One Cage at a Time

How do you improve upon a movie from the 70’s with an almost incoherent plot that seemed to be made specifically to show off cool cars and then destroy them? By making a movie in the 2000’s with an almost incoherent plot that seemed to be made specifically to show off cool cars and then destroy them starring Nicolas Cage. So come along as we suffer through the most Michael Bay movie that wasn’t ma...

A Nicolas Cage movie made in the last three years with a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Does this fantasy horror thriller blood bath live up to the hype? Spoilers: it absolutely god damned does and more. So sit back as we breakdown the 2018 Panos Cosmatos modern classic Mandy. T he year is 1983 in the Shadow Mountains where Red Miller and Mandy Bloom live a peaceful and loving existence that is shattered...

Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe together in a movie written and directed by the guy who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. This movie must be incredible, right? WRONG! So come along with us see as we try to figure out the nonsensical aimless mess that is Dog Eat Dog. Three recently released ex-cons join forces to pull off the crime of their lives by kidnapping a baby to hold for ransom but when the...

How can you possibly improve upon an amazing performance by Nicolas Cage playing a weatherman stuck in a downward spiral of self-loathing and shame? By pelting the poor bastard with fast food at every turn, that’s how! So come along as we get meteorological breaking down The Weather Man. David Spritz is a local Chicago TV weatherman who has won the lottery at life but despite his success he feels...

How is it remotely possible that one of the greatest directors of all time could join forces with the human powerhouse that is Nicolas Cage at the height of his career and still manage to come out with a box office bomb? We’ll find out as we slog through two hours of Martin Scorsese hitting random on his jukebox and setting it to guys driving around in ambulances as we breakdown Brining Out the De...

What happens when you take a classic Lovecraft short story, sprinkle in a bit of Nic Cage insanity and toss it in a visually stunning stew? You get a modern classic and possibly the best HP Lovecraft story yet to be put to film. So buckle up as we break down the technicolored fever dream that is: Color Out of Space. Nicolas Cage and his family moved to the sticks to get away from the rat race of l...

What happens when you take a guy who can make a normal every day ordinary character seem insane and have him play an actual insane person? Absolute, unabashed, magic that’s what! So let’s break this masterpiece down from A, B, C, D all the way through Z as we talk about Vampire’s Kiss. After a kinky night with a beautiful woman who loves extreme hickies, a full of himself lunatic literary agent an...

How can a noir tale featuring three Oscar winners that was directed by a Coppola and written by the same guy who wrote Green Book possibly be bad? We’re about to find out. So come along with us as we have some fun time family fun breaking down Deadfall. After accidentally killing his father during a con gone wrong Joe (played by Michael Biehn) attempts to carry out his father’s dying wish by track...

Some might say consuming six full glasses of whiskey, a 12 pack of PBR, a bottle of wine and a mint julep is a tad much for one man to drink over a roughly 12 hour period but they forget that man is a God and his name is Nicolas Cage. Today we’re looking at his only starring role to ever warrant the dreaded 0% on Rotten Tomatoes: Grand Isle A young father and husband has been charged with murder o...

How many women can a grown man punch, kick and elbow directly in the face before it’s no longer satisfying? We’ll find out the answer to this question and more as we breakdown The Wicker Man.   Edward Malus is a Northern California motorcycle cop, whose ex-fiancée Willow Woodward informs him that her daughter Rowan has disappeared and asks for his assistance in her search. When he arrives at the i...