Travolta/Cage #53: The Sorcerer's Apprentice/Season of the Witch

This week, Nathan and Clint meet up for a rare in-person podcast! It's a double-dose of fantastical, flop-haired Cage this week, as he fights the forces of evil with swords, magic, and no small amount of dodgy CGI sorcery. 

First up is his third and final Disney collab with Jon Turteltaub, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, where he plays Obi-Wan (with a sick leather trenchcoat) to a baby wizard played by Jay Baruchel at peak nebbish nerdiness. It's ostensibly an adaptation of that bit from Fantasia where Mickey Mouse makes the mops dance, but filtered through a buttload of Harry Potter and a vastly overqualified cast.

Then, we go small for the folk horror-inspired slog Season of the Witch, where Cage and Ron Perlman play deserters from the Crusades tasked with escorting a maybe-witch (Claire Foy) to a distant monastery where they might exorcise her. There are glimmers of some neat Hammer horror darkness -- see plague-ridden Christopher Lee -- but it's otherwise a dim, cheap action-horror pastiche. 

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