The Nicolas Cage Project

  • Deadfall (1993)

    Deadfall (1993)

    What’s this all about? Deadfall is the story of a family of conmen, who pull off some of the most basic cons you’ve ever seen, and manage to (sometimes accidentally) kill each…

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  • Red Rock West (1993)

    Red Rock West (1993)

    What’s this all about? Michael (Nicolas Cage), an injured Marine Corps veteran travels from Texas to Wyoming in search of a job working on oil rigs.Finding himself destitute when his only prospect…

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  • Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

    Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

    What’s this all about? Honeymoon in Vegas is a romantic comedy about an ill-fated pair of lovers who decide, on a whim, to run off to Vegas to get married, and complications…

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  • Zandalee (1991)

    Zandalee (1991)

    What’s this all about? Zandalee is a work of soft-core pornography that tells the story of several trashy, but somehow also pretentious New Orleans residents who have problems that I don’t care…

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  • Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)

    Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)

    What’s this all about? Oh, man. Here we go. There’s a lady who looks like “Pinky” from the Beauty School Dropout number in Grease, who can fly, and sings a bunch of…

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  • Fire Birds (1990)

    Fire Birds (1990)

    What’s this all about? Fire Birds is the story of how the United States Army won the war on drugs through the direct application of attack helicopters. It features no subplots, no…

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  • Wild at Heart (1990)

    Wild at Heart (1990)

    Editor’s Note: We watched this film on Friday, January 10th, 2025. I wrote my review the next day. On January 15th, 2025, David Lynch, the director and screenwriter for Wild At Heart…

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  • Time To Kill (1989)

    Time To Kill (1989)

    What’s this all about? The Italian film Time To Kill tells the story of a Lieutenant in the Italian army during the Italian colonization of Ethiopia (the mid-1930’s), who goes on an…

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  • Never on Tuesday (1987)

    Never on Tuesday (1987)

    What’s this all about? Never on Tuesday tells the story of two horny males of indeterminate age (I’m guessing early college-age, but this is never made clear), who accidentally crash their car…

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  • Moonstruck (1987)

    Moonstruck (1987)

    What’s this all about? Cher plays a widow whose name doesn’t matter. She agrees to marry a man that she doesn’t love; then almost immediately has sex with that man’s brother. Then…

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  • Raising Arizona (1987)

    Raising Arizona (1987)

    What’s this all about? Raising Arizona tells the story of the ill-fated kidnapping of one of a set of quintuplets. It’s full of wacky characters, like three-time loser stick-up man, H.I. McDunnough…

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  • Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

    Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

    What’s this all about? This is it. The first movie that I remember seeing Nicolas Cage in. PSGM came out when I was 9. I saw it in the theater, and remember…

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