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Movie Review – Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)

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Vengeance: A Love Story, 2017. Directed by Johnny Martin. Starring Nicolas Cage, Don Johnson, Deborah Kara Unger, Anna Hutchison, and Talitha Bateman. SYNOPSIS: A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother. Vengeance opens by showing us the questionable judgement of Detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage) as a bust goes terribly wrong.  […]

Movie Review – Arsenal (2017)

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Arsenal, 2017. Directed by Steven C. Miller. Starring Nicolas Cage, Adrian Grenier, John Cusack, and Johnathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: A Southern mobster attempts to rescue his kidnapped brother. Is there a better way to ring in a new year of movies with some more material to add to the Nicolas Cage ‘Losing His S*** Montage’? The […]

Isabelle Huppert joins Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia

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According to The Film Stage, Elle star Isabelle Huppert has signed on to star in Siberia, the latest project from controversial filmmaker Abel Ferrara (The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant), and will be joined in the cast by Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe. Last year, Ferrara launched a Kickstarter for Sibera, where the project was described as “a […]

Exclusive Interview – Nicolas Cage and Mario Van Peebles discuss USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

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Based on a true story of survival, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage stars Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) and Thomas Jane (Deep Blue Sea) in this gripping, wartime action drama directed by Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City). After delivering one of the atomic bombs […]

Movie Review – Snowden (2016)

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Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant, Joely Richardson, Ben Schnetzer, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: The story of Edward Snowden, former soldier and CIA operative, who went on to work for the NSA and make public the agency’s illegal surveillance […]

Kevin Smith would like to see Superman Lives as an animated movie

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In the mid-90s, Warner Bros. and Batman producer Jon Peters enlisted Tim Burton for a reboot of the Superman franchise, hoping Burton could do for the Man of Steel what he did for the Dark Knight back in 1989. After several years in development, the studio opted to pull the plug on what ultimately became […]

Movie Review – Snowden (2016)

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Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Ben Chaplin, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, and Edward Snowden. SYNOPSIS: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Snowden (2016)

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Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Timothy Olyphant, Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: The story of how infamous former-US government employee Edward Snowden leaked top secret state secrets about NSA surveillance techniques to the public, and the ensuing fallout that followed. No stranger to […]