Let’s rage with Nic Cage

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With apologies to Smashing Pumpkins: Regardless of all his rage, I’m nonetheless only a fan of the Cage.

Oscar-winning performing machine has , which is all the time excellent news – the dude is busy and again to being unhinged, which is simply how we like him. This week’s viewing recs additionally embody a throwback to the area race of the Nineteen Sixties with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, plus it’s time to speak cartoons! Not just like the previous “Mister T” present, “Voltron” or “Snorks,” however issues that as we speak’s youngsters dig – and perhaps you’ll, too.

Now on to the good things:

Watch C-Tates and ScarJo plan a pretend lunar touchdown in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’

Ever since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, there have been and legends surrounding the long-lasting Apollo 11 mission. There’s even a idea that “directed” the moon touchdown. The brand new retro rom-com “Fly Me to the Moon” performs with all these concepts, with an alt-history narrative starring Tatum because the NASA man answerable for the launch and Johansson as a advertising specialist employed to stage a sexier faux moon touchdown.

Tatum informed my colleague Patrick Ryan that it’s “only a enjoyable approach” to revisit the milestone, and Johansson says individuals are nonetheless fascinated by “the best achievement of mankind” as a result of “it simply appears completely unimaginable” in discussing the film’s box-office potential and what it means to each actors.

Add ‘Longlegs’ to your Nicolas Cage greatest-hits record

You’re going to want to take lengthy bathe this weekend – not simply due to the extreme warmth however after seeing the deliciously freaky horror flick “Longlegs.” Directed by Osgood Perkins (son of “Psycho” legend Anthony Perkins), it’s a throwback to “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Zodiac,” with a smidge of the supernatural, the place Cage performs a satanic serial killer haunting a younger FBI agent (Maika Monroe). It’s one in all his most unhinged roles ever, which is saying one thing – Cage is a grasp of these! And I’ve , with selection cuts like “Face/Off,” “Mandy” and “Wild at Coronary heart.”

In the event you dig a extra restrained Cage, nevertheless, I’d counsel streaming his Oscar-winning flip in “Leaving Las Vegas,” or a triple-feature binge of the A-lister’s ’90s motion peak with “The Rock,” “Con Air” and “Snake Eyes,” or his brilliantly light efficiency in “.”

Stream ‘Bluey,’ ‘Puffin Rock’ and extra with the younger ones

Whereas my daughter may be very a lot immersed in her tween part, I can nonetheless keep in mind the reveals we watched collectively when she was a toddler: “The Furchester Lodge,” “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” “Yo Gabba Gabba!” By no means “Caillou,” although. That was the worst. For these with their very own little ones now, TV critic Kelly Lawler has put collectively , together with Disney+’s “Bluey” (clearly) and Netflix’s “Puffin Rock.” (She additionally has a bunch to keep away from, and “Caillou” makes an look there. Good to see not all the things’s modified.)

And should you missed these final week, additionally try Kelly’s for households and her essay about .

Much more goodness to take a look at!

• This week, we’re , who died at 75. I liked her as a child reverse Robin Williams in “Popeye” – there’ll by no means be an Olive Oyl like hers – however you actually noticed her expertise and coronary heart in “The Shining,” hiding from a daunting Jack Nicholson in one in all cinema’s all-time scenes.

• The brand new face of Disney’s “Descendants” franchise: 19-year-old , an actress, singer and TikTok star who’s “prepared for my Marvel film.”

• Trailers for the upcoming “Captain America: Courageous New World” movie and Disney+ sequence “Agatha All Alongside” premiered this week. Earlier than Comedian-Con brings a flurry of superhero information subsequent weekend, right here’s .

• Love sport reveals? The over time.

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