Nicolas Cage

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

OTT second outing for Nicolas Cage's flaming-skulled anti-hero

17 Feb 2012

(12A) 95mins Nicolas Cage’s latest stab at lending Ghost Rider mainstream credibility suffers from the decision to employ Crank duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor as co-directors. For while certainly high on manic energy, Spirit of Vengeance lacks…

DVD reviews: Amer, My Soul to Take, Season of the Witch, The Resident and more on DVD

Horror DVD round-up

24 Jun 2011

Time for another dastardly delve into the horror DVD pile. We’ll start on a highnote. Amer (Anchor Bay) is actually French but is a studied homage to Italian 70s gialo filmmaking, more concerned with sound, colour, style and mood than coherent…

Drive Angry 3D - review

Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard and William Fichtner star in off-the-wall hellbound actioner

9 Mar 2011

(18) 104min More than any other actor, Nicolas Cage has the ability to move from the sublime to the ridiculous. For every Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas and Kick-Ass, there is a Ghost Rider, Bangkok Dangerous or World Trade Centre. Whereas his…

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman in broad but mildly entertaining supernatural medieval action adventure

12 Jan 2011

(15) 94min Broad but mildly entertaining supernatural medieval action adventure in which Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman star as knights who must transport a woman/witch to a remote monastery. Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds, Swordfish) directs with…

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

3 Aug 2010

The combination of big-budget producer Jerry Bruckheimer and deep-pocketed studio Disney bore attractive if banal fruit with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but the muddle-headed fantasy The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is more likely to make audiences…

Nicolas Cage apology

Celebrity Gossip

20 Feb 2010

On February 18 2009 BANG Showbiz published a story falsely quoting Nicolas Cage as saying that he "wanted to crawl up and hide when his financial situation escalated out of control," that he "admits he was in shock about his huge debts and wanted to…

Nicolas Cage stunned by debt

Celebrity Gossip

18 Feb 2010

Nicolas Cage wanted to "crawl up and hide" when his financial situation escalated out of control. The 'National Treasure' actor - who was forced to put several of his properties on the market to fund a bill for millions of pounds in unpaid tax…

Astro Boy

28 Jan 2010

(PG) 93min A popular manga in Japan since 1952, and a cult TV show in the US since the early 1980s, Astro Boy makes a bid for worldwide domination in this flashy but flatly realised animation from director David Flushed Away Bowers. Freddie…

Nicolas Cage sued by ex

Celebrity Gossip

9 Dec 2009

Nicolas Cage is being sued by his ex-wife for $13 million. Christina Fulton - mother of Cage's son Weston, 18 - has been caught up in the furore around the star's present financial difficulties, and is demanding the massive payment as compensation…

Nicolas Cage's silent terror

Celebrity Gossip

12 Nov 2009

Nicolas Cage was stalked by a mime artist. The 'Bangkok Dangerous' actor joked about his ordeal at the hands of a "silent but maybe deadly" performer but admitted he found the white-faced stranger "unsettling". Nicolas, 45, said: "I guess it…

Nicolas Cage's lavish spending

Celebrity Gossip

10 Nov 2009

Nicolas Cage once spent $276,000 on a 67-million-year-old dinosaur skull. The 'National Treasure' actor - who has been forced to put several of his properties on the market after failing to pay millions of dollars of tax - filed a lawsuit in October…

Nicolas Cage sells LA house

Celebrity Gossip

22 Oct 2009

Nicolas Cage has reportedly sold his Los Angeles mansion. The 'National Treasure' actor, who owes $6 million in unpaid taxes, has sold the Bel Air property for an amount estimated to be between $9.5 and $15 million. Cage, 45, originally asked for…

Nicolas Cage sues ex-manager

Celebrity Gossip

19 Oct 2009

Nicolas Cage is suing his former business manager for $20 million. The 45-year-old actor - who owes over $6 million in unpaid tax and has been forced to put several of his properties on the market - filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Friday…

Also Released - Film

23 Jul 2009

The Blues Brothers (15) 148min John Landis’ enjoyable 1980 musical comedy re-released on digital print in original US edit. Selected release from Fri 24 Jul. G-Force (PG) 90min Comedy adventure about a covertly trained group of guinea pig special…

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

(PG) 124min

31 Jan 2008

Replace the religious sub-plot from The Da Vinci Code with some spurious blather about the history of the US Constitution and you have the successful formula for the National Treasure franchise. The second instalment finds adventurer Ben Gates (Nicolas…

Nicolas Cage's quit threat

Celebrity Gossip

29 Jan 2008

Nicolas Cage has revealed he has grown "tired" of Hollywood and is ready to quit acting.

The Wicker Man

4 Sep 2006

Love can make us do the strangest things. Just ask Neil Labute, the writer/director of In the Company of Men, Our Friends and Neighbours and The Shape of Things. Labute, for all his inconsistencies, has long been noted as the foremost chronicler of the…