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, …
Deep learning technology, which lets you convincingly map someone’s face onto the face of any performer in any film, has some troubling consequences to say the least. But, where some see an opportunity for abuse, others see an opportunity for dumb, harmless fun centered around Hollywood’s very own walking meme,…
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…
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…
One week out from the U.S. premiere of David Gordon Green’s Halloween on opening night, Austin’s genre film festival Fantastic Fest, new and (hopefully) improved with a new code of conduct and a new, female-dominated board, has announced its final wave of programming.
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…
Ethan Hawke is having a busy year: He recently starred in Paul Schrader’s religious drama First Reformed, and just put his fourth directorial feature—the outlaw country remembrance Blaze—into theaters. And yet, we have to remind ourselves that, even in the most hectic of times, there is never such a thing as being too…
Deep-learning video technology is terrifying. Popularized on the internet under the name “deep fakes,” it’s a process that allows images of one person to be placed onto video of another. Because it’s both simple enough for laypeople to use and convincing enough to trick casual observers, the autonomy-breaking…
Listen good, pal, because we’ve gotta get this news right the first time around, y’hear? You know what Nic Cage’ll do to us otherwise? Beat our teeth out, then kick us in the stomach for mumbling. And I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes, so let’s get down to it.
He’s been Ghost Rider. He’s been Big Daddy. He’s been Superman (after a failed earlier attempt). And now, purchaser of castles and fine portrayer of going bananas Nicolas Cage can add another superhero to his roster of costumed vigilantes: Spider-Man. Or, rather, a somewhat unusual version of the web-crawler.
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.
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To say that Nicolas Cage’s career has had some ups and downs would be an understatement. It’d be more accurately described as a high velocity, back-breaking roller coaster of movie quality. How one actor can manage to be so good in a handful of award-worthy films and so unbelievably awful in so many discount DVD bin…
Nicolas Cage already brought us the definitive cinematic incarnation of Marvel’s Ghost Rider (but only because there haven’t been many other attempts) and he’ll finally get a chance to play Superman in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, but he recently told JoBlo that he thinks his superhero movie days are mostly behind…
Almost 30 years after Tim Burton’s Superman Lives failed to take flight, Nicolas Cage is finally getting his chance to play the Man Of Steel. USA Today reports that Cage has signed on for a voice cameo in the upcoming animated feature Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, where he’ll finally step into the role of Superman…
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…
Closing in on a decade since the end of his career as a mainstream star of studio movies, Nicolas Cage shows little sign of either slowing down his prodigious output or retreating into character-actor roles. If anything, he’s barreling ahead faster than ever, sometimes logging as many as three or four starring roles a…
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…
When he’s not busy dueling with chainsaws or being inserted into every movie ever, there’s a good chance Nicolas Cage is listening to Elvis. Cage is a huge fan of the artist’s music and movies, having made multiple allusions to the King in his own projects. At Sundance, we met up with Cage to talk about his all-time…
Last month, Motherboard reported on a Redditor using deep learning technology to map female celebrities’ faces onto pornographic performers, with startlingly lifelike results. By scanning a bunch of images of a celebrity’s face, the software was able to imagine what they’d look like grafted into a given video—a…
