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

Travolta/Cage #66: I am Wrath / Vengeance: A Love Story

Revenge is a dish best served lame.

Travolta/CageClint WorthingtonSeptember 20, 2023podcast

The Joyce Carol Oates Adaptation Vengeance: A Love Story Is Terrible In Pretty Much the Exact Same Way As All of Nicolas Cage's Vehicles from this Period in His Career

This one is like my ex-wife’s Meatloaf Surprise: sub-par!

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinSeptember 11, 2023

BOTH Nicolas Cage and John Travolta Signed On to Star in I Am Wrath But Travolta Was Unlucky Enough to Actually Play It

Nicolas Cage dodged a bullet when he dropped out of the lead role in a version of I Am Wrath that would have been directed by William Friedkin. John Travolta then leaped into that bullet when he signed on to replace Cage in this stinker.

Travolta/Cage #65: In a Valley of Violence / Arsenal

Travolta/CageClint WorthingtonAugust 30, 2023podcast

The 2017 Stinker Arsenal Is Pure Dreck With the Exception of Nicolas Cage's Crazed Villain Turn

Nicolas Cage reprised a role he played in the 1993 obscurity Deadfall in 2017’s Arsenal as a weird prank on the universe/cosmic joke without a punchline.

Travolta/Cage #64: USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage / Army of One (with Abby Olcese)

Travolta/CageClint WorthingtonAugust 9, 2023podcast

Nicolas Cage Tangles With Cartoon Sharks in USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

The riveting, horrifying, shark-infested true story of the USS Indianapolis is brought to the big screen by Jaws: The Revenge star Mario Van Peebles in a clunky mediocrity with a deeply committed performance by Nicolas Cage as a uniquely cursed military man.

Russell Brand is God and Nicolas Cage Hunts Osama Bin Laden in the Unwatchable 2016 Misfire Army of One

A Larry Charles-directed satire about an American who thinks God wants him to kill Osama Bin Laden promised to be different than most of the films Nicolas Cage made around this period. Astonishingly the difference is that it’s even worse!

Travolta/Cage #63: Criminal Activities/Snowden (with Matt Goldberg)

Travolta/CageClint WorthingtonJuly 12, 2023podcast

It May Have the Most Generic Title Imaginable But Jackie Earle Haley's Directorial Debut Criminal Activities Delivers the Dirty B Movie Goods

Jackie Earle Haley’s 2015 directorial debut Criminal Activities might not have much of a reputation but it’s a sleazy good time with stellar performances from Haley, John Travolta and Edi Gathegi.