It’s already a little hard to see Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy in the ideal format, which is in a big theater full of other people who love Nicolas Cage and horror/action/thriller movies, but streaming service Shudder has chosen to bolster its already-impressive offerings by landing the exclusive streaming rights to Mandy.…
In a bit of surprising box-office news, Business Insider says that Panos Cosmatos’ horror/action/thriller Mandy is breaking all sorts of preconceived notions that movie distributors have about lower-tier films that hit on-demand platforms at the same time as their theatrical premieres. Since opening a few weeks ago, …
Panos Cosmatos’ new film, Mandy, has earned the type of wild-eyed, freakout response that befits a movie about Nicolas Cage going apeshit with a battle ax. If that feels memetic and jokey, like a Chuck Norris coloring book come to life, the movie containing it does not. Mandy moves at a miasmic pace, fading gently…
Nicolas Cage is garnering a lot of attention at the moment, thanks largely to his latest film, the blood-soaked, hallucinatory Mandy. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, the film not only manages to be a lurid, bizarre bit of uber-violent spectacle, but also the home for a crazy Nicolas Cage performance that’s deranged in…
Although the film’s aesthetic owes just as much to bad-trip ’70s psychedelia, the phrase you’ll hear most often when describing the psychotronic new Nicolas Cage vehicle Mandy is “heavy metal.” (In his review for The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky says it has “enough vintage MTV fog machines to kill a hair metal…
There are three sides to Nicolas Cage. There is Serious Actor Cage, who produces humane, Oscar-winning performances that mask a deep, boiling sea of emotion behind his bleary eyes. There is Left Behind Cage, in which he murmurs for awhile until they give him his check. And there is, well, Cage Cage, where viewers feel…
Panos Cosmatos knows his audience. But does he know anything else? Both of his films to date (Beyond The Black Rainbow, the new Mandy) have been exercises in psychotronic drag-ass, best appreciated by a certain kind of movie freak—the devotees of the church of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Heavy Metal, in Mandy’s…
Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where the film and TV promos and teasers are always watching, waiting, de-lib-er-ating. We’ve got a doozy for you today, as Nicolas Cage gives one of his crazier performances in recent memory, so let’s dive right in.
The number of Nicolas Cage movies that are released in a given year could make up their own limited series. Why, in the last two months, The A.V. Club has reviewed two new films, which range from the blandly bonkers
Looking Glass to the delightfully batshit Mandy. In the latter, Cage gets into a chainsaw fight, just…
The only image we’ve seen from Nicolas Cage’s upcoming film Mandy is a close-up of the actor’s face frozen in a wide-eyed grimace and covered in blood. That gaze is intense, magnetic, and partly inspired by Bruce Lee. At the Sundance premiere of the film, we sat down with Cage and director Panos Cosmatos to talk…