The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Film critic Dana Stevens is joined by Keith Phipps to spoil this action-packed comedy, starring Nicolas Cage as a struggling actor who is desperate to get back on the A list. Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage, with Tiffany Haddish, Pedro Pascal, and Neil Patrick Harris co-starring. Dana and Keith tell listeners if this self-referential romp went deep enough. Read Dana’s review of the movie. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.1	What's in the box?
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1:03.0	Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic here with another Slate Spoiler Special podcast. This week I'm excited about the spoiler because we have some real
1:11.0	expertise on the topic, and the topic is a complicated one. It is the actor, Nick Cage. We're
1:16.3	going to be talking about the unbearable weight of massive talent, the new Nick Cage movie
1:20.6	in which Nick Cage plays himself in various multiple versions, and it's a kind of a buddy comedy
1:26.3	action thriller, but most of all, I would say it is a meditation of a buddy comedy action thriller but most of all I would say
1:28.8	it is a meditation on the career of this unique actor and here to talk about nick cage is keith
1:34.3	who is a film critic the co-editor of the newsletter the reveal and a writer for here and there
1:40.8	can you name some of the places you've been publishing lately keith oh sure you sure. You can read me a lot at GQ, the Ringer, TV Guide, and Vulture. Those are my main
1:48.9	places, but, you know, I'm elsewhere too. But most of all, you're here right now because you're the
1:52.3	author of a new book called Age of Cage, four decades of Hollywood through one singular career.
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