TV Updates Nicolas Cage’s live action Spider-Man Somehow, I totally missed the news earlier this summer that Nicolas Cage is starring in a live-action Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video (as the kids say, none of these words are in the Bible). The series is supposedly called simply Noir, which sounds like a cologne, and is By Sarah • Oct 03, 2024 10:54 am
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show four By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage in Renfield Renfield, from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and director Chris McKay, the man behind the phenomenal The LEGO Batman Movie and the horrible Tomorrow War, imagines Dracula in the modern day, dealing with modern problems such as: his assistant, Renfield, has discovered self-help. Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula—as By Sarah • Apr 14, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready for Renfield With John Wick: Chapter 4 opening this weekend, and Dungeons & Dragons and Tetris next weekend, we are rolling toward the absolute car crash that is the film release calendar for the rest of 2023. Things start picking up steam in April, and the film I am most excited about By Sarah • Mar 23, 2023 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Rock Dracula and his sad-sack silly boy I am sure that 2023 will bring us a group of thoughtful, emotional, provoking films to make us think and feel and cry, but you know? All I care about, right now, is the silly sh-t. Fill my veins with M3gan and Barbie and Renfield, I don’t need anything By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal in Massive Talent The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a high-wire act few films could pull off. Directed by Tom Gormican and written by Gormican and Kevin Etten, the film is a buddy comedy built on rom-com lines, a meta comedy about the current state of the film industry, and a dramedy By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage returns to late night The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opens tomorrow, and Nicolas Cage has been doing a full press tour to support it, including returning to late night television after a 14-year absence. He stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night and boy, do I miss movie stars like this on talk By Sarah • Apr 21, 2022 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage gets back into comedy As Lainey pointed out yesterday, we’re about to be up to our necks in Nicolas Cage as the press tour for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starts for real. Cage dropped some soundbites with The Hollywood Reporter while at a screening promoting Talent, talking about how director Tom By Sarah • Apr 12, 2022 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage’s greatest role April Fool’s Day falls on a Friday this year. I bring this up because the trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, came out this week and it’s set to open in April, but on the twenty-second. If ever there was a By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics’ Choice nominations: As expected, no Green Knight The Critics’ Choice Association just announced their film nominations, on the heels of the HFPA announcing the Golden Globes nominations earlier this morning. Full disclosure, I am a member of the CCA, so I get to nominate films, and while I didn’t expect all my nominations to line up By Sarah • Dec 13, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina will fight vampires After crashing and burning spectacularly with the so-called “Dark Universe” cinematic universe of classic movie monsters, Universal is trying again with a filmmaker-driven approach to reimagining their classic monsters in the modern era. The first movie of their second effort to reboot the classic monsters was Leigh Whannell’s very By Sarah • Dec 02, 2021 01:15 pm
TV Updates The History of Swear Words: 2021’s first disappointment I had such hopes. The History of Swear Words looked like the right combination of interesting and funny, and while the full series is sort of interesting, it is not very funny. And worse, pursuit of jokes actually makes it less interesting. The series, directed by Christopher D’Elia—not By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 11:40 am
Amazingness Nicolas Cage swears Yesterday a trailer dropped so unexpected and random that the comedy continuum skipped a beat. The History of Swear Words is a new comedy series coming to Netflix on January 5, which features Nicolas Cage as the host, walking us through the history of half a dozen swears including “sh-t” By Sarah • Dec 10, 2020 12:04 pm
TV Updates Of course Nicolas Cage will play Joe Exotic Ever since Tiger King aired, people have been fantasy-casting the inevitable narrative adaptation of the show. We already had one project in the works, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. There is now a second project officially on the go, this one technically deriving from By Sarah • May 05, 2020 12:37 pm
Amazingness Viral Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage is a great actor with DEEPLY WEIRD TASTE, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he has gone viral recently for giving a bonkers performance in a direct-to-video gem called Never on Tuesday (for the young’uns, like Prem, who have probably never seen a VHS tape, By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 03:47 pm
Nicolas Cage Intro for March 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Let’s start the week with my favourite set of photos from the weekend. There were a lot of good photos released this weekend and we’ll get to most of them soon. But none of them are as delightful as these shots of Nicolas Cage at something By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 08:36 am
