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A Fantastic Toronto Festival Round-Up
Who needs a clever title when you can just get right down to business? Also, happy November. Continue reading
“2021 Was An Even Wilder Year Than Usual For Nicolas Cage”
“Nicolas Cage / Nicolas Cage / You can keep your Brussels and Amsterdam / Give me back my summer in Dresden, man.” Continue reading
“‘Pig’: Nic Cage Does Sad ‘John Wick’-Style Revenge As If It Were Directed By Kelly Reichardt”
Other acceptable director comparison: Hal Ashby. Continue reading
“Richard Stanley Un-Cages Lovecraftian Weirdness in ‘Color Out of Space'”
Unspeakable horror! Mutant nightmares! Eldritch evil! Alexandrian witchcraft! Nicolas Cage gleefully picking tomatoes and peaches off of the vine! Continue reading
Review: Love, Antosha, 2019, dir. Garret Price
I’m not the kind of guy who speaks ill of the dead, but that doesn’t mean I’m crazy about films made in their honor, either. Continue reading
“The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2018”
For your consideration: A whole heapin’ helpin’ of real good performances in real good movies. My picks here: Brady Jandreau, Joaquin Phoenix, Kiki Layne & Stefan James, and Ben Foster & Thomasin McKenzie. Maybe the last two feel like cheats, and in a way they are. But in a totally different way they’re not, because … Continue reading
“A Closer Look at Bill Duke’s ‘Mandy’ Moments”
The poster for Mandy has basically zilch to do with Bill Duke – his face is blended in that ectoplasmic cast sketch in its background – but it should, I think. He’s critical to the film’s bizarre-o world gelling together, a normal (“normal”) character in what amounts to an 80s metal themed D&D campaign where Nic … Continue reading
Be Reel Podcast: “You’re A Bad Dad, Nicolas Cage”
You may remember that piece I wrote for The Hollywood Reporter from a couple weeks back where I talked about Nicolas Cage and Mom and Dad, his newest movie, which isn’t good per se but which I liked enough to say stuff about. Well, that piece attracted the attention of a chap named Chance Solem-Pfeifer, one of … Continue reading
The Most Unhinged Nicolas Cage Movie Moment in Years
You don’t have to look very hard to find a movie where Nicolas Cage loses his shit for one reason or another, and in many instances no reason at all. But Mom and Dad, his new movie, shows him in a mode of crazy we don’t see very often – uninfluenced crazy. Yes, this is a … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 