This week, Nathan and Clint dig back into the classic mold of Travolta/Cage double features -- unfortunately, it's for more late-aughts VOD dreck. First up is Speed Kills, a Dollar Tree Casino riff starring John Travolta as a fictionalized vers

#73: Color Out of Space

Mar 6th, 2024 45m 37s

This week, Nathan and Clint stare into some glowy rocks for a single serving of Cage in Richard Stanley's Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space! Serving as a spiritual followup to Mandy (with its cosmic-horror stylings and full-on Rage Cage m

#72: Inconceivable/Looking Glass

Feb 23rd, 2024 48m 22s

This week, Cage plays two flavors of bad husband in a pair of VOD-ready erotic thrillers! First, we cover the Gina Gershon-starring Inconceivable, an overamped Lifetime movie about a crazy mommy (Nicky Whelan) who cozies up to a well-to-do cou

#71: 211/Between Worlds

Feb 7th, 2024 43m 28s

This week, we're back to the unfortunate Nic Cage double features -- this time with our boy Nicolas on either side of the law! First, there's the staggeringly sloppy cop thriller 211, in which Cage plays an aging cop who teams up with his fresh

#70: Mandy/Gotti (with Jordan Morris)

Jan 24th, 2024 1h 7m

This week, Jordan Morris (Jordan Jesse Go!) returns to the pod for a seminal moment for both our boys -- a 2018 that saw Nic Cage rise from the VOD ashes to enter a new era of cult acclaim, and John Travolta take his biggest swing-and-a-miss ye

#69: American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson

Jan 10th, 2024 48m 46s

Happy new year, boys and ghouls! Our first episode of 2024 (and the first after a bit of a hiatus) finally puts the spotlight back on Travolta after a string of Cage double-features and Johnny T failures. Blessedly, the television gods granted

#68: Mom and Dad/The Humanity Bureau

Nov 15th, 2023 43m 59s

Nic Cage plays sad dad figures of children (or child figures) facing the threat of violence this week! First up is The Humanity Bureau, another piping hot cup of Redbox dreck with Cage as a renegade agent for a dystopian future agency meant to

#67: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (with Alonso Duralde)

Oct 5th, 2023 54m

This week, we take a break from the DTV dreck to get a little more...animated, let's say, with a pair of charming animated Nic Cage jaunts into the world of superheroes! And we've got our trusty sidekick, Alonso Duralde (Linoleum Knife), to joi

#66: I Am Wrath / Vengeance: A Love Story

Sep 20th, 2023 42m 59s

This week, Travolta and Cage go down the revenge rabbit hole (again) in two Cage-produced schlockfests centered on middle-aged men with bad wigs and leather jackets shooting people in the face. Go figure! First is I AM WRATH, a low-budget JOHN

#65: In a Valley of Violence / Arsenal

1 Aug 30th, 2023 48m 34s

This week, Travolta returns to the fold.... in a good movie this time?! Nathan and Clint break down two tales of violence and revenge, both throwbacks in their own way: one to the spaghetti Westerns of the '60s and '70s, the other to, I guess,

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

Aug 9th, 2023 53m 19s

This week, The Pitch's Abby Olcese joins us for two Nic Cage-fronted true stories of dubious execution! First up is Larry Charles' Army of One, a grating retelling of the real-life tale of Gary Faulkner (Cage), who was arrested in Pakistan ha

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

Jul 12th, 2023 53m 21s

This week, Matt Goldberg (formerly of Turner Classic Movies, currently of the Substack Commentary Track) joins us for the mighty return of... gasp.... John Travolta in a good role? First, we cover Jackie Earle Haley's directorial debut, Crimina

#62: The Trust/Dog Eat Dog

Jun 28th, 2023 49m 43s

This week, Nathan and Clint are pleasantly surprised to find two non-stinkers in Cage's 2010s output! First, there's The Trust, a darkly-comic heist thriller about two amoral cops (A mustachioed Nicolas Cage alongside a wiry, disaffected Elijah

