Nicolas Cage reprised a role he played in the 1993 obscurity Deadfall in 2017’s Arsenal as a weird prank on the universe/cosmic joke without a punchline.
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The riveting, horrifying, shark-infested true story of the USS Indianapolis is brought to the big screen by Jaws: The Revenge star Mario Van Peebles in a clunky mediocrity with a deeply committed performance by Nicolas Cage as a uniquely cursed military man.
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A Larry Charles-directed satire about an American who thinks God wants him to kill Osama Bin Laden promised to be different than most of the films Nicolas Cage made around this period. Astonishingly the difference is that it’s even worse!
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Jackie Earle Haley’s 2015 directorial debut Criminal Activities might not have much of a reputation but it’s a sleazy good time with stellar performances from Haley, John Travolta and Edi Gathegi.
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It might not look like it but Nicolas Cage’s 2016 vehicle The Trust is actually a nifty Neo-Noir with terrific performances from Cage and Elijah Wood as bored Las Vegas cops who break bad in a very big way.
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The Paul Schrader-directed 2016 Neo-Noir Dog Eat Dog, which pairs Nicolas Cage with Willem Dafoe, doesn’t have much of a reputation but I dug it.
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Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey are a trio to forget in the rightfully reviled 1994 Christmas flop Trapped in Paradise.
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I dug 2005’s The Weather Man so much that I can’t stop writing about it!
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Oh John Travolta, how come you make so many bad movies?
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Vinnie Barbarino and Blosson’s brother defeat the problem of crack in inner city Miami in Chains of Gold, a ridiculous, casually racist vanity project co-written by Travolta, his only screenwriting credit to date.
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