When I was a kid the show Miami Vice was pretty popular. I am not sure that I sat through very many episodes (or if my parents would even allow us to watch it) but I remember being very aware of detectives Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) with their cool pastel colored…

I haven’t read a ton of H.P. Lovecraft, but I’ve read enough of his short stories to get a sense for his style and themes. From the Call of Cthulhu to At the Mountain of Madness I know that his cosmicism posits the human mind as a tiny fragile pea quickly destroyed (or dragged into…

I read a really good novel recently called Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway. I enjoy his writing style and inventiveness quite a bit. This novel was excellent because it had a few “game changing” reveals that made my drop. I found myself thinking, “Oh no he didn’t.” When he very much did. The frequent…

According to IMDB there are only a few Nic Cage movies that are ranked below 4 out of 10 possible “stars” in the 110 odd movies he has appeared in. Those films are as follows from worst to not great.  Of these, I’ve already watched Left Behind (laughably bad) and Wicker Man (also bad, but…

Now we move from the DC Universe into the Marvel universe. In our last WATC(H) review we saw Nicolas Cage providing his voice for Superman. In this animated feature, we see him transitioning to another iconic super hero, a Spider-Man, ahem, of sorts.  Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (2018) caused a big stir when it…

It’s been a while since we’ve had an animated movie on the WATC(H) and it looks like we’ll have a couple in a row to contend with before returning to more Cage video-on-demand offerings.  Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) is a Cartoon Network / DC comics produced film targeting kids ages 7+. While…

Unfortunately, we have another Momentum Pictures straight-to-video film to review, and not a good one.  But before we get into that, a short digression. I did a little bit of data analysis and research to try and ascertain if there’s been a noticeable decline in the quality in Nicolas Cage movies in the last decade…

A few years ago there was a Hollywood trend of taking a commonly known TV series, comic, or movie and then remixing / reviving it into a brand new genre.  From comedy to drama, “black and white” to complex characters, or just rebranding from original to modern variants, there were a few different variations on…

He’s baaack!  It took a while, slogging through the rough early days of the second decade of the new millennium, but we have finally returned to the promised land: A prime Nicolas Cage film that lives up to the man, the myth, and the legend himself.  Mandy (2018) That’s right! Finally we’ve arrived at Mandy,…

I thought turning the calendar on 2017 would bring some fresh new films from an acting genius who had unfortunately hit upon a bad slump. I thought Mandy was the next film in the WATC(H) and was destined to turn the tide and bring us back to highly watchable Nic Cage weirdness. I thought wrong. …