Rachel Jane Andelman (@rajandelman) and Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) plow through the Silent Hill games and extended universe so you don't have to. Also, there are jokes and friendship and yeah, of course, the dark corrosion of past sins that are inescapable. But in a fun way! [Produced by Terence Wiggins @theblacknerd]
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Each week Meg and Chris review one of Nicolas Cage's films with a special guest. Each film is analyzed and ranked on a series of metrics all in an effort to Unlock the Cage.
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Shirley MacLaine plays a difficult former first lady, and Nic Cage is the frustrated Secret Service agent assigned to attend to her every whim. It’s a cute 90’s comedy that ends with… a 71 year old woman being kidnapped and buried alive? Liz Jukovsky joins us live in studio (a first for us!) and we all make a lot of intense eye contact while record…
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In this 2005 comedy cringefest, Nic Cage plays a sad sack weather man, who navigates both fast food projectiles and his strained relationships. This movie features Michael Caine playing an American, lots of archery, and far more discussion about camel toe than you’d probably like! Director Keola Racela (who liked this movie far more than we did) jo…
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It’s John Wick meets Babe meets Mandy meets Chef’s Table. 2021’s low budget drama Pig got a lot of hype (and is currently Cage’s best reviewed movie on Rotten Tomatoes EVER), but does it live up to it? We’ve got improviser Will Gianetta back to help us answer deep questions like, “What is a salted baguette?”, “How is this movie influenced by the my…
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Willy's Wonderland with Dan Chapman
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Improvisor Dan Chapman is back to discuss 2021’s Willy’s Wonderland, which pits a totally silent Cage against killer animatronics in a deserted Chuck E. Cheese-esque kids restaurant. Also, there’s way more cleaning montages than you might expect. Plus, one of our hosts gives out their first perfect 10 overall score!…
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Snake Eyes with Rachel Jane Andelman
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Rachel Jane Andelman, comedian, writer and producer of @2MBStudios on twitch, joins us this week to talk about 1998’s Sinise/Cage’s Rashoman-style thriller Snake Eyes. It’s got gratuitous one-shots and POV shots as well as a big ol’ TWIST. Is it stupid? Absolutely. Is it fun? We are divided! Plus, we play Snake Eyes (1998) vs. Snake Eyes (2021) tri…
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Bringing Out the Dead with Rob Lamothe
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Is this a… well written, well made Cage movie? This Scorcese/Schrader movie from 1999 is about an ambulance driver slowly losing his mind. Also, is this movie a Chrismas Carol story? Actor and Comedian Rob LaMothe joins us. Say it with us: “I.B. Bangin’!”By managerscomedy
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Comedian Jeremy Weinreich has dressed up as Kick-Ass every year for the last 8 years so of course he’s our guest this episode. Is this movie - a rare Cage co-star role - a raunchy, irreverent comic book movie? Or is it the tale of three extremely violent LITERAL CHILDREN who struggle with grief and daddy issues? Also, listen as Meg and Chris die in…
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Season of the Witch with Adi Heller
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We’ve finally got fellow Nic Cage completist Adi Heller on our show! This movie has it all: gross plague makeup (so many boils), British people pretending not to be British, an extremely lose grip on European history, anachronistic buddy comedy, demons, demon wolves, possessed priests. Plus, we test our Nic Cage knowledge on Sporcle.…
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It’s our 30th episode, and we watched Lord of War (2005), a dark comedy where Cage is an arms dealer with questionable morals (okay… no morals). Featuring our first international guest, improvisor Josh Budman from Montreal.By managerscomedy
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Happy Mother’s Day, we’re watching a movie with no moms at all. Motorcycle stunt man Johnny Blaze (Cage) made a deal with the Devil to save his dad, it didn’t work out, and now he’s a flaming were-skeleton. He has to fight Wes Bentley, Dirt-dude, Soggy Boy, and Windy Dread Man for some reason. Anyway, this movie is… not as bad as expected? Ben Scur…
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In this week’s movie, Nic Cage, an Irish mobster gone straight, finds out that his daughter has been Taken! Not to be confused with 2012’s Stolen (where he’s a jewelry thief) or 2011’s Drive Angry (where he’s broken out of literal Hell), this is 2014’s Rage. This slog of an action movie bravely presents bad accents, worse wigs, and truly stinky act…
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Our third and final installment from the 90’s Cage action trilogy (AKA the Beige Volvo Trilogy) is non-stop fun, explosions, guitar licks, dumb one-liners, and more than a few problematic bits. Featuring the most jacked Cage to date and possibly the worst accent he’s ever done. Andrew Barlow (@sirbizlow), the host of the Chuckleheads podcast, is th…
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Cage plays a hitman who goes to Bangkok for four last kills before retirement. Things are complicated when he falls in love with a deaf-mute pharmacist and runs afoul of his bosses. It’s a lot more boring than you might think! Featuring: a lot of elephant symbolism, very hot soup, and exactly one (1) cool action sequence with a boat and a motorcycl…
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Cage plays twins in 2002’s meta-comedy Adaptation in arguably one of his best-acted roles ever. We like this movie a lot, but how does it rank against our current top three? Danny Prikazsky (from MTV’s Are You The One) is our guest and unfortunately, we’ve given him full access to the soundboard.By managerscomedy
