Fire Birds
Director: David Green
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00WV7TN80
Running Time: 91 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time is the 1990 action-film Fire Birds. Directed by David Green, the film stars Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young. There are no extras or special features on the single-disc.

Originally released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures label in 1990, the film received negative reviews from critics, all of which compared the storyline to 1985's Top Gun. It didn't do very well with moviegoers at the time, grossing under $15-million before being pulled from theaters after only three weeks.

The film centers on U.S. Army and the Drug Enforcement Administration putting together a task force to stop the drug cartels in South America. Nicholas Cage plays a hotshot pilot Jake Preston
who enlists into the Apache air-to-air combat training program, which one of the trainees happens be his ex-girlfriend Billie Lee Guthrie (played by Sean Young). Running the training program is flight instructor Brad Little (played by Tommy Lee Jones), whom for some reason sees past Preston's cockiness and pushes him to become a great pilot.

Of course Preston tries to romance Billie Lee before they are sent on a deadly mission to take out the cartel leader, Eric Stoller (played by Bert Rhine).

Outcast
Director: Nick Powell
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Nicholas Cage
Studio: Entertainment One
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Retail: $29.99
ASIN: B00QJAZ4J2
Running Time: 98 minutes
Rated: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available to own on DVD & Blu-ray from Entertainment One is the action-packed adventure Outcast. Directed by Nick Powell, the film Stars Hayden Christensen (Star Wars II & III), Nicholas Cage (National Treasure 1 & 2), Lou Eiffel, Jo Kr Jun Y and Andy On. Special Features includes Interviews with Cast & Crew, Making of "Outcast" and the Theatrical Trailer.

The film center on a former Crusader fighter Jacob (played by Hayden Christensen), who is struggling to get over the war, but he must come to terms with his past when he comes across two Chinese siblings, Lian (played by Liu Yifei) & Zhao (Bill Su Jiahang), in dire need of his help. Their father has been murdered by their ruthless brother, Shing (Andy On), whom wants to take the throne for himself, though his youngest bother, Lian, is suppose to be the new ruler of the kingdom.


Jacob makes it his personal mission to protect Lian and Zaho from Shing and his army, but to save them, he must rely on an old friend - the mysterious outlaw known as The White Ghost (played by Nicholas Cage).

Rage
Director: Paco Cabezas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Danny Glover, Rachel Nichols, Peter Stormare
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Retail: $29.96
ASIN: B00KBZZI10
Running Time: 98 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon


Review:

Arriving on DVD this Tuesday, August 12, 2014, is the crime-thriller Rage from Image Entertainment. The film is directed by Paco Cabezas and stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), Danny Glover (the Lethal Weapon films) Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) and Peter Stormare (Fargo). Special features include: The Making of RAGE, deleted scenes and an alternate ending.

Nicolas Cage plays Paul Maquire, a businessman, husband and loving father, who has a deadly past. Late one night, the unthinkable occurs - his teenage daughter, Caitlin (played by Aubrey Peeples) goes missing. What looks like a kidnapping, turns into murder when his daughter's body is found near Tokarev Russian gun.

Paul shoves his wife (played by Rachel Nichols) away, as he reunites with his old buddies, Kane (played by Max Ryan) and Danny (played by Michael McGrady) to seek out who murdered his daughter, which includes starting a war with the Russian mob.