wait for her husband...
...rare these days for a movie not to insult your intelligence. For every 50 brain-numbing flicks like Twister, Volcano or Con Air, we might be blessed with one smart film like Pulp Fiction or Fargo. Hollywood is now in the business for the masses--"The audiences want earthquake, volcano, flood, tornado and asteroid movies, so that's what we'll give them," the studio execs smugly think to themselves...