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Weekend Movie Forecast: Nic Cage Vs. Farrelly Brothers

Another month, another Nic Cage bravura performance! This time we find our scraggly leading man in the film Driving Angry and boy does this sound like a hoot! Nic Cage plays an hardened felon (of course) with one last shot at redemption (ditto) who must stop a vicious cult of fanatics, the ones who killed his daughter, from killing his granddaughter too. We couldn't make this last line of the summary up if we tried: "Milton must use his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity." Eat your heart out William Shakespeare.In the great tradition of unbelievably awesome movies, the powers that be decided they didn't need the approval of those elitist and snarky critics to tell them how awesome Driving Angry 3D is, so they didn't have any press screenings. You'll just have to go with your gut, the 30 second TV spots and your love of Nic Cage to get your ass in the seat. — Gothamist

Published Feb 25, 2011

Modified Mar 1, 2011

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Click on the film stills for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Drive Angry 3D, Hall Pass, The Over the Hill Band, Public Speaking, Of Gods and Men, Heartbeats, A Good Man, Everything Strange and New and Pink Floyd The Wall.