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This week, Nathan and Clint dig back into the classic mold of Travolta/Cage double features -- unfortunately, it's for more late-aughts VOD dreck. First up is Speed Kills, a Dollar Tree Casino riff starring John Travolta as a fictionalized version of speedboat manufacturer and mobbed-up multimillionaire Donald Aronow (here "Ben Aronoff"). It looks and feels cheap, and thrums with all the speed of a rowboat down the ol' Mississipp' -- probably because it was initially conceived as a chintzy VR-cinema experiment.  Then, we get a slight reprieve with A Score to Settle, which features Nic Cage as his millionth aging mob enforcer looking back on his post-prison life and broken relationships with an eye towards revenge. Cage is reliably solid here -- he can play these kinds of roles in his sleep, not that his terminally-insomniac character would allow it -- but the rest of it is a slog. Still, beats Travolta in a motorboat! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

We are back!! Season 2, here we go! Kicking it off for our first new episode is the 1997 Travolta/Cage acting masterclass, Face/Off.Join us as we eat a peach for hours, rate and review, share with your friends and visit us on our socials, Reunited Classic Movie Podcast on Facebook, X (We all know it's still Twitter) and Instagram. 

We're back, baby! After a couple of months of hiatus (and a whole new set of chompers for Nathan), Travolta/Cage is back on the case! We're not the only thing that's returned: not only do we have guest Brock Wilbur (co-author of Postal, Editor in Chief of KC's The Pitch) popping back on the show, we finally see the vaunted return of John Travolta to the pod. Unfortunately, it's for Life on the Line, a too-schmaltzy-by-half ode to electrical line workers that plays out like Yellowstone with fewer horses. Hope you like ponytail beards and white dudes named Pok' Chop! On the Cage side of things, he's slumming it in low-rent supernatural horror with Pay the Ghost, as a lit professor in New York who starts seeing apparitions of his missing son a year after losing him.... at Halloween! (Cue crackling thunder.) It's also pretty dismal, an Insidious riff that lacks any of that film's charm or atmosphere, which leads to a pretty grim double feature all around. Still, we brighten things up with a quick chat about Cage's latest, Renfield -- did we like it? Did we think it made the best use of Cage's lifelong mission to play Count Dracula? Find out! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

When an FBI agent undergoes experimental transplant surgery to assume the identity of the terrorist who murdered his son they will have to take his face… off! ONLY in the Travolta/Cage starring, John Woo directed; Face/Off (1997). Brose/Hannah are joined by Angus/Jazz to break down the whole John Travolta playing Sean Archer acting as Castor Troy whose pretending to be Sean Archer which is, in reality, a Nicolas Cage acting like John Travolta thing. (Then there's the bit where Travolta channels Jim Carrey?) Confused? Don't be. It's all perfectly over the top. Release the doves, run your hand over a loved ones face (it's only as weird as you want to make it), pop on some headphones and listen to our very LATEST free-episode RIGHT NOW!

The gang meet up via Zoom to drink and discuss the Cage / Travolta (or is it Travolta / Cage?) facial-freak-fest FACE/OFF ...and drinks their faces...OFF! Pairings: Darren: Starship Troopers, Alex: Moment By Moment, Dylan: True Lies. Check out more Black Dog Video goodies, movie and swag at www.blackdogvideo.ca

Special guest Clint Worthington—Founder/EIC of The Spool and host of the Travolta/Cage podcast—joins us for the first time, and trust us, we need a Nick Cage expert for this episode. That's right, we're reviewing The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which surprisingly isn't the Will Ashton biopic stuck in development hell. No, this is a high-concept meta comedy action movie starring Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself(?), as he gets roped into a crime caper alongside Pedro Pascal. Later in the show we also review The Bad Guys, the first original DreamWorks Animation movie to hit theaters since (checks notes) Abominable! Show Notes: 00:00:00 – Intro 00:06:15 – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent review 00:37:10 –The Bad Guys review Intro Music: “Thinking” by DESH, delaney. & Hippo Dreams Links: Follow us on Twitter: Jon Negroni, Will Ashton Check out our Cinemaholics Merch! Leave us a voicemail using The “Swell” App. We post new prompts every week or so. Check out our Patreon to support Cinemaholics! Email your feedback to cinemaholicspodcast [at] gmail.com. Connect with Cinemaholics on Facebook and Twitter. Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cinemaholics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We welcome back the great writer and podcaster Nathan Rabin (check out his awesome Weird Al book and his Travolta/Cage podcast) to discuss the now-infamous season 3 premiere! We talk about the heavily advertised special appearance of a pop king, the fallout of allegations that led to the show not on streaming services, and so much more in this ep that makes us all question pink shirts and sanity. Listen now to wish Lisa a happy birthday! Support this podcast and get dozens of bonus episodes by visiting Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and becoming a patron! And please follow the official Twitter, @TalkSimpsonsPod!

