‘A spiritual awakening’: why Con Air is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers on their most important comfort films is a celebration of Nicolas Cage’s finest action moment It’s easy to poke fun at Nicolas Cage. Between the meltdown memes, dodgy hairdos and his more taxman-friendly choices of roles, he has frequently made himself a target for ridicule among the masses. Fresh off an Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas, the actor’s decision to follow up with three action films must have seemed baffling at the time. The gambit paid off, thou...

By Joel Harley