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

Director Paul Schrader and Star Nicolas Cage Encouraged Audiences to Skip Their 2014 Thriller The Dying of the Light But They Didn't Need Any Help in Avoiding His Late-Period Stinkers

Nicolas Cage re-teamed with Bringing Out the Dead screenwriter Paul Schrader for the muddled 2014 psychodrama The Dying of the Light, which sucks in a different way than most of Cage’s vehicles from this period, but it still sucks.

Nicolas Cage's 2015 Political Drama The Runner Sucks in a Different Way Than Cage's Usual Fare But it Still Fucking Sucks

The 2015 political drama The Runner was atypical fare for Nicolas Cage at the time but like many films from this era it fucking sucks and was an unmistakable failure.

1990's Firebirds is Nicolas Cage's Top Gun, Only Somehow Even Worse

In 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.

With 2013's Joe, Nicolas Cage and David Gordon Green Did Some of the Best Work of Their Extraordinary, Extraordinarily Checkered Careers

David Gordon Green’s Terence Malick-style grimy drama Joe is one of the apexes of Nicolas Cage’s late period career.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinMarch 15, 2023Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan

Hoo Boy Is Nicolas Cage's Grim Rage a Stinker!

Nicolas Cage sure makes a lot of stinkers. 2014’s Rage is one such dud. It’s a real stinkeroo and also quite poor.

The Muddled 2014 White Savior Epic Outcast is Quite Poor

This film is quite poor.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinFebruary 16, 2023Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen

The Nicolas Cage Left Behind Reboot is Probably the Most Prestigious Christsploitation Movie of All Time and It's STILL Crappy and Cheap

The 2014 adaptation of Left Behind with Nicolas Cage is probably the most expensive, prestigious and best Christsploitation movie ever. And it still mostly sucks!

2013 The Frozen Ground is a Sleazy Stinker That Reunites Con Air's Nicolas Cage and John Cusack For No Damn Reasons at All

John Cusack is real life serial killer Robert Hansen in 2013’s streaming The Frozen Ground, a movie that really fucking sucks.

The Forger is a Dreary Downer That Horrifically Miscasts John Travolta as a Cold Grey Blob of a Man

This one is like my ex-wife’s Meatloaf Surprise: not good!

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinNovember 30, 2022John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Anson Mount, Art

Nicolas Cage's Wonderfully Stupid 2012 Thriller Stolen is the Seeking Justice/Con Air Pastiche We Never Knew We Needed!

Nicolas Cage’s mostly forgotten 2012 thriller Stolen might look EXACTLY like Seeking Justice from the previous year but it’s blessed with Con Air-style execution courtesy of Cage’s Con Air director Simon West