This week, the Super Bros. dive into the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man's newly released trailer. The gang also talks about "Into the Spider-Verse," new photos of the Uncharted movie, and Michael Keaton's return as the greatest Batman. Finally, the guys talk about how spoiled kids are these days with almost instant access to any kind of media. Enrique did his homework and reviews the Travolta/Cage masterpiece "Face/Off." Did he enjoy John Woo's American classic? In the second half, the Super Bros. deep dive into the cinematic marvel "American Ninja." How did this movie fare with Enrique. Where did Michael Dudikoff get his career started? Why doesn't Black Star Ninja start killing people with his laser? Will the Super Bros. continue watching the American Ninja series? Stop by, put your feet up, and open your ear holes. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: www.twitter.com/gungfusuperbros www.instagram.com/gungfusuperbrospod Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Leave us a voicemail at www.gungfusuperbros.com or call us on our Google Voice number 661-401-5941 to get a free Gung-Fu Super Bros. Podcast sticker and be part of our show. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Grab a peach and mix yourself a Boulevardier as Gina and Sonia talk about face transplants, face waterfalls, and the deadly Travolta/Cage combo in John Wu's Face/Off.

Listen as Shantz and Chu discuss the 1997 film Face/Off. You'll hear them talk about the fleeting science involved in this movie, how they try to wrap their brains around talking about Travolta/Cage and Cage/Travolta, how the filthy crimes of Castor Troy are sprinkled throughout the movie which include his mustache, murdering a child, sexually harassing office co-workers and parishioners among many others, and exactly how worried Chu is as to the representation of each character's true cardio ability.

Guest Justin Hobson joins us for a wild episode. We talk about board games, food challenges and get weird with GRAB BAG!!!! Justin breaks down his board game he is launching Wasted Wizards and tells us all about what its about. Check out the kickstarter using the link below. Wasted Wizards Kickstarter

Welcome to The Rock! (And a Nora Ephron film too, but we know what you’re really here for.) This week on Travolta/Cage, we finally enter that much-vaunted era of Cage, the Schlocky Action Picture, with one of his greats — Michael Bay’s slick slice of ‘90s milporn cheese The Rock. One of the rare films to crystallize Bay’s particular brand of macho maximalism into something approaching a watchable action film, The Rock lets Cage out of his cage as the twitchy “chemical superfreak” Stanley Goodspeed, forced to team up with the dearly departed Sir Sean Connery to stop Ed Harris from extorting the CIA for money to send relief to veterans’ families. (Remind me why he’s the bad guy again?) On the other side of the spectrum, we’ve got Michael, with Travolta in all his now-portly charm as an irreverent angel who comes to Earth to checks notes help two boring journalists find love? Sure Travolta’s fun, and he gets to dance again, but the rest is a cringe-worthy slog through a coastal New Yorker’s vision of what the Midwest must be like. Still, Travolta in those overalls? Good Heavens! Luckily, along with us on this long road trip is film critic extraordinaire Roxana Hadadi (Pajiba, RogerEbert.com), who helps us break down the ineffable goofiness of Travolta’s charm and Bay’s oddly populist relationship with masculinity and the military. It’s us, we’re the Rocketman! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

