Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Travolta/Cage Project #73 A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

John Travolta ventures to Nicolas Cage’s N’Awlins in 2004’s hopelessly overwrought A Love Song for Bobby Long.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinNovember 2, 2021Scarlett Johannson, John Travolta, Eliot Davis, New Orleans, literary adaptation, books, alcoholism

The Travolta/Cage Project #72 Matchstick Men (2003)

Nicolas Cage delivers another masterful performance as a con man with a whole lot of issues in Ridley Scott’s masterful crime melodrama Matchstick Men.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinSeptember 29, 2021Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Ridley Scott, Scott Frank, dark comedy, OCD, Tourette's, Alison Lohman

The One Tiny Flaw of Travolta/Cage is that Cage is OBVIOUSLY the Infinitely Greater Artist

There was just ONE conceptual flaw

The Big Whoop, The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinSeptember 8, 2021Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project

The Travolta/Cage Project #71 Adaptation (2002)

Nicolas Cage picked up his second Oscar nomination for his stunning dual performance as a fictionalized version of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his imaginary twin brother Donald in Spike Jonze’s brilliant meta-satire.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinAugust 23, 2021Film, Judy Greer, Tilda Swinton, Nicolas Cage, Brian Cox, Ron Livingston, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, meta, Hollywood, screenwriting

The Travolta/Cage Project #70 The Punisher (2004)

Before Iron Man made the MCU a thing John Travolta dabbled in the world of Marvel movies with a theatrical turn as a family-obsessed villain in the messy and sometimes fascinating 2004 reboot of The Punisher.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinJuly 26, 2021John Travolta, Thomas Jane, Kevin Nash, Marvel, superhero, vigilante, The Punisher, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Ben Foster, anti-hero

My World of Flops Basic-Ass Entertainment for Dads Case File #185/The Travolta/Cage Project #68

John Travolta investigates murders (or does he?) in the insultingly twisty thriller Basic, which is technically a different movie than The General’s Daughter but also pretty much the same.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinJuly 14, 2021Film, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Giovanni Ribisi, Connie Nielsen, Taye Diggs, Military thriller, James Vanderbilt, John McTiernan

My World of Flops Case File #184/The Travolta/Cage Project #67 Windtalkers (2002)

Good intentions go terribly awry in Windtalkers, John Woo’s muddled tribute to Navajo code-talkers in World War II.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJuly 1, 2021Nicolas Cage, John Woo, Travolta/Cage, Christian Slater, Mark Ruffalo

The Travolta/Cage Project Extra: Die Hart (2020)

A relaxed, bald and very fun John Travolta and Quibi scored surprising victories when the sly and funny action movie satire Die Hart became the first Quibi production to get picked up elsewhere, in this case the Roku Channel.