Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Feb. 23-Mar. 1: Can Nicolas Cage drive out of hell on a hall pass?

Oh, yes, it’s a slack week at the movies—only two movies are opening. That said—and in full knowledge of the fact that I’m setting myself up for a huge letdown—one of those, Drive Angry 3D, is the first mainstream offering of 2011 I’ve actually been looking forward to. Come on, breathes there a fan of trash cinema who can resist the prospect of Nicolas Cage breaking out of hell in an effort to redeem himself by saving his infant grandchild from serving as the centerpiece of a human sacrifice by a cult? If so, you’re made of sterner stuff than I am.

Review of Women Beware Women

The Warren Wilson audience often responded with laugher at the moments of highest tragedy, especially at the end when more corpses littered the stage than even Hamlet can boast. Such laughter is not inappropriate.

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