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Each week Meg and Chris review one of Nicolas Cage's films with a special guest. Each film is analyzed and ranked on a series of metrics all in an effort to Unlock the Cage.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Let’s go back to the year 2000 for a fun car heist movie and a surprisingly restrained Nic Cage. With our guest, writer/actress Jenni Stukin.
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Welcome to… our episode where we discuss… The Rock. This movie is so big we had to have TWO guests: improvisor Liz Jukovsky and San Francisco native Conor Allen. Listen in and find out what in ZEUS’S BUTTHOLE we rated the movie.
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Is there a more metal movie than 2018’s Mandy? Our guest, improviser John Serpico, loves this horror-fantasy revenge film and so do we. Will it unseat Face/Off, our previous #1? It’s Halloween, so let’s cover ourselves in blood, break out the extra-long chainsaws, and find out.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Cage goes Disney in a treasure hunt through US history. Is it a good movie? If not, is it at least... fun? And what IS a knights templar, anyway? We’ll attempt to answer these questions and more with our guest (the man behind our theme song!), Will Gianetta, who has a pretty solid theory about the connection between this movie and another key piece of 2004 pop culture.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Screenwriter Brendon Bouzard joins us to chat about the this David Lynch / Nic Cage collab from 1990. It’s just as quirky, sexy, and cartoonishly violent as you’d expect, filled with fatal car accidents, a thin Wizard of Oz allegory, and Nic Cage indulging in his Elvis obsession. Also, we answer the question on everyone’s mind: is this movie the prequel to Con Air?
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
A FBI agent switches faces with a terrorist in order to foil a bombing plot. This movie has it all: campy acting, questionable medical procedures, explosions, and secret dystopian prisons. Is this movie as fun as we remember? Was Castor Troy actually… the hero? Improviser and Face/Off superfan Dan Chapman is our guest this week.
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
This week we’re discussing one of Nic Cage’s most critically acclaimed films (and one he won an Oscar for) - a story about a suicidal alcoholic and a “hooker with a heart of gold”. Does it hold up? Improvisor Patrick Gremillion joins us to find out. Content warning: substance abuse, suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault - this is a dark one!
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Meg and Chris invite guest comedian Laura Merli to review one of Nic Cage's craziest films: The Wicker Man. So get your bear suit and don't forget your reverse bee keeper torture mask!