#Iver William Jallah

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The Lord Cage’s Prayer:

Our Father, which art in Snake Eyes, Nicolas be thy name; thy Face/Off come; thy Con-Air be done, on earth as it is in Deadfall. Give us this day our daily Ghost Rider. And forgive him for Trespass, as we forgave him for Windtalkers. And lead us not into Adaptation; but deliver us from The Rock. For thine is the Wicker Man, the National Treasure, for ever and ever.

Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Southern Drawls” with a minor in “Playing Footsie”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Supercult Saint Nic Cage in Grand Isle!

Young father, newlywed, and failing entrepreneur Buddy works as a freelance handyman to make ends meet. But when he takes a job fixing the fence of Walker, a ‘cagey’ ex-Marine, and his femme fatale wife Fancy, the job gets a little complicated. Soon a hurricane turns the simple house call into a tense sleepover and Buddy is caught in the middle of a deadly feud complete with tense conversations loaded with sexual innuendo and the occasional knife fight. So, you know. A normal Nic Cage film.

Is the house in Hell or something? That’s Cage’s character’s house from the film, right? So that would mean Nicolas Cage is the Lord of Hell!

That guy on the bottom of that box art better serpentine or something. No way Nic Cage is going to miss a straight shot at that distance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psohekS8TYo

KaDee Strickland who plays the seductive and vengeful housewife Fancy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKXtv2_IaCY

“Hey there, want to paint my fence?” ; )

This is the most American image ever. Avert your gaze lest ye be inspired to shit freedom and piss rock and roll.

Working from home is tough, guys. Don’t judge.

I feel like Luke Benward, who played Buddy, knew exactly what he was getting into with this film.

“What do you think? Do these shoes match this dress? Be honest.”

“Eeeyup. That’s a broken fence alright.”

Quite a restrained performance from Cage this time around.

This girl’s a good actor. If Nic Cage gagged and pointed a gun at me I’d be so star struck I’d wet myself.

Released in 2019, Grand Isle is the latest and greatest Nic Cage film released to date. With award winning actor Kelsey Grammer shoring up the cast as Detective Jones and direction from Stephen S. Campanelli, a relatively new director but an amazing Camera Operator on similar dramas like Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it’s hard to imagine this movie being terrible. Crazy? Yes. Hilarious? Absolutely. After all, this is a Nic Cage film. We watch Nic Cage films for the same reason most people watch NASCAR: just in case something goes horribly wrong.

But it’s fine. There are no unscripted Cage-ian freak outs. No face meltingly insane acting extravaganzas. There’s some typically bizarre delivery and some embarrassingly bad Louisiana accents, but that’s about it. Everyone plays it by the script… which is exactly the problem. Grand Isle is written by Rich Ronat and Iver William Jallah who have fewer combined writing credits to their names than Nicolas Cage has balls in his pants. Their screenplay, which was originally called “Fancy, Buddy, and Mr. Walter”, evolved into a brisk 97-minute-long film with all the elements of a respectable Southern thriller. It’s campy, violent, and titillating, all good ingredients for a classic Supercult screening but it somehow also manages to be formulaic, trite, predictable, and just plane boring. Even Nicolas Cage seems to be sleepwalking through this one, which is a shame because he’s made worse plots into cult sensations in the past. Perhaps even Nicholas Mage himself can’t conjure enough life into this lifeless excuse for a screenplay.

Even so, Grand Isle will inevitably become a notorious film in the Nic Cage pantheon. For one thing it’s the first collaboration between Cage and Kelsey Grammer, but it’s also Cage’s lowest grossing film and one of only two films in his 40 year and over 100 movie career to ever receive a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, the second ever since Deadfall in 1993.

It’s not his best work, but like the supportive bad movie watching party we are, Supercult sticks by Nic Cage through thick and then. What, you think that all Nic Cage movies are hilarious masterpieces? What do you think this is, Hollywood? New York? You’re in Grand Isle, son – we don’t subscribe to that big city nonsense.

Supercult West is proud to present, Grand Isle.

Grand Isle The Lord Cage’s Prayer: Our Father, which art in Snake Eyes, Nicolas be thy name; thy Face/Off come;

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Grand Isle (2019) Review

Grand Isle (2019) Review

Buddy is a young father who is being charged with murder by Detective Jones, in order to prove his innocence he must recall a very dark and twisted night with Walter and Fancy.

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How a Fort Worth Native Found an Oscar Winner for His Debut Feature

Growing up in Fort Worth, Iver William Jallah developed a passion for storytelling by immersing himself in classic literature and stage plays. When that evolved into a love for screenwriting and filmmaking, Jallah had a vivid dream. Six months later, his recollections had transformed into the script for Grand Isle, a Southern Gothic thriller dripping […]

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