Showing posts with label Season of the Witch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Season of the Witch. Show all posts

Season of the Witch

By now, there are whole genres of bad Nicolas Cage movies — bad action flicks, bad apocalyptic thrillers, bad franchise comic-book capers — and now Season of the Witch seems to invent a new one: the bad wisecracking medieval demonic-possession movie. It's got videogame-from-hell F/X, plus jousting, plus Cage in tangled long hair he seems to have mistakenly put in the washing machine.


In the 14th century, Cage and Ron Perlman play heroes of the Crusades-turned-cynical deserters who wind up shepherding a young woman who may be a witch to the abbey where she's set to stand trial. The worst thing about Season of the Witch is that it's a wagon-wheeled road movie, listless and meandering. The best thing about it is Claire Foy's performance as the seething, caged is-she-a-witch?. Foy, like a Brit Kristen Stewart, has an entrancing sparkle of disdain.

The special effects come mostly at the end, which makes them feel like a payoff for sitting through the film. You've seen it all before, of course, in movies from Clash of the Titans to Legend. In Hollywood, the onslaught of flashy CGI ghoulies knows no season.

Red carpet premiere of ‘Season of the Witch’

NEW YORK: Tending to red carpet duties for his soon-to-be-released movie, Nicolas Cage was on-hand for Relativity Media's premiere of "Season of the Witch" in New York City on Tuesday night.

Held at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, the Oscar winning actor was joined at the event by fellow cast members including Robert Sheehan, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy and Ron Perlman.

Due out in theaters on Friday, the Dominic Sena directed work finds "14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague."

Denying that he took the role only to pay off reported multi-million dollar debt, Cage recently told USA Today, "(Season) I needed to do more than (for) necessity reasons, but because I genuinely connected with the ... material. But there's always that other element too, you know, as a result of what has happened that has been made very public."

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