Nicolas Cage isn't nuts enough in the fitfully demented Prisoners Of the Ghostland

Post-apocalyptic action film lets the actor say overwrought things but isn’t campy enough to be camp.

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★★★☆☆ Sion Sono’s debut film in the English language is an East-meets-West genre medley centred on the hero monomyth, and crucially the samurai m...

Sion Sono's East-meets-West circus is mid-tier mayhem that 100% plays into the Meme of Cage. Read Clint Worthington's review.

See Nic Cage wear a leather suit that threatens to blow him up in this exhausting meta midnight movie. Or better yet, don't.

Nicolas Cage is a bank robber with his testicles wired to explosives in Sion Sono's post-apocalyptic samurai Western. Read the Empire review.

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Nicolas Cage stars in Japanese genre auteur Sion Sono's post-apocalyptic action thriller 'Prisoners of the Ghostland'

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No movie with Nicolas Cage, directed by the wonderfully weird Japanese director Sion Sono, should be this taxing, drawn out, and plainly boring.

Every film-lover has her or his idea of what constitutes “out there,” and what level of gonzo one will tolerate in that regard. Some prefer the excesses ...

Will Sion Sono and Nicolas Cage prove to be the pulpy dream team that genre fans have been anticipating?

The film is a profound disappointment in part because it feels so overdetermined to live up to Sono and Cage’s respective brands.

Nic Cage stars in Sion Sono's intensely weird genre mashup, which takes inspiration from Escape From New York. Read our Prisoners of the Ghostland review.

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Prisoners of the Ghostland is an overstuffed, manic, exhausting piece of instant movie-meme catnip

Working in English for the first time, Japanese auteur Sion Sono's greatness gets lost in the translation

Prisoners of Ghostland opens with Hero (Nicolas Cage) and his unhinged friend Psycho (Nick Cassavettes) robbing a bank. Both men are caught but sent in two d...

The combination of Nicolas Cage and Sion Sono is so weird, fans of either eccentric may not even mind how bad the movie is.

In Japanese director Sion Sono’s eye-popping postapocalyptic Western-samurai-sci-fi epic, the actor gets to play hero, villain, and clown.

Prisoners of the Ghostland isn't going to be for everyone, but if you're in, then strap in for one hell of a ride.