Nicolas Cage gives horror icon Count Dracula the “Nouveau Shamanic” treatment in Chris McKay’s latest film, Renfield. Despite nearly staking itself in the heart with some weak subplots, this batty horror comedy proves to be a decent amount of silly, gory, disposable fun.
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Nic frreeeeaaaaaakking Cage is back, baby, and this time he’s playing a parody of himself in Tom Gormican’s action comedy, The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. It’s a pretty entertaining and fun-filled filmic shrine to all things Nicolas Cage, but as a whole, it doesn’t quite reach its full potential and fizzles out into another middling Cage vehicle.
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Writer/director Michael Sarnoski cooks up a sublimely subversive three-course meal with his feature film debut, Pig. Although it’s masked as a revenge film, at its core Pig is a profound, genuinely affecting drama that proves that revenge doesn’t always have to be such a cold, violent dish.
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The “California Klaus Kinski,” Nicolas Cage, is back, and this time he’s fending off possessed animatronic puppets without uttering a single word. In theory, you would think this film would be a stupid-fun blast, but in actuality, it’s an underdeveloped snooze that sleepwalks through nearly every aspect of its production.
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Following a nearly 25-year hiatus, writer/director Richard Stanley makes his welcome return to cinemas with his H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Color Out of Space. Featuring stunning visuals, quality Nic Cage freakouts, and an abundance of cosmic horror delights, Stanley reaffirms himself as a visionary, melding B-movie trash, Lovecraftian body horror, and sci-fi/fantasy into one bonkers alchemy that is out of this world.
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Just when you thought that superhero films have grown stale, here comes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swinging in with wit and swagger. After being fired from Solo, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, AKA the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents and fresh vision to the Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that's the first of its kind.
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With MANDY, writer/director Panos Cosmatos takes everything B movie trash and sacrifices it on the altar in the name of high art as an offering to the midnight movie cinema gods. The result is a blood-soaked Nicolas Cage at full-tilt and a movie-going experience that’s so drenched in LSD that you may catch a contact high. You’ll want to lean in and inhale deeply with this one.
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Brian Taylor, who's best known as one half of the creative team that brought us the Crank films and Gamer, branches out on his own to serve up another fun and zany dark comedy thrill ride. Mom & Dad has enough adrenaline coursing through its veins to hang with the Crank films and boasts a wound up and rattled Nicolas Cage at his "Cagiest" since Bad Lieutenant. It may not reinvent the wheel, but it's a pretty rockin' good time as far as January fare goes.
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