Season Nine Wrap Show Preview

Calling all Cage aficionados and connoisseurs of cinematic chaos! Face/Off with us one last time this season as we put a bow on Nicolas Cage with our end of season wrap show.

Lend us your ears for a run-down of the eight movies covered this season which were:

• Vampire’s Kiss
• The Rock
• Face/Off
• Snake Eyes
• The Wicker Man
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
• Mandy
• Pig

We discuss our favourites and least favourites and have unfiltered opinions on the good, the bad and the Nicolas Cage. Dan voices which movies almost made the cut (including a certain Marty Scorsese film). Sarah has a quiz to test Dan on his choice of theme this season and finally we chat about what we have in store for season 10 which begins March 24th. 

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome film fans and podcast pals. This is Dan and I'm here to let you know that we have unfortunately reached the end of season 9 and we're just about done with my coming of Cage season. But before we move on to season 10 in a couple of weeks, there is the small matter of our end of season rap show. This is a preview of that show, but the full episode is available to Patreon members on our £3 a month tier where you'll get access to our end of season rap shows for season Season 1 to 9, a minimum of two reviews of brand new movies per month. The season 10 rap show actually marks the 100th piece of Patreon content we've uploaded. And along with nine rap shows, there are also reviews of movies from 2023, 2024, and a few from this year 2025. It's worth mentioning that there is also a brand new tier, which for a few dollars more at £5 a month, you can get the main feed episodes one week early and free of any intro babble like this and all of the other benefits included on the £3 a month and free tiers. Uh if you can't support us on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, you could support us another way. Leave a fivestar review on your podcast player of choice. Super easy on Spotify. Just click the little star icon below the show's artwork. It would be great to get some more reviews on Apple Podcast if you have a spare minute. All this helps get the show seen by people that enjoy movies. And finally, come and follow us on social media and search st page_pod mostly on Instagram and Freds. Finally, all there is to do is thank you. Thank you for listening. We do appreciate and welcome everyone, unless you're a big old bell end, in which case stop it. We we are really excited for season 10. Uh it feels like a bit of a milestone. So, we thought we would do something slightly different. We are doing 10 movies this time. We've chosen the theme together. The theme is flops. We're going to take it in turns to choose the movies. And because Nicholas Cage was my thing, name Sarah's choosing first and she's chosen uh John Carpenter Classic, of course. What else would it be? Can you guess? It's The Thing. Yes. So, join us on March the 24th for season 10. And now it's over to us for the season 9 rap show preview. You know what that sound means, don't you?

(00:01):
That means it's a rap show.
That means it's a beer.
Is this the last time I'm ever going to see the Nicholas in the Cages t-shirt?
Yeah.
Ever?
Of course not.
I'm never taking it off. I told you.
Are you going to You should get it tattooed, aren't you?
Almost. Yes. the chest piece.
Don't give me ideas. You will regret that.
You should get like um uh what you what's it called with the presidents in America carved in the rock? Mount something. Mount Rushmore.
Rushmore. Yeah,
you should get like a Mount Rushmore of different Nick Cage faces.
That's a really good idea. Why are you giving me these ideas? You're going to regret this.
Well, I'm not. You're the one that's going to have the tattoo. I'm not an easily embarrassed person.
Yeah, but you're going to have to look at it.
Like I only look at it when I'm having a bath or whatever and I'm drying myself cuz I always stare at myself intensely when I'm drying my Anyway,
um Nicholas Cage,
we've done a season of Nicholas Cage movies. You are welcome.
Um he's a man so fascinating that there's an entire website dedicated to
Well, if you sign up on this website, you could send your friends anonymous Nicholas Cage facts.

(00:22):
Really? What's the URL?
nick cage.com, funnily enough.
Did he set it up.
Yeah, I believe so. Yeah,
really
as a tax write off project
cuz I would love that if he did.
I think I found it on Reddit.
That's not a vanity project in the same realm as Jeremy Rener's app. This is what I could get behind.
I don't think it's him. I don't think he knows what the internet is.
Um
I think I don't know.
Well, he does cuz he was that meme, wasn't he, for a long time. So,
but I think he's sort of I think he's probably a lot more normal than we realize. when the cameras are off him.
That is a statement.
Besides the weird pets and like the intense method acting and whatever, I don't know.
You think that
maybe he's a totally normal dude?
I am I would bet you my last quid that he's not at all normal. Did you even watch the movies that we covered this season?
Yes, I was there for all eight.
Yeah, all eight. Um, speaking of which, should we do a quick recap of what we did?

