Author: Ed Jefferson
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#22: Deadfall (1994)
My name is Ed and twice a week I watch a Nicolas Cage film and then play the lottery using numbers inspired by that film. I kept trying to write an introduction to this along the lines of ‘Whatever happened to Michael Biehn, eh?’ but I mean the answer is pretty much ‘While he’s never…
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#21: Amos & Andrew (1993)
My name is Ed and twice a week I watch a Nicolas Cage film and then play the lottery using numbers inspired by that film. And so the long tedious years before death pass marginally less slowly. According to my spreadsheet of Nicolas Cage films I am now over a quarter of the way there!…
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#20: Saturday Night Live (1992)
My name is Ed and twice a week I watch a Nicolas Cage film and then play the lottery using numbers inspired by that film. I will do this until I win the lottery, or run out of money at which point I will just jump into the canal instead. But I’m not going to…
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#19: Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)
You know that film where the bloke goes to a Las Vegas casino, gets into financial difficulties, and is then offered a way out which involves the love of his life having to go off with an extremely wealthy man who’s taken a shine to her? No, not Indecent Proposal. The other one with almost…
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#18: Zandalee (1991)
The problem with playing the lottery with numbers you pick inspired by Nicolas Cage films is that you have to find the time to watch two Nicolas Cage films a week — I am a busy man with over three friends and, occasionally, paying work! But I am committed to this now, which is why…
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#17: Wild At Heart (1990)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. Winning The Lottery With Nicolas Cage LYNCH WEEK continues… We’re barely a quarter of the way through Cage’s filmography but I think it’s reasonably safe to say that Wild At Heart is a ‘key text’ in reviewing…
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#16: Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1990)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. I am happy to announce that this is the first ever Winning The Lottery With Nicolas Cage THEME WEEK. That’s right: Strictly speaking, Industrial Symphony No. 1 isn’t a film, but Nicolas Cage is in it, albeit…
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#15: Fire Birds/Wing Of The Apache (1990)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. This time: we reach the 1990s, with the first and possibly only film ever made about how a director wants to kiss a helicopter: Fire Birds! You know when you’re watching film Top Gun, and Tom Cruise…
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#14: Tempo di uccidere/Time to Kill (1989)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. This time: another bloody straight to video effort. Well, unless you happened to live in Italy. Because unusually for something in the canon of Cage, this is an Italian movie, albeit that it was shot in English,…
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#13: Vampire’s Kiss (1989)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. I believe Nicolas Cage performances to constitute magical acts and that watching them in sequence could therefore in itself constitute a magical act that will lead to positive change in my own life. Or at least that’s…