Walken took a break from playing more disturbed characters to do Nine Lives. There, he played a whimsical magician and owner of an exotic pet store who couldn’t have been further from Walken’s usual ...

As ill-fated coffee shop burglar Pumpkin in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Tim Roth knows the truth about a privileged piece of movie mythology. “We tend to know only as much as [our character] ...

One of Walken’s very best monologues, right up there with Pulp Fiction, comes from The Comfort of Strangers, a discomfiting 1991 psychological thriller directed by Paul Schrader and written by the ...