As mentioned in my last post, the next few WATC(H) movies have not been the most engaging, but as they say in the circus, “The show must go on.”  Of the four films I’ve watched recently, released circa 2011-12 (starting with Seeking Justice) Trespass was perhaps the best of the worst. There were enough opportunities…

I’m not sure if I am hitting a bit of a lull in my Nicolas Cage interest now that I’m past the halfway mark, or if the overall quality of the movies is just on the wane. But I’ve watched the next four (movies #60-63) already and none of them are exceptional (or even that…

Now that I’m fifty and cranky, I’ve been seeing a therapist about some depression and anger issues. It’s what we do. The therapist I’ve been seeing gave me a handout with a helpful acronym. DEAR MAN (Guidelines for Objectives Effectiveness: Getting What You Want).  It goes like this: Describe: Describe the current situation (if necessary).…

Even in their prime, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, and Tiger Woods all had a bad game or two. A clunker as they call them. The GOATs of the world are still just human after all–susceptible to the occasional failure or uncharacteristic bad performance.  Season of the Witch (2011) was Nicolas Cage’s “bad performance”; it’s a…

I keep asking myself, “Is this finally the last Nic Cage Disney movie I’ll be subjected to on the WATC(H)?”  But it seems there’s always just one more I haven’t seen yet. I admit that it’s the animated movies that I’ve had the hardest time with (looking at you Astro Boy, and oh boy The…

Welcome to the new year and the new WATC(H). My new year’s resolution is to catch up with Nicolas Cage and finish watching the second half of his entire filmography. I squeezed in 55 movies in a little less than a year, so I’m hopeful that I can keep up the pace to get to…

Now that we’ve passed the *current* halfway point in the WATC(H) I’ve reflected a bit on my top Nic Cage films so far. I ranked these based on my level of enjoyment / appreciation, and based on which films I would recommend to someone first / next based on the 54 I’ve seen so far. …

Every now and then I have strong expectations or assumptions with a Nicolas Cage movie.  There have been moments along the WATC(H) for example, where I expected to enjoy a movie much more than I actually did (Trapped in Paradise, Guarding Tess, Peggy Sue Got Married) and other films where nostalgia may have mislead me…

Just when I thought I was safe from voice roles altogether, here comes Nicholas Cage’s third fully animated feature film, G-Force (2009) which is all about a team of spies who also happen to be guinea pigs. I’m not one to judge a person (ahem) small rodent mammal purely by their looks alone, but I…

My senior year of high school, I drove a big yellow beast of a car called the Ear Xtasy. It was named that because of a bumper sticker I put on the back of the car to make it look a little less like a grandma car (1980 white-topped Buick Century) and a little more…