Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans News

"BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL -- NEW ORLEANS" -- He's been a REALLY BAD boy! = MY rating: 8 of 10 stars.

The amount of shit that Nicolas Cage is able to pump out when he is wearing a wig is nothing short of incredible.

Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in "Bad Lieutenant." You're familiar with the concept of less is more? Well, Nicolas Cage isn't. In the past 15 years or so, Cage has tended to sleepwalk through dumb action movies, occasionally rousing himself to say something crazy in a high-pitched squeal before he goes back to chasing fireballs or whatever.

This award-winning black comedy from the Coen brothers involves the plight of a debt-ridden salesman who arranges his own wife's kidnapping and the subsequent probe led by pregnant Sheriff Gunderson .

Alright, let's get this out of the way like hundreds of reviews before this one and hundreds after it; Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is not a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 film "Bad Lieutenant" which as a friend of mine pointed out "made 'Taxi Driver' look like 'Alice In Wonderland'." The only thing that these films ...

There goes Nicolas Cage again. Just when Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans almost had us convinced that the man hadn't forgotten how to act, and the prospect of him teaching a teen girl to kill in Kick-Ass had us wondering about a CageA resurgence, he goes and does a movie like this.

Werner Herzog and David Lynch make quite a pair. Herzog, the German-born director of such films as "Fitzcarraldo," "Grizzly Man" and "Rescue Dawn," is a relentless adventurer and the master of external conflict, of man's desire to fling himself recklessly toward the void.

Bad Lieutenant was a critical hit in Toronto, but director Werner Herzog says that doesn't mean much.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Directed by Werner Herzog ABSURDA and Industrial Entertainment Opens December 11, IFC Center Elaborating on his new career as the master of the jive-talking, echt-American, extravagantly titled fauxstraight-to-DVD policier, Werner Herzog contrives to have My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done pick up, more or less, in ...

We're smack dab in the height of "for your consideration" season, which means that award hopefuls the studios have been holding back for months are starting to get released.

Art or not art? That is the question that Nicolas Cage, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, Christoph Waltz, and Peter Sarsgaard ponder in the highly amusing video below, part 1 in a series from The Hollywood Reporter .

"I was a very uptight, very anxious little girl. I had older sisters and brothers, and I had always promised my mother that I was going to do something with my life - and buy her a house and pay her bills," says Eva Mendes.

Werner Herzog 's sardonic, nutso, reimagining of an actual true crime in California perpetrated by a disturbed young man who ran his mother through a sword and then held hostages in his flamingo-decorated house in a police stand off.

Nicolas Cage at his 'Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call New Orleans' screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2009 WireImage Nicolas Cage attends the premiere of 'Knowing' at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on March 9, 2009 in New York City Getty Premium Nicolas Cage visits the 'Late Show with David Letterman' at the Ed ...

U.S. actor Nicolas Cage has been named an international goodwill ambassador for a United Nations anti-drugs and crime agency, a U.N. official said.

Nicolas Cage 's baby mama has sued the "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" star for "mental, physical and emotional abuse" after he threw her out of her house.

It's a big week for New Orleans at the movies. Princess Tiana, in 'The Princess and the Frog.' Not only do we get Disney's long-awaited animated fairy tale " The Princess and the Frog ," which is set here, but we also get Werner Herzog's wildly unhinged cop drama " Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ," which is set here and was shot here.

Nicolas Cage, pictured in 2007, has also been named the U.N.'s goodwill ambassador on drugs and crime.

Even for a movie with such a great deal of drug abuse, there is a lot of crazy stuff that goes on in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - break-dancing souls, imaginary lizards, and dream sequences that turn out to be real.

Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicholas Cage caught Alex by surprise when he saw it at Telluride, and now the film's producers are riding some good buzz to their next project as THR reports that brothers Gabe and Alan Polsky have optioned Jonathan Lethem's novel Gun, With Occasional Music , which follows an ...