Have you ever heard the saying, something has “gone the way of the buffalo”? I think that’s a saying, right?  Well, that’s because in the United States settlers nearly pushed the species to the brink of extinction in the late 1800s. Thankfully, due to conservation efforts of Native Americans and others, the buffalo survived, but…

Shortly before I started this WATC(H) journey, I randomly decided to watch Pig (2021) when it showed up on my Hulu recommendations. While viewing it, I remember thinking, Nicolas Cage is a pretty good actor, I should really watch more of his films.  Little did I know that I’d be watching (many, many) MORE (maybe…

A VERY long time ago, when I was in elementary school, my parents rewarded a good report card (all As / Bs) with a trip to the local amusement palace, Chuck E. Cheese. When it first opened in the late 1900s, Chuck E. Cheese was a pretty clean, 80s-vibrant, and family friendly place that (as…

Just when you think you have seen all the cinematic weirdness that Nicolas Cage has to offer, along comes another film that reminds you that you haven’t. As we wind our way down to the last ten or so films, in the WATC(H) I give you #98: Prisoners of Ghostland (2021) At this point in…

Ah, the dreaded double threat of a 1) a sequel and 2) an animated sequel. Thankfully, this looks to be the last sequel and the last animated film on the WATC(H) journey (hooray!)  The Croods: A New Age (2020) But I still have to go through the motions on this one and give it my…

You take the goodYou take the badYou take them both, and then you have, the facts of life, the facts of life. ~ Facts of Life TV series theme song The hard facts of life are that there will always be a high point and a low point. An apex and a nadir. The peak and the valley.…

We may have wrapped up our trifecta of film’s primarily set in South America, but we didn’t venture too far north in this latest WATC(H) offering, Grand Isle (2019). This film, in fact, is very southern, set on the coast of Louisiana (in the town of the same name) in the early 1980s–you can almost…

An angry Nicolas Cage is usually a very entertaining Nicolas Cage.  In the latest installment of the WATC(H) we get one of the crankiest renditions of Nicolas Cage and that part of the film is pretty great. I’m talking, of course, about Primal (2019), the third (and final) film in what I’m calling his South…

Does Nicolas Cage choose scripts purely based on where they are located (or being shot)? Does he tend to group them so he can go from one shoot straight into the next with as little travel as possible? This is a theory based on very little research or evidence, but I suspect that he does.…