This week, Travolta/Cage hurtles inevitably into the over-amped action movie phase of our subjects’ careers, as John Travolta shacks up with Hong Kong action wunderkind Broken Arrow! Smirking and smarming his way into his first all-out villain role, Travolta plays an Air Force bomber pilot who decides to steal some nukes for some easy money, with only the wiry Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis to stop them. There are no doves, but there’s plenty of ‘90s cheese. Ain’t it cool? On the other side of the coin, Nic Cage is up to his usual tricks, playing the tic-heavy Little Junior Brown in Barbet Schroeder’s Kiss of Death, a remake of a 1947 film noir starring David Caruso (trying desperately to kickstart a film career post-NYPD Blue) as an ex-con wrapped up in a convoluted web of New York mob mayhem. Sure, it’s a bevy of that-guy character actors (Michael Rapaport! Stanley Tucci! Philip Baker Hall!), but it’s Cage, crying and gurning as an asthmatic tough-guy with a goatee and white tracksuit, who steals the whole thing out from under everyone. Riding shotgun with us on this wild ride is Fast Company culture writer (and author of American Cheese) Joe Berkowitz, diving through the air guns akimbo and bench-pressing strippers to prove his might. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Are you ready for the palate cleanser? This week on Dish By Dish we talk about the organ snatching antics of Hannibal Episode 7 - and we’re rejoined at the table by EIC of The Spool, cohost of Travolta/Cage and Returning Champion Clint Worthington! On the menu for tonight: we debate what makes Hannibal TV’s best villain, how our friendships are united by cheese, we explore Lecter’s burn book, and wonder why every character’s name sounds like someone from a Charles Dickens novel. All that and a very location-based edition of Choose Your Own Death-venture await you! Hannibal is SERVED!! Never fear - new episodes of Kill By Kill are made available every other Friday! Dish By Dish on off weeks. Have something to say? Reach out on Twitter @killbykillpod or email us: killbykillpod@gmail.com. Follow on IG @killbykillpodcast Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today!

This week, Nathan and Clint go it alone with our latest pairing of Travolta/Cage goodness — mostly so we didn’t have to make a third person suffer the indignity of White Man’s Burden, a post-Pulp Fiction “racial commentary” in which the race/class divide is reversed and white people are on the lower rung of the totem pole. Here, John Travolta, as a poor construction worker living in the ghetto (sporting a… curious blaccent), decides to kidnap his wealthy employer (Harry Belafonte) to get money and revenge. And yup, it’s about as tone-deaf and clunky as that description implies. Funnily enough, Cage is the steady hand this week, going full Normie for It Could Happen To You, reteaming with Honeymoon in Vegas director Andrew Bergman for a cloying but inoffensive tale of New York’s nicest cop (heh) and a down-on-her-luck waitress (played by Bridget Fonda) who both split a $4 million lottery ticket and fall in love along the way. There’s fame, there’s fortune, there’s Rosie Perez trapped in the greedy-shrew role that would take her a decade to recover from: it’s empty calories, but all in good fun! How do these films compare? Which one moves on to whatever nebulous Round 2 we’re doing of this? Listen on and find out! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro Podcast editing by Michael Snydel

The time has come to have an old friend for dinner! That’s right, EIC of The Spool, cohost of Travolta/Cage and Returning Champion Clint Worthington joins Dish By Dish to help us dig into Hannibal episode 7, Entrée! Along the way we talk Tattlecrimes web design issues, what it takes to get the cover of Psychiatrists Weekly, what are grapes hiding and how will it harm us, and we wonder why we don’t judge more serial killers by their looks. Plus, we have a location-based Choose Your Own Death-venture to debate and Patrick decides to change the focus of the podcast at the very end of the episode to snake movies. Also, he’s bad at it… my mis-snake. Never fear - new episodes of Kill By Kill are made available every other Friday! Dish By Dish on off weeks. Have something to say? Reach out on Twitter @killbykillpod or email us: killbykillpod@gmail.com. Follow on IG @killbykillpodcast Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today!

