{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#58: Outcast\/Left Behind (with Dave White)","description":"This week, Linoleum Knife's Dave White joins us for some rigorous religious scholarship surrounding two of Cage's Godliest movies! First, there's Vic Armstrong's adaptation of the best-selling apocalypse novel Left Behind, starring Cage in one of his sleepiest roles as hotshot airline pilot Rayford Steele, who finds himself flying a plane where half the passengers -- and his co-pilot -- have disappeared thanks to the Rapture. On the one hand, it's the rare Christsploitation movie where it doesn't feel like a feature-length Fox News segment; on the other, it's a cheap, warmed-over Airport riff featuring shoddy effects, wonky pacing, and an all-timer breakdown from American Idol's Jordin Sparks. Then we travel East for Outcast, a Chinese-American-Canadian coproduction in which, much like Season of the Witch, Cage plays one half of a pair of Crusade Knights who quit the church because genocide is a bit too spicy for his taste. Problem is, it's not his movie: it's Hayden Christensen, glowering his way through poorly-shot fight choreography in a limp chase movie set in ancient China. Sure, Cage shows up in the last act with snake-hands and a British accent like a Disneyland Jack Sparrow impersonator, but it's not quite enough to save this slog. Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com\/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro ","author_name":"Travolta\/Cage","author_url":"http:\/\/www.nathanrabin.com","html":"