Bad Lieutenant

There are perhaps few filmmakers more contradictory than Abel Ferrara. His overlooked 1993 film Body Snatchers provides an unintentional metaphor for his unusual career.

Actor Nicholas Cage has “lost two homes in New Orleans worth a total of $6.8 million in a foreclosure auction Thursday…Birmingham, Ala.-based Regions Bank purchased (one of) Cage’s (homes)…(in New Orleans) French Quarter appraised at $3.5 million for $2.3 million.  For the second home, the Bank “paid $2.2 million for Cage’s 2523 Pataniya Street property …

MJ Documentary? The King of Pop continues to be incredibly lucrative, even in death.  The latest posthumous venture concerns the “…rights to the approximately 80 hours of high-definition, full dress rehearsal footage captured by AEG Entertainment, the company behind Jackson’s concert series.”  It’s the rehearsal footage for the “This Is It” series of 50 live …