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From the Palantir! Annoying Scorcerers, Hobbit Casting, a Gory Wolfman
9 December 2009 9:36 AM, PST
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Okay, The Sorcerer's Apprentice isn't what I expected at all. The first trailer is out, but can I just say? How in the hell did Nicolas Cage get to be a superstar? He's annoyed me ever since Peggy Sue Got Married.
Fringe has cast Peter's mother (Walter's wife). But what's the deal with her age? (Spoiler alert) Incidentally, what happened to Theresa Russell anyway? I thought she was supposed to be a love interest for Walter.
Maybe new media isn't quite the king yet after all. Nielsen says 99% of video viewing is done on a traditional TV -- and out of 31 hours of weekly TV viewing, only 31 minutes is in DVR/playback mode.
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Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview
19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST
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Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone
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Alex Simon
It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters went through tumultuous, tortured teenage years, often scorned, almost universally ridiculed by their peers and elders alike for the cardinal sin of being “weird.” Most people run from their inner nerd as they grow into adulthood, masking it behind toned muscle, fine clothing and the right haircut, struggling to be that cool guy or gal whom we knew had all the answers and the clearest skin back when such things started to be de rigeur in our lives (and if you live in Southern California, continue to be).
Nicolas Cage is that rare movie star who not only never seemed to care if he was cool,
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Dancing Souls
18 November 2009 5:57 AM, PST
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Envy me, because Werner Herzog's "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is more fun to write about than it is to watch, and it is barrel-of-monkeys fun to watch. Everything about it is wrong, so wrong that categorizing it that way is meaningless, but wrong nonetheless, down to its title (that awkward "the" on the film's opening title card, that anachronistic and irrelevant "port of call," the subtitle itself, erroneously suggesting sequel-hood, etc.).
Of course, the film has no relation to the 1992 Abel Ferrara film, except it involves a police detective who is "bad," insofar as he dopes, gambles and isn't very effective as a cop. In the first film, the character's self-immolation was an existential passion; here it's... I don't know what it is. Herzog was brought on as a director-for-hire (which is very wrong, in the grand cultural scheme of things), after screenwriter William Finkelstein ("Doogie Howser,
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- Michael Atkinson
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A Conversation with Danielle Harris
17 October 2009 2:29 PM, PDT
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Danielle Harris, star of four films in the Halloween franchise, as well as pictures like The Last Boyscout, City Slickers, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, and the television series Roseanne was kind enough to sit down with me at the 2009 Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, Florida to talk about her career. The interview was filmed live, but due to surrounding noise I have transcribed the conversation below.
Ja/Fangoria: First of all, can I say how nervous I am that we are making a film with John Landis sitting right over there?
Danielle Harris: (laughs)
Ja: We're here at the Spooky Empire convention in Orlando, Florida, and how has it been going for you so far?
Dh: It's been good! It's been really busy.
Ja: Have you met any creeps so far?
Dh: Not really at this show, only a handful. (laughs)
Ja: You actually lived here in Florida,
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Tiff Report: Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant
15 September 2009 5:29 PM, PDT
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Moving from film to film can be draining, and I have to confess fatigue is settling in as the festival hits the midway point. Seeing four and five films a day is tough work (honest) and when you are moving between the screenings to go do interviews with the actors and directors, you have to stay sharp.
Strong coffee, and lots of it works for me.
Nicolas Cage gives a hugely entertaining and wildly over the top performance in Werner Herzog’s remake of Bad Lieutenant and though the film in no way approaches the nastiness of the original, Cage keeps us on our toes with a performance that consistently walks the line. Cage has always been one of the most courageous actors working in movies, willing to go big for a part, even if it means going too big and looking ridiculous as he did in Peggy Sue Got Married.
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Reviewing The Oldies: Vampire’s Kiss
25 August 2009 11:27 PM, PDT
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Think of a vampire. Picture it in your mind. The most iconic representations in cinema are no doubt conjured forth: Max Schrek with his long, spindly frame and rat-like visage or Bela Lugosi with his cape, Hungarian drawl and intense stare. Perhaps it is Sir Christopher Lee with his suave countenance, immaculate tailoring and graceful presence. Then again, there is Gary Oldman’s doomed-romantic Count Dracula. And there’s The Lost Boys and the Joss Whedon creation Angel: the lovelorn vampire with a wicked curse. Another very post-modern creature of the night (and day) is Edward Cullen (more likely in this year’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon to steal a girl’s heart than her blood).
Nobody would ever think of Nicolas Cage’s bizarre riff on this legendary creature in Robert Bierman’s film, Vampire’S Kiss. On a technicality, it can be argued the character is not a vampire.
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Top 7 Body Switching Comedies
15 April 2009 9:05 AM, PDT
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We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
One minute you’re a pimple covered teen railing at the injustice of adults, the next you are an adult! Welcome to the improbable world of body switching comedies. Kirk Cameron and Fred Savage failed to launch film careers from such auspicious beginnings, but that hasn’t deterred Zac Efron from taking his shot in 17 Again. He’s not totally copying his illustrious predecessors, 17 Again is more of a body getting a second chance than parent-and-child-switching-places type film, but the principle’s the same. Who doesn’t wish they were an adult as a teen? What adult doesn’t consider what he or she would do differently if given the chance to be a teen again? And who doesn’t love the total wackiness that ensues? That’s what I thought. Here are 7 of the best.
7. Vice Versa - Fred Savage was
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Nicolas Cage: Love Him or Just Tolerate Him?
22 March 2009 6:31 PM, PDT
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Did you see any of the three big studio releases this weekend? Early box office returns indicate that Alex Proyas' apocalyptic science-fiction drama Knowing drew larger audiences than John Hamburg's bro-mantic comedy I Love You, Man or Tony Gilroy's clever Duplicity. Putting it in star terms, it looks like Nicolas Cage beat out the teaming of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, as well as one-time box office champ Julia Roberts and Clive Owens. But did audiences flock to Knowing because of Nicolas Cage, or despite him?
I'm in the latter camp, and that's because his track record of choosing interesting projects has taken a nose dive since he won an Academy Award in 1996 for Leaving Las Vegas. As well expressed by John Anderson in The Washington Post, Cage's performance in Con Air marked the turning point, after which there have been "few detours from the action star
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Int: Nicolas Cage
19 March 2009 12:52 AM, PDT
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One of my all time favorite performances by Nicolas Cage, has been and always will be, Leaving Las Vegas. Blessed with a long list of career credits, I could go on all day naming every successful and memorable movie he.s starred in. I.m particularly fond of his earlier work in Rumble Fish, Valley Girl and Peggy Sue Got Married. Still proving he.s got the goods, Cage takes the center stage in Alex Proyas upcoming sci-fi adventure, The Knowing, opening Friday March 20th.
Cage portrays
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Turner: 'Cage And I Are Friends Again'
23 February 2009 4:06 AM, PST
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Kathleen Turner is adamant there is no bad blood between her and Nicolas Cage - despite their messy lawsuit last year.
Turner accused her Peggy Sue Got Married co-star of drink-driving and theft in her autobiography Send Yourself Roses.
She also alleged that Cage deliberately disobeyed his director uncle Francis Ford Coppola on the set of the 1986 movie.
Cage began libel proceedings against Turner at London's High Court last February, insisting the memoir was full of false claims about him.
He subsequently won the case, and Romancing The Stone star Turner was forced to apologise - but the veteran actress now considers Cage a friend.
Turner tells CYInterview.com, “I certainly consider him a friend, and I believe he feels the same”, adding that the suit “really was more in terms of a legal system than me.”
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