What happens when Nic Cage does a favor for his first-time filmmaker brother Chris Coppola, but derails it with a performance so bizarre it makes Vampire’s Kiss look like Leaving Las Vegas? Well, this week on the podcast, Nathan and Clint find out with the help of guest and friend of the show Scout Tafoya (RogerEbert.com), as we talk about Deadfall and Look Who’s Talking Now! Two films at widely disparate ends of the Travolta/Cage spectrum, Deadfall and Look Who’s Talking Now feel like adventures at different points in the same gonzo dimension. In Deadfall, we follow a con man (a bland Michael Biehn) roped into grifts within grifts thanks to his unscrupulous uncle (James Coburn) and Cage’s Eddie King, a figure of cosmic weirdness and inconcievable line deliveries. And then there’s Look Who’s Talking Now, the execrable final entry in the Look Who’s Talking series, where the focus shifts off the kids (who are too old to have Bruce Willis and Roseanne in their brains) and onto a pair of dogs (Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton) living out the Lady and the Tramp dream while Travolta and Kirstie Alley’s marriage collapses in real time. It’s cuckoo bananas in an entirely disparate orbit from Deadfall, and yet we gab about it all the same. Take a listen! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

This week, The Pitch's Abby Olcese throws on a vest and electric guitar to join us for a couple Travolta/Cage obscurities filled with both ironic and unironic pleasures! First, there's Shout, the rockin-est, rollin-est, bone-deep silliest (not to mention white savioury) '50s drama, in which a cool-as-ice music teacher played by Travolta, who brings a little slice of funk to a small-town boys academy. A James Dean lookalike pines after a young Heather Graham! Kids dance erotically at the first bars of a blues-y tune! Then, there's the deeply underrated Red Rock West, John Dahl's gritty, atmospheric Western neo-noir starring Nic Cage as a down-and-out drifter drawn into a plot involving murder, mistaken identity, and Dennis Hopper wearing a bolo tie. It's a thrilling little potboiler, well worth your time (and now available on Peacock!) Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

The blogger/author returns to open up about dealing with the strain of being fired, perpetually broke and in debt while trying to provide for his family. More About Our Guest  www.NathanRabin.com Check out his podcast Travolta/Cage www.NathanRabin.com/TravoltaCage and buy his books www.NathanRabin.com/shop Support Our Sponsors! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling.  To get a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental  Must be 18. This episode is sponsored by  Archer & Olive notebooks/planners. For 10% off go to www.ArcherandOlive.com/mental and use offer code HAPPY This episode is sponsored by GravityBlanket.  For 20% off go to www.GravityBlankets.com and use offer code MENTAL WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review.  It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media.   It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod  -------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal  or Zelle (make payment to mentalpod@gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services ---------------------------------------------------

In a strange twist of fate, this week’s Travolta/Cage sees our heroes embarking on two decidedly different romances with musical megastars — but the difference is, one won two Oscars and the other was nominated for five Razzies! With the help of special guest Karina Longworth (You Must Remember This), Nathan and Clint explore the strange double feature of Two of a Kind, John Travolta’s flop-tastic reunion with Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John, and Moonstruck, John Patrick Shanley’s charming ode to love, fate, and talking with your hands a lot starring Nicolas Cage and Cher (in an Oscar-winning role). Together, we ask the big questions, like: why wasn’t Two of a Kind a musical? Why is Heaven so understaffed? And what exactly happens when the moon hits your eye like a big a-pizza pie? So strap on your headbands, schnap out of it and let us whisk you away to a land of amore, for both good and ill. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Greetings, fellow quarantiners! Hope you’re all staying safe and isolated as COVID-19 ravages the United States. Over here at Travolta/Cage, we’ve got another terrible affliction to deal with — disco fever! For this week’s episode, podcaster Sean Conroy (Sean Conroy Gets Happier) joins us to talk about Staying Alive and Raising Arizona. Staying Alive, of course, is the seven-years-too-late sequel to Saturday Night Fever, in which Travolta’s Tony Manero swaps out disco as an escape for a career in Broadway dancing (which, naturally, called for the talents of writer/director Sylvester Stallone). Strip away the grittiness, good dancing, and scintillating interpersonal drama for disco diapers and creaky love-triangle melodrama and what do you get? Well… this. Raising Arizona, on the other hand, sees Nic Cage transitioning from hunky weirdo in weepy melodramas to his beautiful-butterfly stage of madman histrionics, teaming up with the Coen brothers for their second(!) film. It’s a madcap Tex Avery-inspired crime comedy about a young couple (Cage and the ever-game Holly Hunter) stealing a baby so they can have a family of their own, and it’s full of all kinds of Coenesque whimsy. What did we think of these decidedly disparate films? Take a listen and find out! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Is English Dave Raven or is Raven English Dave? That is what we ponder as we discuss the Travolta / Cage 90's body swap action movie. Keep It Nerdie

