UnCaged

We're back! We took three months off and chose to return with a terrible decision, 2002's whitewashed war movie Windtalkers. It should be the story of two dispossessed people forced to fight for their oppressors, but no, it's about a dumb white guy and his mates. Marielle loves Adam Beach, Cam didn't watch the whole movie and Nicky is just generally resentful.

Music from Skin Mechanix, available at Magnatune.

Ho x3! It's a special Holiday Edition of UnCaged and we are joined by writer Erin Riley for this Cagey Christmas movie, 2000's The Family Man. On one level we discuss issues of class and social changes, but on another we crush hard on Téa Leoni and on yet another, we discuss if this film could be made in a post-9/11 world.

It's all the holiday fun as we ponder the fate of Family Cage and the children, and Erin reveals why she wanted to do this movie since we started two years ago.

Have a very happy festive period, and you can hear more from us next year! 

Mamma Mia! Here we go again! It's another movie where Cage's accent is all over the place, into stereotype territory, particularly odd since he is an Italian-American playing an Italian! It's Captain Corelli's Mandolin, based on a very depressing book. Is it a depressing movie? Well, it has a cast of notable Greek stars like John Hurt, Christian Bale and Penelope Cruz. For more, you'll just have to listen.

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Cage is back from Hell to kick ass and drive...angry. Plus he has a gun for some reason, and he's pursued by a cut-price Christopher Walken. Double plus, Amber Heard beats men up and kicks them in the balls. Big minus: THAT sex scene. Please stop trying to make Sexy Nic Cage happen. It's not gonna happen.

We apologise for the delay, and we really hope to get back on schedule soon. In the mean time, you can donate to our Patreon to help that happen.

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An Oliver Stone film about conspiracies and how bad the government is? Surely not! Nicky, Cam and Marielle sat down to watch Snowden, a biopic with an ending you can guess about things you already know. And Nicolas Cage? Barely even there, so why did we bother? Marielle is bothered by Joseph Gordon-Leavitt's voice, Nicky is bothered by Nicolas Cage's sideburns, and Cam is just generally bothered.

Music by Skin Mechanix, available from Magnatune.

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Nicolas Cage can see 2 minutes into the future. We wish we'd done that 2 minutes before we watched this. Comedian Lucy Valentine (SBS Comedy, Cracked, Boonta Vista Socialist Club) joins Cam, Marielle and Nicky to discuss the dead animal on Nic's head, the wasted talent of Julianne Moore, the gaping plot holes, and Jessica Biel. Plus, Cam is extremely upset, Lucy got drunk to cope, and Marielle wants rewriting credits.

You can check out Lucy on Boonta Vista Socialist Club and on Twitter as @LucyXVI. We're on Twitter as @uncagedpod and our website is uncagedpodcast.com

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Oh hi everybody!

You may know The Room as a cult classic, the Citizen Kane of bad movies. And, amazingly, Nicolas Cage is nowhere to be seen. But we watched it anyway, and recorded our thoughts as a special bonus episode, not part of the Cage canon but still bad. 

So, so bad.

We did not like it, we did not, it's bullshit, oh hi Mark. 

Have you been disappointed when a movie didn't have a giant skeleton pissing fire? We always are, until now. Ghost Rider/Marvel expert Terry joins Cam and Nicky for a second time to discuss Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Idris Elba? Christopher Lambert? Anthony Stewart Head? Nicolas Cage? A giant skeleton driving an earth mover? What could go wrong?

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Just a quick update about our new Patreon, and how you can help us make a little bit of money to keep the lights on. There is a new episode next week, we promise you. 

We're back! And our recording equipment didn't work, because Cam's laptop is 1000 years old and made of duct tape. So we have a bootlegged iPhone-recorded version. Old mate Terry, aka "Broseidon" joins Nicky and Cam (and an absent Marielle, there in spirit) to discuss the craptacular Ghost Rider, featuring a flaming skeletons, a big chain, Peter Fonda and Eva Mendes as a lamp.

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