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans with Shane Taylor
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Werner Herzog and Cage get “edgy” in this 2009 movie about a Bad Lieutenant doing Bad Things. Is this movie cool and weird or just a Herz-slog? Turn on the iguana cam and grab your lucky crack pipe, because we’re digging into it! Featuring our buddy, Shane Taylor.By managerscomedy
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Spiderverse and Cage Freakout Bracket with Alyssa Barrett Jackson
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This already perfect movie didn’t NEED to put Nic Cage as a hard-boiled 1930’s black and white Spider-Man, but it did and we’re all the better for it. Plus, we do a bracket of Cage Freakouts! Featuring Twitch crafting superstar Alyssa Barrett Jackson (twitch.tv/bettermonster).By managerscomedy
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City of Angels with Dan Slimmon and Rachel Kiel
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Let’s all go back to 1998 and have a good cry with City of Angels, the movie you definitely owned the soundtrack for. We have Meg Ryan’s Maggie, a tortured surgeon who rides Chekov’s bike and doesn’t ask a lot of questions about her mysterious new boyfriend. She falls in love with Cage’s Seth, a hirsute yet childlike angel who only has one outfit, …
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Nic Cage plays a Vegas magician that can see 2 minutes into the future. A nuke is about to go off in Los Angeles, and the FBI needs his help! If you can get past the creepy romance between Cage (a smarmy weirdo) and Jessica Biel (20 years younger), it’s not NOT an enjoyable movie. Featuring actress and comedian Renie Rivas - check out her podcast R…
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It’s Valentine’s Day in quarantine, so we’re celebrating by drinking wine and discussing 1987’s Moonstruck with Cage-hater and Cher-devotee Lara Drasin. In this movie, Cher falls in love with a 17 years younger, one-handed, opera loving and tortured Cage. The ensemble cast is great, the one-liners are classic (“Snap out of it!”), and Cage is in rar…
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It Could Happen to You with Lauren Chapman
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Is 1994’s It Could Happen To You a cute romantic comedy about a cop winning the lottery, or a tragedy about a woman who just wants to build a nice life with her partner while he has an emotional affair? 2MBStudios’s Lauren Chapman is Team Rosie Perez and honestly, we’re convinced. Also, did you know that there’s a Bollywood musical based on this mo…
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Teen Titans, Never on Tuesday, Grindhouse + Superman Lives with Nate Lopez
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We’ve got so much to talk about this week! Teen Titans Go: To The Movies is our main event but we also cover a few of Cage’s very weird cameos (fake noses, cinnabar and all), as well as the wild story about the Tim Burton/Kevin Smith/Nic Cage Superman movie that never was. Our guest is the cohost of the 91 Donkey Lane podcast, Nate Lopez.…
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“They brought you into this world. They can take you out.” In 2017’s Mom and Dad, Nic Cage and Selma Blair (watch out for our spinoff podcast “The Blair, Which? Project”) are parents who are struck by a worldwide psychosis that makes them want to literally murder their children. It’s a very stylized horror comedy and dare we say… a bit fun? From a …
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage with Anthony Zonfrelli and Will Van Antwerp
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Nic Cage is the captain of a sinking ship, which is a great metaphor for this 2016 movie that is a disgrace to the true story it tells. Instead of watching this movie, watch the infinitely more compelling monologue about the USS Indianapolis from Jaws. But also listen to this episode, because it’s a fun one. Our guests this week are the cohosts of …
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This charming 1983 low-budget romance far exceeded our expectations and is a new favorite movie of our guest, singer-songwriter Molly Walburn. This episode we discuss scary clown dolls and even scarier chest hair. Plus, Molly performs a lovely cover of “I Melt With You”!By managerscomedy
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We’re revisiting a movie that our guest, Michael Trainor, watched when he was WAY too young. 8MM has a great cast (Gandolfini! Keener! Phoenix! Stormare! REEDUS?) that it wastes on a terrible script about snuff films and hardcore porn.By managerscomedy
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It’s Christmas! The perfect time for a Soulless Capitalist to find out what would happen if he had married his college sweetheart (and became the titular Family Man). Do you want this cake? If so, listen to this episode. Featuring Toonami’s Dana Swanson.By managerscomedy
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We watched this movie so you don’t have to. Featuring improvisor Mike Laderman, a thicc martial arts alien, Tony Jaa outclassing everyone else on screen and a whole bunch of CGI shurikens.By managerscomedy
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Raising Arizona with David Rabinowitz
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter of BlacKkKlansman (and Coen Brothers enthusiast) David Rabinowitz is our guest and we sure are glad to have him. In this movie, Nic Cage and Holly Hunter are two lovable dummies who kidnap a baby. Find out where this movie lands on the Cage Gage of Craziness vs. Good Acting (spoiler: it’s our first entry in this quadr…
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Comedian David Thomas helps us dig into the movie that spawned a million memes. This cult classic movie, about a 80’s businessman who gets bitten by a vampire (or does he?) destroyed the careers of almost everyone involved in it. It’s also Nicolas Cage’s favorite movie he’s ever been in. It’s truly a wild ride.…