#61: Life on the Line/Pay the Ghost (with Brock Wilbur)

May 24th, 2023 56m 20s

We're back, baby! After a couple of months of hiatus (and a whole new set of chompers for Nathan), Travolta/Cage is back on the case! We're not the only thing that's returned: not only do we have guest Brock Wilbur (co-author of Postal, Editor

#60: The Runner/Dying of the Light

Mar 22nd, 2023 43m 48s

This week, Nathan and Clint go it alone for two more Nic Cage joints, ones in which he plays characters reckoning with their personal political failings! In The Runner, Cage plays a well-meaning but deeply flawed N'awlins politician whose attem

#59: Joe/Rage (with Marya E. Gates)

Mar 8th, 2023 1h 6m

This week on the podcast, film critic and author Marya E. Gates (read her Substack!) joins us for another double-feature deep dive into Nicolas Cage's 2010s filmography, this time as two men failing to run from violent pasts! In the VOD thrille

#58: Outcast/Left Behind (with Dave White)

Feb 9th, 2023 1h 8m

This week, Linoleum Knife's Dave White joins us for some rigorous religious scholarship surrounding two of Cage's Godliest movies! First, there's Vic Armstrong's adaptation of the best-selling apocalypse novel Left Behind, starring Cage in one

#57: The Croods/The Frozen Ground (with Dan McCoy)

Jan 11th, 2023 59m 59s

Happy New Year, Travoltatrons and Cageiacs! The year may have changed, but Nathan and Clint are still trudging along the highs and (mostly) lows of our boys' filmography, as Cage cranks out role after role and Travolta hangs back, waiting for t

#56: The Forger/Stolen

Nov 23rd, 2022 58m 7s

This week on the podcast, Nathan and Clint go it alone for the welcome return of Travolta to the cast! Unfortuantely, it’s in the worse half of an otherwise-decent double feature about ex-thieves dragged back in for One Last Job to look after a

#55: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance/Drive Angry 3-D (with Patrick H. Willems)

Oct 19th, 2022 1h

Third time's the charm for returning guest (and video essayist extraordinaire) Patrick H. Willems, as we strap ourselves into the driver's seat for a pair of gonzo Cage-rage drivin' devil movies! First up is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, th

#54: Seeking Justice/Trespass

Sep 30th, 2022 44m 2s

This week, we continue our descent into the early 2010s with the two films that truly cemented Cage's "will-do-anything-for-money" phase! First, there's Seeking Justice, the Roger Donaldson-directed thriller about a mild-mannered English teache

#53: The Sorcerer's Apprentice/Season of the Witch

Sep 2nd, 2022 56m 4s

This week, Nathan and Clint meet up for a rare in-person podcast! It's a double-dose of fantastical, flop-haired Cage this week, as he fights the forces of evil with swords, magic, and no small amount of dodgy CGI sorcery. First up is his thir

#52: Astro-Boy (2009) / Kick-Ass

Aug 17th, 2022 52m 34s

This week, Nathan and Clint go it alone to kickstart our Cage-heavy catchup through the 2010s, blazing through his robust filmography while Travolta peeks in every once in a while! Still, this revamped schedule allows us to indulge in some genu

#51: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (with Jamelle Bouie)

Jun 30th, 2022 47m 41s

After a too-long hiatus, Nathan and Clint are back, with a new episode and new approach! Since Travolta and Cage's output are going to, well, dramatically differ in pace in the most recent decade of their careers, we're gonna double up on Cage

#50: Killing Season/G-Force (with Marya E. Gates)

Apr 21st, 2022 1h 5m

This week, our boys lean into some hard times on opposite ends of the family-friendly spectrum; in Killing Season, Travolta slaps on a dyed-black chinbeard and a thick moose-and-skvirrel accent as a Bosnian War vet set to take revenge on the Am