'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' Trailer: Nic Cage is the Worst Lt. in This Port of Call
Nicolas Cage gets a lot of guff these days, and not without reason. Look at some of his recent catalog: Knowing? Bangkok Dangerous? National Treasure? National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Next? Ghost Rider? Just reading those titles makes my braintongue feel like it's licked a postage stamp. But those are just poor decisions; they don't necessarily reflect acting ability. I mean, who else can a director seemingly give only the instructions, "act crazy, like how Travolta would" and get whatever this is:
I think this entire movie is Cage's terrible audition reel to take over the role of the Joker.
Calling this Werner Herzog-directed Bad Lieutenant a "remake" of the 1992 Abel Ferrara, Harvey Keitel-starring film isn't an entirely accurate description of what you're going to see in this trailer. This is more like someone dug up a lost promo for an "edgy" USA original serie... / Continue →
Having suitably harassed Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, Werner Herzog moves on to study another alien culture dubious of medicine with Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. Co-directed by Dmitry Vasyukov, the documentary takes a rarely-seen look at the Siberia's Bakhtia, an isolated ... / Continue →
With Seth MacFarlane seemingly putting off his Flintstones reinvention plans as he instead reinvents himself as a host/actor, DreamWorks is taking on the task of primitive family entertainment with The Croods, an animated tale about a neanderthal group led by a rougher-to-look-... / Continue →