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It’s a Very Sam Rockwell Episode of Unlocking the Cage! Chloe Zwiacher from the podcast True Tales of The Illuminati joins us to dig into the realism of Nic Cage’s portrayal of OCD, 2003 mens fashion, con artists with daddy issues, and most importantly, 😍 Sam Rockwell 😍. Or maybe not - this whole episode might just be a con within a con within a co…
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Gone in 60 Seconds with Jenni Stukin
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Let’s go back to the year 2000 for a fun car heist movie and a surprisingly restrained Nic Cage. With our guest, writer/actress Jenni Stukin.By managerscomedy
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The Rock with Liz Jukovsky and Conor Allen
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Welcome to… our episode where we discuss… The Rock. This movie is so big we had to have TWO guests: improvisor Liz Jukovsky and San Francisco native Conor Allen. Listen in and find out what in ZEUS’S BUTTHOLE we rated the movie.By managerscomedy
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Is there a more metal movie than 2018’s Mandy? Our guest, improviser John Serpico, loves this horror-fantasy revenge film and so do we. Will it unseat Face/Off, our previous #1? It’s Halloween, so let’s cover ourselves in blood, break out the extra-long chainsaws, and find out.By managerscomedy
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National Treasure with Will Gianetta
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Cage goes Disney in a treasure hunt through US history. Is it a good movie? If not, is it at least... fun? And what IS a knights templar, anyway? We’ll attempt to answer these questions and more with our guest (the man behind our theme song!), Will Gianetta, who has a pretty solid theory about the connection between this movie and another key piece…
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Screenwriter Brendon Bouzard joins us to chat about the this David Lynch / Nic Cage collab from 1990. It’s just as quirky, sexy, and cartoonishly violent as you’d expect, filled with fatal car accidents, a thin Wizard of Oz allegory, and Nic Cage indulging in his Elvis obsession. Also, we answer the question on everyone’s mind: is this movie the pr…
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A FBI agent switches faces with a terrorist in order to foil a bombing plot. This movie has it all: campy acting, questionable medical procedures, explosions, and secret dystopian prisons. Is this movie as fun as we remember? Was Castor Troy actually… the hero? Improviser and Face/Off superfan Dan Chapman is our guest this week.…
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Leaving Las Vegas with Patrick Gremillion
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This week we’re discussing one of Nic Cage’s most critically acclaimed films (and one he won an Oscar for) - a story about a suicidal alcoholic and a “hooker with a heart of gold”. Does it hold up? Improvisor Patrick Gremillion joins us to find out. Content warning: substance abuse, suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault - this is a dark on…
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Meg and Chris invite guest comedian Laura Merli to review one of Nic Cage's craziest films: The Wicker Man. So get your bear suit and don't forget your reverse bee keeper torture mask!By managerscomedy
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Brock Wilbur and Rachel Jane Andelman, two comedians plowing through the history of Silent Hill video games, finally hit upon the mobile/handheld adventure that is wildly better than one might expect. Silent Hill Zero is a long-haul trucker line-in to why a child gave birth to another child while a different person's entire family committed suicide…
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As Rachel and Brock worked through the first four Silent Hill games, there were a few episodes where time ran out and the ability to dive into the deeper stuff got cut. That's where Whitney Chavis (Chemi_Ro) comes in. Whitney runs the Silent Hill Historical Society and live-streams the games for charity and just generally has a doctorate in this ha…
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Taking a brief jump from the games and their order, Rachel and Brock take a bit of a celebratory lap to talk about the Christophe Gans film adaptation of our favorite damn thing. Is this the episode where they hit their stride? abso-goddamned-lutely. Tune in for a better informed discussion of what percentage of good ideas and terrible nonsense mak…
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Against all odds, Rachel and Brock have reached the fourth installment in the Silent Hill series. First there was a city and then there was a more personal city and then there was the sexual awakening of a mall but now.... oh now... now stuff is complicated in the laundry room! The final Team Silent game is a bizarre mish-mash of good ideas and uh …
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We're into the third game of the Silent Hill series, where Rachel and Brock learn why you don't enter a haunted mall after hours and why you never leave your dad home alone when you're hunting the ghosts of his past. Our exploration of the series hits a fascinating point here where there's just SO MUCH to unpack, we know that this has to be the fir…
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It's a bit tricky to ramp up into processing one of the Most Important Games Of All Time, but that's we try to do here. Basically, Rachel and Brock do a good introduction episode to the story, themes, and spooky stuff from Silent Hill 2. We're really going to have to dig into SH2 more in the future, and we're hoping to have some Real Silent Hill Sp…
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We start at the very beginning, which is a very good place to start. Rachel Jane Andelman and Brock Wilbur begin a journey through all the different Silent Hill games with the very first title on the Playstation. This 1999 adventure proves to be a difficult replay for Brock and a less interesting story than everyone was hoping for. Still, you have …
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