As someone who often has strange, even unsettling dreams every night, I was really curious to see a movie about dreams, with the incomparable Nicolas Cage, no less. Cage isn’t a chameleon in the sense that he can disappear into any role, on the contrary, we go see his movies to see the Cage being …
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FlixChatter Review: RENFIELD (2023) – Nic Cage is fun to watch as Dracula despite missed opportunities to mine the killer premise
Dracula's lackey finally gets his time to shine in his comedic origin story. It's an action comedy a la Jackie Chan movie but with a heavy Tarantino-bent in terms of its gory violence. I expected blood will be spilled in an R-rated movie involving Dracula and indeed there's SO. MUCH. BLOOD. in this movie! As …
FlixChatter Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Sometimes a brilliant idea looks good on paper but doesn’t translate well to the screen. The script of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was on the Black List and writer/director Tom Gormican somehow managed to convince Nicolas Cage to play a fictionalized version of himself. The result is a wildly entertaining & hilarious action-comedy …
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Trailer Spotlight: Nic Cage in ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’
There are only 10 days left til the end of the year and I wanted to highlight one or two more trailers of movies I can't wait to see. I didn't get a chance to post this last week but this trailer is such a riot and of course it's the PERFECT vehicle for the …
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Scene(s) Spotlight: Nic Cage as Castor Troy in Face/Off
Happy Friday everyone! I don't usually post about the same actor back to back, but y'know what, I've been wanting to highlight some scenes from FACE/OFF. I'm an unabashed fan of this John Woo movie, and it's no doubt one of my favorite 90s action flicks. Ok so technically John Travolta plays Castor Troy as …
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Question of the week: What’s your 10 Favorite Nic Cage Roles?
Happy Thursday everyone! I'm kind of in a list-y mood so I'm doing yet another list post today, with the collaboration of my friend Josh of JJames Reviews ... AND also all of you fine friends of FlixChatter! Inspired my our recent viewing of JOE featuring the inimitable Nicholas Kim Coppola, aka Nicolas Cage was in …
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MSPIFF14 Reviews: JOE & Brave Miss World documentary
JOE Review by Josh P. Often grim, Joe is well made and gripping, though, perhaps, not for the faint-hearted. In the film’s first scene, writers Larry Brown & Gary Hawkins and director David Gordon Green define Joe as a harsh drama. In it, fifteen-year-old Gary (Tye Sheridan) accosts his father, Wade (Gary Poulter), for being …
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