Category: Film

Nice. My name is Ed, and I am desperately trying to win the lottery before I run out of money and have to live in a bin. You might think pinning all your hopes on winning the lottery is stupid, but I have a plan. I am picking the lottery numbers using Nicolas Cage films.…

My name is Ed, and I am still slogging through the slim pickings that are the recent works of Nicolas Cage, because even though a lot of these films are bad, I still ostensibly believe that by picking six numbers connected to them, I will win the National Lottery This time: It’s another Con Air…

My name is Ed and when I have finished watching every film Nicolas Cage has ever been in, I will finally know happiness. If for no other reason than because I will have definitely managed to win the UK National Lottery using numbers picked from one of those films. As the famous saying goes: money…

My name is Ed, and thank God there aren’t many of these films left so I can stop thinking of variations on this introduction. I watch a Nicolas Cage film, I play the lottery with numbers based on that film. Yes? Fine. The opening of Stolen gave me a strong sense of deja vu: either…

My name is Ed, and I am watching Nicolas Cage films then playing the lottery using numbers based on those films until I can find someone who can lift this awful curse. This time: Ghost Rider 2! Expectations were low. It’s unfortunate that the second time Cage chose to make a sequel, it was the…

My name is Ed and in less than 3 months time, I will have seen every film Nicolas Cage has ever made. I’ve been watching two a week, each time choosing 6 numbers based on that film and using them to play the UK National Lottery, which I intend to win, using the mystical energy…

My name is Ed, or at least it used to be until I started watching Nicolas Cage films in an attempt to win the National Lottery. Since then I’ve lost my job, the country voted Brexit, and the Rock and Vin Diesel have fallen out. There are no more certainties. Trespass is a film about…

My name is Ed, and I am trapped in either heaven or hell, depending on your perspective: because I must watch every film Nicolas Cage has ever made. I must do this because it will help me to pick the winning numbers in the National Lottery, for important if dimly remembered reasons. After a fairly…

My name is Ed and my self-inflicted curse is to watch every Nicolas Cage film until I have won the National Lottery (using numbers based on each film), or have run out of Nicolas Cage films, or have bludgeoned myself to death in a fit of despair. “Do you have any regrets, grampa Ed?” asks…

My name is Ed and I play the National Lottery because I believe I know how to win it: watch a Nicolas Cage film, pick 6 numbers from within or without that film, and buy a lottery ticket with those numbers. The thing you learn about Nicolas Cage films when you’ve watched about sixty Nicolas…