Leaving Las Vegas
August 20, 2012
Cage needs some psychiatric help. And a really, really long nap.
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Gone in Sixty Seconds
August 10, 2012
A suspension of disinterest, and one that does not succeed.
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Kick-Ass
August 1, 2012
Volcanic blood splatter and endless curses make for one motherfucking solid departure from the conventional superhero genre.
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Matchstick Men
July 23, 2012
Ridley Scott's heist flick requires that Cage comes unraveled.
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Red Rock West
July 15, 2012
A slick, brooding Western neo-noir. That's its own thing now.
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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
July 8, 2012
To claim Herzog was in the midst of a cocaine binge here would be an insult to cocaine, and maybe a suggestion of a coherent alternative.
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The Weather Man
July 1, 2012
Gore Verbinski's noble, flawed dramatic effort with some fast food philosophy.
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Bangkok Dangerous
June 24, 2012
Situates itself squarely in the prime of Cage's I'll Take Anything phase. Also, his receding hairline phase.
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Face/Off
June 23, 2012
A frantic exploration of how psychotic a premise can truly get.
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Adaptation.
June 9, 2012
My genre's overly-complicated-meta-narrative. What's yours?
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Season of the Witch
June 2, 2012
Since when does a season last for years?
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Raising Arizona
May 26, 2012
Seeds of the Coens' dark comedy take root with Cage's career, and other hackneyed metaphors.
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