Nicolas Cage plays himself (or a slightly exaggerated version of himself) in the upcoming action/comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which hits theaters in April.

A young father is charged for murder and must prove his innocence through recalling a very twisted and dark night of events involving a couple played by Nicolas Cage and Kadee Strickland in the upcoming thriller Grand Isle, which also co-stars Kelsey Grammar.

As if flying into a Class 6 storm with no pilots wasn’t bad enough, flight attendant Teri Halloran also has to deal with a psychotic serial killer who is loose on her plane.

In honor of his 50th birthday, we count down the top ten greatest moments from the one and only Nicolas Cage.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about the premier of Agents of SHIELD, the enduring awesomeness of Con Air, the awful ending of Dexter, the grimness of Need for Speed, the Emmy awards and much more.

This month we’re featuring the best of action ballads/love songs, what with Valentine’s Day and what have you, and to kick things off, the theme from Con Air, How Do I Live? by Trisha Yearwood, probably not something a lot of the cons in that movie would listen to.

The latest from Luc Besson’s Europa action factory, Lockout finds Guy Pearce doing his best Kurt Russell impression on a mission to rescue the President’s daughter from an orbiting space prison.

The key ingredient of any good action movie is an awesome death for the main villain. Getting comeuppance for all the shit they’ve put our hero through over the course of the movie is usually the highlight of the movie and we’re giving our picks for the ten most elaborate, gruesome and unusual deaths of villains in action movie history