Appendix of Cage 2023: The Year in Nicolas Cage Movies
As I'm in between-meetings limbo, and to lend even an atom-sized bit of legitimacy to willingly watching a lot of pretty terrible films, I humbly offer my own AGE OF CAGE rankings:
****: Vampire’s Kiss; Face/Off; BL:POC-NO; Joe; Mandy; Pig
***1/2: Birdy; Moonstruck; Wild at Heart; Red Rock West; Leaving Las Vegas; Bringing Out the Dead; Adaptation.; Matchstick Men
***: Rumble Fish; Racing with the Moon; The Cotton Club; Peggy Sue Got Married; Raising Arizona; Honeymoon in Vegas; It Could Happen to You; Kiss of Death; The Rock; Con Air; Snake Eyes; The Trust; Mom and Dad; Color Out of Space; Butcher’s Crossing; Sympathy for the Devil
**1/2: Firebirds (Wings of the Apache); Deadfall; Guarding Tess; 8MM; Gone in 60 Seconds; The Family Man; Windtalkers; National Treasure; Lord of War; World Trade Center; National Treasure: BoS; Knowing; Kick-Ass; Drive Angry; Dying of the Light; Snowden; Jiu Jitsu; Prisoners of the Ghostland; TUWOMT
**: Trapped in Paradise; City of Angels; Sonny; The Weather Man; The Wicker Man; Next; Season of the Witch; Justice; Trespass; Stolen; The Frozen Ground; The Runner; Dog Eat Dog; Army of One; Looking Glass; Between Worlds; Running with the Devil; Kill Chain; The Old Way; Renfield
*1/2: Zandalee; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin; Ghost Rider; Bangkok Dangerous; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Ghost Rider: SoV; Tokarev (Rage); Pay the Ghost; Southern Fury (Arsenal); The Humanity Bureau; The Retirement Plan
*: The Boy in Blue; Outcast; Left Behind; USS Indianapolis; Inconceivable; A Score to Settle; Grand Isle
1/2*: Amos & Andrew; Vengeance; 211; Primal; Willy’s Wonderland
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