Is English Dave Raven or is Raven English Dave? That is what we ponder as we discuss the Travolta / Cage 90's body swap action movie. Keep It Nerdie

Patrick and Adam Riske watch 10 DTV movies from some of their favorite actors.Download this episode here. (63.9 MB)Listen to F This Movie! on Spotify and on Stitcher.Also discussed this episode: VFW (2020), Horse Girl (2020), Gemini Man (2019), Nighthawks (1981), Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019), After Midnight (2020), Eat Brains Love (2020), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), City of Angels (1998)

We finally start to play the real hits over on Travolta/Cage this week, as The Flop House’s Dan McCoy joins us to talk about two great films in our respective subjects’ careers: the Brian De Palma thriller Blow Out and Francis Ford Coppola’s romantic fantasy Peggy Sue Got Married! In Blow Out, we get to see Travolta shuck his overwrought pretty-boy character studies to play the dogged lead of a tight-knit Hitchcockian thriller. It’s a great showcase for what Travolta can do when he’s not tasked with dancing or smirking; he’s haunted and intense as a sound designer who happens upon a political assassination and tries to unravel the mystery surrounding it. De Palma’s never been more stylish, and Travolta’s unique brand of nose-to-the-ground competence porn is beautifully suited to it. And then there’s Peggy Sue Got Married, a charming little movie about the road not taken starring Kathleen Turner as a middle-aged woman suddenly transported back to her high school life with the knowledge of the disappointing life she’d lead. Nic Cage is there too, in the rare case where his Big Bold Choices actively hinder the movie; with big, fake chompers and a voice like Pokey from Gumby, it’s a make-or-break performance that may have driven Turner crazy during shooting, but is unforgettable for a whole different set of reasons. Which one is better? Take a listen and find out what we thought! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

This week on Travolta/Cage, We Hate Movies’ Andrew Jupin clears the dance floor to help Nathan and Clint through a groovy double feature of Saturday Night Fever and Racing with the Moon! In Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta grooves and twists his hips through his first big superstar role as Tony Manero, a blustering Noo Yawker who dreams of stardom and only gets a taste of it when he dances at the local nightclub. Everyone knows this one for its banging Bee Gees soundtrack and its groovin’ reinvigoration of disco as a trend, but it’s easy to forget that it’s also a grim, gritty take on ‘70s New York and the perils of toxic masculinity. On the other hand, we’ve got Richard Benjamin’s Racing With the Moon, where Nic Cage plays third fiddle to Sean Penn and Elizabeth McGovern, the reckless best friend of Penn who gets the both of them into trouble as they spent their final weeks before leaving for war in small-town 1940s America. It’s a shockingly sweet and layered picture, with Cage eking out as much pathos as he can out of a character who, in any other movie, would have a big stinking ‘I’m Going to Die in the Second Act to Motivate the Protagonist’ sign on his back. It’s an interesting double feature to be sure — one film is that star’s big breakout, the other a meaty supporting role in a pleasant, but otherwise obscure melodrama. But between both film’s tales of misspent youth (and a curious abortion subplot that crops up in each of them), there’s quite a lot to chew on between this pair of oft-underappreciated classics. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

This week we watched the Travolta/Cage masterpiece FACE/OFF! We breakdown the 'real science', whose boning who and just what happened with the genitals. This movie is insane, so insane it might just be Shakespearean.

