Tag: nicolas cage
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The Best Movies of 2021 (a tad late, I know)
By Christian DiMartino Typically when I make a 10 best list for movies, I like to wait until I’ve caught up with everything I deem necessary. In other words, I await the Oscar nominations, and if there is a major nomination that I have missed, I will wait until I’ve caught up with it. I…
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Review: Pig
It’s an odd time to be alive. Gas prices are insanely expensive. People still walk around wearing masks. And Nicolas Cage gives one of the best performances of the year, in one of the best movies of the year so far. Believe it or not, that last one is probably the oddest, but it’s no…
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From the Shelf: The Rock (1996)
The “From the Shelf” segment is a series of reviews that were written months ago, but until now have sat, well, on the shelf. By Christian DiMartino For many years, I was convinced I’d seen The Rock. Not Dwayne Johnson (who hasn’t seen that Samoan God?), but the 1990s Michael Bay movie. Typically, when discussing Bay’s…
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Great Movies: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
By Christian DiMartino There are probably a great many people who will tell you that Nicolas Cage is a bad actor. That great many people, I imagine, haven’t seen Leaving Las Vegas or Adaptation. It’s not that Cage isn’t a great actor- he really can be, in the right role- he just chooses projects that are beneath…
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Review: Snowden
By Christian DiMartino I remember it like it was yesterday. I walk in the house, sit down on the couch, grab the laptop (which I’m currently writing on), and surely enough, placed on the WebCam was a piece of duct tape. Puzzled, I decided to ask my folks what the deal was. As it turns…
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