A lot of people forget what a cultural phenomenon Top Gun was when it came out in 1986, in fact it was so popular that it created a whole industry of cheap crappy knock offs including a 1990 film that had the bright idea to make the movie about helicopters rather than fighter jets. Nevertheless, like all of the other rip offs, it was a box office dud and was forgotten almost immediately. So, join us as we strap on our tactical helmets and fight for ocular dominance as we watch Top Gun’s schlocky, idiot cousin: Fire Birds

A cocky pilot faces personal tragedy in combat so he is sent to an elite flying school where he must put aside his ego and overcome his own insecurities for the betterment of his unit and become one of the best of the best in the US military while falling madly in love with a gorgeous fellow pilot.

Wait, sorry that was Top Gun… actually… that’s the exact same plot of this movie. Never mind

Fire Birds stars Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning screen legend Tommy Lee Jones, Nic’s Guarding Tess nemesis and real life Marine Captain Dale Dye, the gorgeous love interest from Blade Runner and David Lynch’s Dune….and also Ray Finkle AKA Lieutenant Einhorn in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Sean Young and of course, the greatest, that’s right I said he is the greatest, HE IS THE GREATEST helicopter pilot to ever take on the South American Cartel, Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.

As we’ve seen in the past Nicolas Cage has an uncanny ability to literally disappear into a role like few actors are capable but usually if you stop a film like Pig, Adaptation or Dream Scenario you can still easily recognize him. But what happens when you cover all traces of Nicolas Cage with heavy prosthetics, ratchet the insanity up to 11 and turn him into the creepiest villain we’ve ever seen him play? We’ll find out as we take on the 2024 Ari Aster produced A24 horror film Longlegs

A semi-psychic detective is tasked with solving a series of unexplainable murders committed by someone leaving cryptic letters at the scene while seemingly having no connection to the victims. What follows is a creepy lurid decent into the world of the occult, satanic ritual and, of course, murder.

Longlegs stars former professional kiteboarder and It Follows star Maika Monroe, multi-hyphenate star of film, television and theater and Agents of Shield regular Blair Underwood, Orange is the New Black/Justified regular who made her acting debut as that creepy ass kid in David Lynch’s version of Dune Alicia Witt, and of course, a man we’d all unwittingly do the dark bidding of any day of the week, Academy Award winning actor who awakens the Mr. Downstairs in all of us Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.

If you love Nicolas Cage like we do, then this is a great time to be a fan. We’re living in the middle of the third Nicolas Cage renaissance or the Ren-Nic-Sance as we call it. There was the indie darling Ren-Nic-Sance the culminated with Leaving Las Vegas, the action Ren-Nic-Sance that was kicked off by the holy trilogy of The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off and now we’re in what I’d like to call the “I’m Nic Cage and I do whatever I want because I’m Nic Cage” Ren-Nic-Sance. Films like Mandy, Pig and the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent kicked off this era but Nic proved this renaissance was just getting started last year when he starred in the Ari Aster produced horror dramedy Dream Scenario

A typical boring, college professor dad is suddenly thrust into the limelight when thousands of people around the world start inexplicably dreaming of him but what starts as a fun global experience quickly takes a dark turn when the dreams turn to nightmares and he has to navigate the consequences of his new unwanted fame.

Dream Scenario stars “that guy from that thing” character actor Dylan Baker, Emmy award winning actress Julianne Nicholson, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt regular and an actress who can’t help but make most men prematurely ejaculate Dylan Gelula, the Ladies Man himself Tim Meadows, a guy who can’t seem to stop flirting with his cousin Michael Cera and of course, the man of all of our dreams, Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.