Category: Film
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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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#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…
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#12: Never on Tuesday (1989)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. The problem with trying to predict lottery numbers by watching every Nicolas Cage film in order is that you have to watch every Nicolas Cage film in order, even if they are films so bad that they…
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#11: Moonstruck (1987)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. Last week made a refreshing change — one film was quite good, the other was fantastic. But neither won me the lottery. And so, I continue, hoping each time that my next leap will be the leap…
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#10: Raising Arizona (1987)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. I know not why I must do this, but a spirit came to me in a dream and told me I must do it, so I do. This time, Nicolas Cage is actually married to someone named…
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#9: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. What would you do if had the chance to travel back in time and fix your mistakes? Would you be able to fix it so you’d have something more fulfilling to do with your existence than watch…
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#8: The Boy In Blue (1986)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films. You know how famously popular film Star Wars has that whole writing bit at the beginning where it goes: “It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first…