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Willy’s Wonderland

After becoming stranded in a remote area of Nevada, a softspoken transient finds himself working off the debt of his car repair as a night janitor at an entertainm­ent complex called Willy’s Wonderland. Beginning his cleaning duties for the evening, The Janitor (Cage) finds himself locked inside Willy’s Wonderland

overnight with the frightenin­g and dilapidate­d animatroni­c mascots, including Willy theweasel (Stanek),arty thealligat­or (Bradley), Cammy the Chameleon (Towery), Ozzie the Ostrich (Guyer),tito the Turtle (Schmitt Jr.), Gus the Gorilla (Bussey), Knighty Knight (Jackson) and Siren Sara (Davis). After being attacked by Ozzie the Ostrich

while mopping, the janitor must survive the night with the help of a local teen named Liv (Tosta), who suspects the complex houses something dark and twisted.

Director: Kevin Lewis. Stars: Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Billy Bussey, Duke Jackson, Chris Schmitt Jr., B.J. Guyer, Taylor Towery, Chris Bradley, Jiri

Stanek, Ric Reitz, Jessica Graves Davis. 2021. 88 mins. Action.

Giants Being Lonely

In rural North Carolina, the stars of the local high school baseball team, Bobby (J. Irving) and Adam (B. Irving), must navigate their all-important senior year of high school as local celebritie­s. However, their stardom doesn’t shield them from life’s many hurdles, including substance abuse, finding a date to prom and seemingly normalized emotional abuse from the team’s coach (Fazio).

Director: Grear Patterson. Stars: Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Alejandro Castro Arias,tal Chatterjee, Amalia Culp, Lola Daehler, Gabe Fazio. 2019. 81 mins. Drama.

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Nicolas Cage in “Willy’s Wonderland”

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