Showing posts with label Nicholas Cage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicholas Cage. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Cult Films: Raising Arizona (1987)



By Jason Haskins

Nicholas Cage plays a guy who loves loves loves to rob convenience stores in the heart of Arizona. After all of his stints going to the big house he ends up falling for one of the officers-a policewoman played by Holly Hunter. Both get married and she quits her job (while he quits his robbing campaign) and find out that their bodies aren't very fertile and they can't bear any children. This isn't so bad, though, because they've just discovered that a local rich businessman, Nathan Arizona, has just had a pack of kids so they jump at the chance to kidnap one of the babies (since there's enough of ‘em to go around in this guy's household) and raise it as their own. However, when some cons break out of jail, too, and come looking for a place to crash at their house as well as some other proverbial poopiness that's certainly in the cards to hit the fan...this couple's predicament goes from bad to worse. Aside from the law after them there's also a crazed bounty hunter, as well as their own convictions getting in the way...of raising little Arizona.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Comic Movie Collection: Ghost Rider (2007)



By Jason Haskins

I always considered Ghost Rider to be a B-list superhero. Not as popular as Spider-Man in the Marvel Universe, but more popular than say...Black Panther. It was no shocker when this movie came out in 2007 as Nicholas Cage lobbied for years to get it made. It never really left the ground until the superhero genre went crazy in the early 2000s. Everyone and their brother (even the Fantastic Four) got their own movie(s). Me? I had collected some Ghost Rider issues, but I wouldn't call myself a big fan. I considered him more of a cool supporting character that would help other characters fight crime. I had really dug some of his darker stuff from the early nineties, but I didn't really have an interest in the movie.