All of this is to say that Nicolas Cage’s Stanley Goodspeed in The Rock is one of the wildest and most enjoyable performances in the actor’s prolific career, and one I’m glad I got to revisit.

Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I ...

Action specialist Michael Bay directs this high-adrenalin thriller about a deranged army general (Ed Harris) who holds 81 tourists hostage on Alcatraz island, demanding government compensation for ...