vengeance a love story

I’m not usually swayed by the deluge of direct-to-VoD/DVD titles headlining actor Nicolas Cage. Bearing that in mind, I found myself intrigued in the past year or so having spotted the extended sales trailer for Johnny Martin’s directorial debut, Vengenace: A Love Story, a film based on the work of author Joyce Carol Oates and adapted for the screen by John Mankiewicz. That trailer stayed stuck in my head for months to date and it’s probably the only Cage film to have done that in a long, LONG time, and only because it didn’t merely try to sell me a Nicolas Cage action thriller… It sold me characters. It sold me story, setting and tone with some terrific performances from our cast including Anna Hutchison and Talitha Bateman, and Don Johnson among the bunch to round out Martin’s seething revenge narrative here. The film has its share of mixed reviews […]

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