Hey, you know what movie is fucking great? Pulp Fiction.
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Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece author Jason Bailey joins us to talk about the movie that revitalized Travolta’s career, along with the sweet-till-its-not Nic Cage/Shirley Maclaine momcore weeper Guarding Tess!
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A buttoned-up, uncharacteristically restrained Nicolas Cage has wonderful comic chemistry with a characteristically terrific Shirley MacLaine in 1994’s Guarding Tess, a comedy-drama about the relationship between a prickly former first lady and the uptight Secret Service agent cursed with protecting her that’s terrific and surprising until a disastrous third-act shift into generic thriller territory.
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RogerEbert.com’s Scout Tafoya joins us to talk about the craziest Nic Cage performance no one’s ever seen, and the last pathetic gasps of John Travolta’s money-making franchise before Pulp Fiction!
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Nicolas Cage gives one of his most transcendently insane performances in Deadfall, an otherwise absolute dire hard-boiled crime movie co-written by the Green Book guy.
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The Pitch’s Abby Olcese joins us to chat about Cage’s early-90s dip into hard-boiled neo-noir and Travolta’s deeply white rock-and-roll melodrama!
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Nicolas Cage is a good man who finds himself in a bad situation in this masterful Neo-Noir from John Dahl.
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A charismatic stranger played by John Travolta turns a bunch of Southern white kids onto the life-affirming, liberating power of black music in Shout, a retro tribute to black music and black culture with no actual black characters.
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Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.
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Craig Lindsey joins us to talk about the broad black-and-white satire of Amos & Andrew and the perversely weepy dogfighting melodrama Eyes of an Angel!
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