Hallelujah! Nicolas Cage has finally returned. Once a brilliant and respected actor whose eccentricities and prodigious talents combined to create truly memorable characters like H.I. McDunnough in the Coen Brothers’ zany masterpiece, “Raising Arizona,” and Charlie Kaufman’s neurotic, alter-ego twins in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation,” Cage has since become known more for laughably bad turns in [...]
Dear Mr. Burton: What happened to you? You used to be so creative, have such imagination. You were strange, unknowable but always managed to imbue your films with such heart and feeling. From “Ed Wood” to “Edward Scissorhands” to “Beetlejuice” your films have always entertained and inspired us. But when you undertook to usurp the [...]
A sequel to Nic Cage’s awful “Ghost Rider?” No, no, no, that would be too conventional. It may already be getting a full franchise reboot. Yes, that’s right. A reboot, or a reconception, if you like, after only one movie. Cage recently told MTV that he would “like to do a reconceive,” for “Ghost Rider [...]
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