Welcome to episode two of Travolta/Cage! This week, film and TV critic extraordinaire Noel Murray (AV Club, The Dissolve) joins us to discuss the next two films in Travolta and Cage’s oeuvre. First up is 1976’s The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, a surprisingly effective TV weepie-of-the-week starring Travolta as Tod Lubitch, a boy with no immune system who has to live his life in — you guessed it — a plastic bubble. Will he find love with the relatable girl-next-door (Glynnis O’Connor)? Will he escape his life of isolation? And most importantly, will he finally get to jerk off in private? Then, of course, there’s Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s avant-garde followup to The Outsiders, a film that behaves like Ponyboy’s pretentious French cousin. While the bulk of the story follows teenage ruffian Ricky-James (Matt Dillon) flirting with teenage delinquency to impress his mysterious older brother Motorcycle Boy (sorry, The Motorcycle Boy) (Mickey Rourke), Nic Cage shows up in his uncles’ movie as the surprisingly perceptive gang member Smokey. It’s moody and beautifully filmed and sports a killer Stewart Copeland score, but can it keep all that atmosphere up for two hours? Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Hail, friends, and welcome to the first episode of Travolta/Cage! Think of it as Happy Cast, renewed and refreshed, with a groovy new purpose! It’s the same old Nathan and Clint, but this time, we’re going through the filmographies of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage — two of the strangest, most fascinating pop culture figures, warts and all — in chronological order. For our premier episode, we bring on ‘80s pop culture expert Scott Weinberg (‘80s All Over, now Science vs. Fiction) to help us talk about two of Travolta and Cage’s first big movie breakouts: 1976’s Carrie and 1983’s Valley Girl. In the former, we’ve got Travolta as pervy, evil teen Billy Nolan in Brian De Palma’s lurid horror classic; in the latter, we’ve got chiclet-toothed Nic Cage as a punky hunkasaurus chasing Deborah Foreman’s titular valley girl in Martha Coolidge’s surprisingly sweet and nuanced teen sex comedy. Who wins out? Listen and learn, my sweets! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro

Travolta/Cage face swapping and over acting for the right to take home someone else’s kid. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Equally revered and reviled, Face/Off is emblematic of the overblown but undercooked action films that were dominating theaters in the late 90s. Director John Woo was already a legend back in Hong Kong, but he never had as much luck with his American-made films. This is definitely the best of that bunch, but one of the running themes in this episode is why so much of his style gets lost in the translation. There's also the Travolta/Cage of it all. Action movies aren't the only thing that's changed in the two decades since this was released. Our attitude towards these leading man has also shifted pretty dramatically. This represents a pretty interesting point in both of their careers and it's difficult not to let some of the present day baggage cast a shadow over their work here. Topics include: the two A-listers initially approached to star in this, why the original plan to set this in the future would have solved 80% of this story's logic issues, the much simpler way to get Pollux to talk, some baffling studio notes that Woo wisely ignored, why the action scenes in the back-half are beautiful but uninvolving, the confusing alternate ending, and much much more!  iTunes / Stitcher / RSS / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram About The Show

The Baller Lifestyle Podcast review of the 1997 Travolta Cage face switching classic - FACE OFF. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-baller-lifestyle-podcast/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

NOBODY PUTS CAGE IN A CAGE #3! Äntligen är det här, det tredje och sista avsnittet i Pod Hards högexplosiva Nicolas Cage-tema. Jonas Högberg och Anders Hultqvist ser Face/Off och njuter av att se både Nicolas Cage och John Travolta spela Nicolas Cage. Cage har moppemustasch, lever ett förtappat Nicolas Cage-liv, ser ut som en biff i ansiktet och tar körflickor på rumpan. Travolta/Cage (eller är det Cage/Travolta?) är trött, tittar på naturfilm i finkan, trippar och pratar om att avlägsna ansikten, slåss till tonerna av "Somewhere over the rainbow" och har ett Halloween-spektakel till tonårsdotter som - puh - blir "normal" i slutet av filmen. Dessutom: mer kaotisk klippning a la John Woo, ett Sylvester Stallone-ansikte, Bröderna Marx-versionen av The Mexican Standoff, en bra båtjakt och ett pinsamt erkännande från Anders. "You know, I could eat a peach for hours."

What better way to follow up a shot of Con Air than with a Face/Off chaser? We revisit the ridiculous 90’s Travolta/Cage sci-fi action thriller where they swap faces, and spend way too much time talking about sex and ...