Nicolas Cage – Stream On Demand

‘Pig’ – A Nicolas Cage odyssey on Hulu and Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, foodie film, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Cage plays a hermit who goes searching for his best friend, a truffle-hunting pig, in this touching American indie drama.

Aaron Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Nicolas Cage star in the superhero movie by Matthew Vaughn

Last chance: ‘Kick-Ass’ – wicked superhero fun on Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Last chance, satire, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 01/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

This darkly satirical superhero movie, based on the uber-violent comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., tosses a high school teenager into a crime-fighting culture he isn’t the least bit prepared for.

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta ‘Face/Off’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Woo, the action maestro of Hong Kong cinema, is working at the top of his game in this double-barreled revenge thriller built around an absurd premise, outsized emotions, and one show-stopping action set-piece after another.

Nicolas Cage in Andrew Niccol's 'Lord of War'

Nicolas Cage is the ‘Lord of War’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, satire, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 03/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?” The opening line of Andrew Niccol’s Lord of War (2005) captures the film in a phrase: it’s serious, it’s sardonic, and it has both a […]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Oliver Stone's "Snowden."

Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/02/2020 Sean Axmaker

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward Snowden in Snowden (2016), Oliver Stone’s drama about the controversial NSA whistleblower. Framed by the famous meeting in a Hong Kong hotel room where Snowden (played with modest integrity by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shared top-secret files revealing illegal surveillance programs with journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and documentarian Laura Poitras […]

‘Vampire’s Kiss’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/2019 Sean Axmaker

Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast in the devious black comedy Vampire’s Kiss (1989) as a New York literary agent whose latest one night stand lands him in bed with vampire Jennifer Beals, who takes a big, bloody bite out of his identity. The emotionally unstable executive develops an aversion to sunlight, a fear of crosses, […]

Nicolas Cage stars in the surreal sequel directed by Werner Herzog

‘Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 06/07/2018 Sean Axmaker

Neither remake nor sequel in any conventional sense of the terms, Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009) takes the basic premise out of the Abel Ferrara universe of guilt and redemption and drops it into post-Katrina New Orleans and the Herzog world of indifferent and unforgiving nature. It really is a […]

Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe star in the squalid pulp crime drama directed by Paul Schrader

‘Dog Eat Dog’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies 01/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Dog Eat Dog (2016) – Paul Schrader brings his intelligence to a squalid pulp crime drama of small-time thugs who impulses and instincts manage to screw up what should be a simple job. Nicolas Cage is Troy, the ostensible ringleader of the trio, recently paroled and celebrating his release at a strip club with fellow […]