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Movie Review – Pig (2021)

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Pig, 2021. Directed by Michael Sarnoski. Starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Nina Belforte, Gretchen Corbett, Dalene Young, Darius Pierce, and Cassandra Violet. SYNOPSIS: Robin Feld (Nicolas Cage) lives alone in the woods with his only companion. When others come to pillage and plunder, taking away his only solace, Robin must venture back into […]

Nicolas Cage searches for his kidnapped hog in UK trailer for Pig

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Altitude has announced that it is bringing the acclaimed new Nicolas Cage thriller Pig to the UK with a cinema released this August. Directed by Michael Sarnoski (Olympia), the film sees Cage playing a truffle hunter who leaves his isolated life in the Oregonian wilderness in search of his beloved pig after she is kidnapped; […]

Movie Review – The Croods 2: A New Age (2020)

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The Croods 2: A New Age, 2020. Directed by Joel Crawford. Starring Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Kelly Marie Tran, Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Leslie Mann, Peter Dinklage, Clark Duke and Cloris Leachman. SYNOPSIS: The Croods find their culture challenged when they cross paths with a more technologically advanced family, living in an apparent utopia. Eight […]

Nicolas Cage set for frontier epic Butcher’s Crossing

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THR is reporting that Nicolas Cage is set to star in Butcher’s Crossing, “an epic frontier adventure” which will mark the narrative feature debut of documentary filmmaker Gabe Polsky (Red Army, Red Penguins). According to the trade, Butcher’s Crossing follows a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a […]

Welcome to The Rock’s 25th Anniversary

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Ricky Church revisits The Rock on its 25th anniversary… The Rock contains so many hallmarks of 1990s movie-making: rogue army operatives, a deadly MacGuffin, a buddy cop story of two completely different personalities and, of course, Nicolas Cage acting his zany, goofy yet somehow still serious self. And when you have Nic Cage starring opposite […]

Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ashley Greene and Jackie Earle Haley set for The Retirement Plan

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Deadline is reporting that Nicolas Cage (Mandy), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) are set to lead the cast of The Retirement Plan, an action-thriller which has just kicked off production this past week. The film is directed by Tim J. Brown (The Cradle), and sees “Ashley (Ashley Greene) and […]

The Problems Facing the Face/Off Sequel

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Tom Jolliffe on the problems facing a Face/Off sequel almost a quarter of a century on from the original… Even in an ever changing film climate, with theatrical distribution facing unprecedented difficulties when coming out the other side of the global pandemic, the predilection for remakes/reboots/sequels continues. If it worked once it could work again. […]

Broken Arrow at 25

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at John Woo’s somewhat forgotten sophomore Hollywood effort, Broken Arrow, which turns 25… Remember Broken Arrow? Memory a bit hazy? Well John Woo’s second Hollywood film, a box office hit at the time, turns 25. In 1996 we were seeing a decided shift away from the kind of heroics […]

Movie Review – Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

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Willy’s Wonderland, 2021. Directed by Kevin Lewis. Starring Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz, Chris Warner, Kai Kadlec, Christian Del Grosso, Caylee Cowan, Terayle Hill, Jonathan Mercedes, David Sheftell, and Beth Grant. SYNOPSIS: A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now-condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for […]