Many of the 30-plus movies he made during this period are not worth your time they’re low-rent paycheck gigs that have little to recommend them beyond Cage’s signature commitment. By that point, he already had one foot in the limited release/direct-to-video world - which is where he stayed for most of the 10 years that followed, with occasional forays into arthouse cinema. But the last time a Cage movie was backed by a substantial, wide-release advertising campaign was Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in 2012.

Yes, the recent Pig made it to nearly 600 theaters, he’s done voice-over for some bona fide theatrical hits, and technically, Left Behind briefly appeared on 1800 screens back in 2014.

However, the meta-comedy Massive Talent, in which Cage plays himself as a desperate actor angling for a comeback, is his first major live-action wide release as a top-billed star in a decade. This isn’t the case in 2021, he starred in three, while in 2019, he toplined half a dozen. Extremely powerful, it will stay with the reader long after the reading is finished.The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent might feel to some casual viewers like the first real Nicolas Cage movie in a long while. Some parts of the narrative are (necessarily) reconstructed, but in general the work is faithful to the facts of history. Toward the end of the book he has the chance to take revenge on the person most responsible for his mother's fate, but decides it would be a more fitting tribute to her if he did without his revenge. A successful journalist in the US, he has written a marvelous account of some unsettling and depressing events. Gage is, in fact, Eleni's only son and he managed to escape to America just before the Greek national armies managed to rid the northern mountains of the Communists. Nicholas Gage reports here on what he found out about exactly what happened in that doomed village and what happened to Eleni. The Communists manage to get other villagers to snitch on her and they end up torturing and murdering her in a ravine along with a few other villagers. The story centers on Eleni Gatzoyiannis, who attempts to escape with her children, more for their sakes than her own. Concretely, it is about how Communist guerrillas in Epirus took over the village of Lia, reduced the once sturdy villagers to treacherous, starving, vermin-infested semi-savages, used them for slave labor, and finally murdered many of them.

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