All this week, Uproxx will be paying tribute to the many facets of Nicolas Cage, from his big-screen triumphs to the legends that have come to surround him and the cult following both have helped ...

On June 6, 1997, Buena Vista unveiled the R-rated Nicolas Cage actioner in theaters. By Duane Byrge On June 6, 1997, Buena Vista unveiled the R-rated Nicolas Cage actioner Con Air in theaters, where ...

Con Air is a 1997 action film directed by Simon West. The movie follows the story of Cameron Poe, a former Army Ranger, who finds himself aboard a prison transport plane filled with dangerous ...

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If you remember a movie starring Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi as a bunch of convicts who highjack a plane, then you probably remember 1997’s awful Con Air. If you don’t, then the new ...

Our Flick of the Week is “Con Air,” a mostly entertaining — and absurdly so — mix of “Airport,” “The Dirty Dozen” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” That translates into a high-energy story about an ...

No one thinks of “Con Air” as an Alabama movie. Why not? Yes, there are widely beloved, bonafide Oscar-winners like “Forrest Gump,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Selma,” you might anoint as cream of ...

In 1993, Los Angeles Times staff writer Eric Malnic wrote an article, titled “When Jailbirds Fly, They Always Use Con Air”, about the U.S. Marshals Service’s Air Operations Division, which flies ...

Director Simon West burst onto the action filmmaking scene with 1997's Con Air, a star-studded Jerry Bruckheimer production that marked the first action movie that Nicolas Cage carried (The Rock being ...