The Color of Money (1986)
Scorsese’s 1986 Hustler sequel. Paul Newman returns as Fast Eddie alongside Tom Cruise. Pool hall drama. Newman finally won the Oscar.
Paul Newman
This archive gathers the films featuring Paul Newman reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Cars (2006)”, “Cool Hand Luke (1967)”, “Slap Shot (1977)”, “The Color of Money (1986)”, and “The Towering Inferno (1974)” — 5 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Paul Newman serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Slap Shot (1977)
George Roy Hill’s 1977 minor league hockey comedy. Paul Newman as player-coach of dying franchise. Hanson Brothers, violence as entertainment.
Cars (2006)
2006 Pixar animated film with Owen Wilson as race car Lightning McQueen stranded in Route 66 town Radiator Springs.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosenberg’s 1967 prison drama. Paul Newman as Luke. Failure to communicate. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin…