Thai Visitor Nicolas Cage Too Busy Fleeing War to Learn Directors’ Names

It’s altogether possible that Nicolas Cage’s new film Bangkok Dangerous is among his finest — a lively, entertaining adventure recalling his early years romping through movies by the Coens, David Lynch and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola. Still, we relieved most of our illusions fairly early in Cage’s appearance last night on Letterman, when the Oscar-winner-for-hire confessed both his inability to distinguish his twin-brother directors from each other and his time spent fleeing Thailand’s recent coup d’etat with his wife and child. But then we felt a certain restorative surge of confidence, a sort of implied Method veracity that re-established our faith in his cockroach-eating batshittery of yore. So now we’re just confused. But hey as long as it’s not, like, Ghost Rider 2 or… Wait, what? Oh. So much for optimism. [CBS]