Category Archives: Nic Cage

Nic Cage In The Cage

Regular readers of this blog know that we have a bit of a Nic Cage fixation. “But he does so many bad movies,” our friends say. We readily acknowledge that yes, he does in fact make a lot of bad movies. (Ghost … Continue reading

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The Whole Love, And Vampire Nic Cage

Your attention, please. NPR is now streaming Wilco’s new album, The Whole Love, which releases one week from today. And a Civil War-era photograph appears to confirm that Nic Cage is a vampire. x Whoops, wrong picture. xz x Hat … Continue reading

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Today In Bizarre Nic Cage Behavior

x Ummmmmmmm…: Nicolas Cage is currently at the Toronto Film Festival to promote his new film Trespass. The film, directed by Joel Schumacher, is about the horrors of home invasion and (as any good actor would) Cage went to a real place to … Continue reading

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Friday Recommends, With Precaution: Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call – New Orleans

“I’ll kill all of you. To the break of dawn, baby.” x Our friends who know we love Nic Cage were flabbergasted whenever we told them we had not seen Bad Lieutenant yet. Typical exchange: FRIEND: You guys like Nic … Continue reading

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A Defense Of Nic Cage’s Behavior Last Weekend.

When life imitates art. x We’re back from our spring break blogging hiatus, and we clearly need to address what happened to Nic Cage last weekend in New Orleans. No less than five of our friends texted/e-mailed us as the … Continue reading

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Here Come The Oscars

Someone who won’t be getting a thumbs up from the Oscars tonight. x We saw half of this year’s Best Picture nominees — Toy Story 3, Winter’s Bone, True Grit, The Fighter and The Social Network. We also saw MacGruber, … Continue reading

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The Mathematical Certainty of Nic Cage’s Greatness.

The Oscars are on Sunday! Our picks are coming shortly. In the meantime, hat tip to Mark Hoobler for this: And it is what good actors bring to movies, even bad ones: discipline, conviction, the ability to help us suspend … Continue reading

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Nic Cage Terror Alert System

Nic Cage Terror Alert System, posted with vodpod x Alert Levels 3-5 are, appropriately, taken from three of Nic Cage’s most “mental” movies. (See Friday’s post.) But Honeymoon in Vegas for Alert Level #2? Surely Conan’s writers could have come … Continue reading

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Friday Recommends: Entering The Nic Cage Matrix

From Filmdrunk.com (h/t Andrew Cashmere):x xx We find this graphic to be highly informative, though we have a few quibbles: 1) Saying that National Treasure is only slightly less rubbish (and National Treasure 2 equally rubbish) to Snake Eyes is, at … Continue reading

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A Critical Survey of Season Of The Witch

What did Owen Gleiberman say about my hair? DOES OWEN GLEIBERMAN PAY MY BILLS?? x Even Nic Cage apologists have been at a loss to defend Season Of The Witch, which opened this past weekend to a meager box office … Continue reading

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