(00:43):
Sure. And then we'll talk about some of the high points, some of the low points, of which there are none, by the way, as far as I'm concerned.
Come on.
Masterpiece. Um, yeah, we'll talk about some of the moments that we liked and enjoyed and just a bit of a loosey goosey chat about the season and uh some that nearly made the cut. I think you've prepared a a quiz for me this time.
I've done the um the standard eight questions. Yeah.
Oh, very good.
Of differing difficulty.
Yeah. You did say that you asked your mate earlier these questions and he got none of them correct.
Yeah.
So, you do have a tendency of making them really hard, don't you?
Some are really easy.
Are they?
There's a couple that are super easy.
Right. Well, I look forward to that anyway. What's my What's my prize? Is it a Nicholas Cage tattoo?
Yeah.
Okay. On my chest.
Immediately after the show. I've lined it up.
Oh, have you? Yeah. That's what we're doing this weekend. Is it? Okay. I'll go to work on Monday with just cellophane wrapped around my chest.
Yep. It's fine. I can handle that. Keep me warm with it on a train.
Exactly.
So, we did eight movies.
Mhm.

(01:04):
We started with Vampires Kiss. We followed it up with The Rock. After that, we did Face Off. Then we did Snake Eyes. And then after that, we did The Wicker Man, Bad Lieutenant. I've written many, but it's obviously Mandy. We've done many Nicholas.
We did do many. Yeah,
we did do many.
Many, many, many,
many, many, many cages. And we topped it off with Pig.
Yeah.
So, eight movies. Although it's actually we've actually done 10 Nicholas Cage movies on the main feed in total.
We have. We also did Connor and Dream Scenario in previous seasons.
Both in my seasons.
Yeah. No s***.
I uh I don't I don't think I knew just how much I liked him until this season. I know he was always
even before choosing him as the theme.
Yeah, kind of. Really? Yeah. Like I I always I've always enjoyed enjoyed all of his stuff clearly because you know there's lots that isn't good as we've spoken about. Um but I I think watching this season and and watching him particularly watching him in chronological order as well and seeing the kind of the career the highs the lows and whatever and really digging into it I I think I just wasn't I didn't know that I liked him as much as I did. I thought it'd be an interesting chat.
Yeah.
And I can't really think of an actor that's more interesting than than him.
Yeah. I agree off the top of my head. I mean, nobody's had quite the career that Nick Cage has had.
Yeah.
From his um beginnings as a Nepo baby and then trying to distance himself from the nepotism.
Yeah. Which is which is which was in retrospect was a good move.
Yeah. Yeah. Nobody wants that copa stink on them anymore after Megalopouloolis. Um yeah, I don't know. He's he's certainly unique and I think this season's definitely cemented that theory. I think it was I pat myself on the back. I I think it was a a good choice as a the first time we've ever done an actor for an entire season. We might do this again. We've been speaking about doing something similar one day. Not for a while.
We could obviously do a director or or whatever writers, you know, there's sort of many ways that we could do this, but

(01:25):
I think it's a first experiment for digging into someone's career. I'm quite happy that I chose Gage. I think it was
he's almost the obvious choice in a way.
Oh, sorry.
No. That's not criticism. That's not a dig. But I don't know. Like it makes so much sense because he's done so many projects that you could choose from.
Like his his resume was I mean, how difficult was it picking eight films?
It was pretty difficult. There were a few There were a couple that were immediate lockins and then there are a couple that I was in iring about and there's a couple that were very nearly on the list.
What were the immediate lock lock in then.
Um the immediate lockins were The Rock.
Yeah, of course.
Face Off.
Yeah.
Um I think they were the only two lock immediate lockins really. I think all of the the like I was sort of I mean in on a few of the others. Um
and a couple were first time watches for you as well.
What was the first time watch for me then?
Well, Vampire's Kiss was first time for both of us.
I think that was my only first time watch.
The Wicker Man.
Oh, of course I hadn't seen The Wicker Man. How could I forget? I seen the original though, so feel like I've seen it cuz they're the same movie.
Oh yeah.
Of exactly the same quality.
Indistinguishable. Yeah.

(01:46):
In fact, I think No, I'm not going to say
Robin Hardy is rolling in his grave right now.
Yeah. Um Yeah. Vamp Vampires Kiss was a first time watch and I I was I'm in an aing on that one, I think, because it's it's got obviously got a bit of a reputation.
I knew that speech that he does with the therapists and he does the alphabet thing. Other than that, I didn't really know anything about it. And we started with that cuz that was his earliest film on the roster.
Yeah.
And honestly, we when we watched it, I watched it twice, but after the first time watching it, my jaw was on the floor. I just
Oh, yeah.
having just seen I think one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. And it's it's now my favorite Nicholas Cage performance.
It's not my favorite movie, although I do think it's brilliant. I think it's my favorite performance of his. It's just so so n
I'm trying to think of movies where I've had a similar reaction to watching Vampires Kiss for the first time and the only one that springs to mind is Kevin Smith's Tusk.