Parenting is difficult. Kids require a lot of time, energy, and patience; teenagers and young adults, maybe more so. (It’s debatable.) As we age, many of us parents may even scrutinize our decisions to have children in the first place. What did we give up and what did we gain? What might our lives have…

As if reviewing Vengeance: A Love Story wasn’t bad enough, now we have to follow it up with this pile of hot garbage? It’s almost inconceivable to me that Nicolas Cage would follow up a very bad movie with a worse one, and yet, he tried. OK, I’m not sure that Inconceivable (2017) was actually…

This one is a hard pass for me. I’ll say a few words about it, to fulfill my obligation to the WATC(H) requirements, but I’m not going to do my typical review. I just can’t really apply my normal formula of review this kind of film and hopefully my explanation below will help you understand…

Sometimes brother’s fight.  I don’t have a brother, so I can’t verify this from actual experience, but I’m told this is true by those who have them.  When I started watching Nicolas Cage movies, I didn’t know much about the brotherly dynamic in his life. Evidently, it’s not easy being in a family of famous…

I’ll admit that in 2011, when I first heard that U.S. military special forces had found and killed Osama Bin Laden, I was suspicious. Especially given the fact that he was supposedly “buried at sea” and the public was never given a chance to view the terrorist leader’s body or provided any photos or video…

Finally we get a film with Nicolas Cage and sharks.  And I do mean, a LOT of sharks.  If you think USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) is a World War II historical movie about the U.S. naval men who delivered the atomic bomb to the South Pacific without “backup” and in the hostile Japanese-trafficked…

Nicolas Cage appears in Oliver Stone’s 2016 film Snowden…just barely.  I tracked his screen time at roughly 5 minutes which barely counts in my opinion for a WATC(H) film. The role he plays with Hank Forrester, a CIA cryptologist and computer aficionado, has him appearing in just two scenes with the main character, Edward Snowden…

Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.  This is both the unvoiced lesson learned from the characters portrayed in WATC(H) movie #74, Dog Eat Dog (2016); it’s also the message Paul Schrader should have learned from his 21st (ish) directed feature film. To the man’s credit, Schrader has written (and directed) some pretty epic and…

I think there’s a saying about how trust has to be earned before it can be given. Or if there isn’t a saying, there should be.  The next movie on the WATC(H) list, The Trust (2016), is a film about two corrupt cops who must learn the art of trust as they attempt a collaborative…

We’ve seen Nicolas Cage in Christmas movies, rom-coms, and thrillers. Action-packed affairs, good vs. bad-guy shoot ‘em ups, revenge plots, cartoons and heist films. Heck Cage has even been in artsy period-pieces and time travel films. But #72 in the WATC(H) feels like the first actual horror movie of his career.  Sure you can point…