Unlocking the Cage

Let’s go back to the year 2000 for a fun car heist movie and a surprisingly restrained Nic Cage. With our guest, writer/actress Jenni Stukin.

Welcome to… our episode where we discuss… The Rock. This movie is so big we had to have TWO guests: improvisor Liz Jukovsky and San Francisco native Conor Allen. Listen in and find out what in ZEUS’S BUTTHOLE we rated the movie.

Is there a more metal movie than 2018’s Mandy? Our guest, improviser John Serpico, loves this horror-fantasy revenge film and so do we. Will it unseat Face/Off, our previous #1? It’s Halloween, so let’s cover ourselves in blood, break out the extra-long chainsaws, and find out.

Cage goes Disney in a treasure hunt through US history. Is it a good movie? If not, is it at least... fun? And what IS a knights templar, anyway? We’ll attempt to answer these questions and more with our guest (the man behind our theme song!), Will Gianetta, who has a pretty solid theory about the connection between this movie and another key piece of 2004 pop culture.

Screenwriter Brendon Bouzard joins us to chat about the this David Lynch / Nic Cage collab from 1990. It’s just as quirky, sexy, and cartoonishly violent as you’d expect, filled with fatal car accidents, a thin Wizard of Oz allegory, and Nic Cage indulging in his Elvis obsession. Also, we answer the question on everyone’s mind: is this movie the prequel to Con Air?

A FBI agent switches faces with a terrorist in order to foil a bombing plot. This movie has it all: campy acting, questionable medical procedures, explosions, and secret dystopian prisons. Is this movie as fun as we remember? Was Castor Troy actually… the hero? Improviser and Face/Off superfan Dan Chapman is our guest this week.

This week we’re discussing one of Nic Cage’s most critically acclaimed films (and one he won an Oscar for) - a story about a suicidal alcoholic and a “hooker with a heart of gold”. Does it hold up? Improvisor Patrick Gremillion joins us to find out. Content warning: substance abuse, suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault - this is a dark one!

Meg and Chris invite guest comedian Laura Merli to review one of Nic Cage's craziest films:  The Wicker Man.  So get your bear suit and don't forget your reverse bee keeper torture mask!