Review: SEASON OF THE WITCH

There is something about Nicholas Cage that keeps me going to see his movies regardless of how bad they are. This one was particularly bad; generally it wouldn’t be a problem in a Nick Cage movie but somehow not even his absurd levels of comic intensity could save this train wreck. I blame the scrip and the execution but surprisingly not the acting. When Nick Cage is bad he can be bad enough to make it good; here his performance is good enough that it looks serious.  Not a good sign when you expecting a great bad movie.

 

Review: KNOWING

What if you knew the world is going to end and there was nothing you could do about it?

Knowing goes where no end of the world film has ever gone before, it does not try to explain every event in the movie in a deceptively logical fashion. Very few movies choose this path, afraid they will not be taken seriously. When you put your mind to it, you notice a few things: A) most popcorn movies have preposterous plots that need not to be taken seriously, B) explanation in films take up time that might be used for more important things, such as character development, and C) I really do not go to see movies so I can learn how the Earth’s magnetic sphere works.