A review by carrienation76
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career by Keith Phipps

2.0

How in the name of Zeus' butthold did I give up five hours of my precious life to this book? As an appendix, the author lists out every Nic Cage movie and his personal rating out of 4 stars. If I had known Phipps considered The Rock to be three stars, I would have chucked this book before reading. According to my spreadsheet, I have watched 93 movies starring Nicolas Cage in my lifetime. I've even made plans to watch the original cut of Dying of the Light in the UCLA archives. This book is a mess. The amount of space taken up by Francis Ford Coppola commentary alone is embarrassing. Uggggggh. Phipps does a disservice to the last decade of Cage's career by cramming all the VOD releases into a lazy, rushed chapter. He acknowledges that there are some great performances amongst them, but can't be bothered to reference any with even fake gusto. Phipps considers 2014's Rage to be Cage's worst film. I'm not saying Rage is good... but his worst film is Fire Birds, obviously. It's a sexist, racist embarrassment. Yet he gave it 2 stars. My only bit of relief is knowing I didn't waste money on this book.