Remember how I said you need to see Pig if you haven’t already?
The 2021 film stars Nicolas Cage in what might be his best role since 2021 (and yes I am considering Longlegs, Dream Scenario, Renfield, and those two seconds he appears as Superman in The Flash): Rob, a former chef who lives in a cabin in the woods with his truffle-hunting pig. Rob has rejected a Michelin-star life in Portland in favor of the forest of the Pacific Northwest, but when a group of pig-snatchers break into his home and snatch dat pig, the cook juliennes a path of revenge through a world he abandoned.
That premise could easily explode into a chef-knife-wielding riff on John Wick. Sarnoski certainly builds a mythology worthy of The Continental, as Rob wanders through the restaurant’s world criminal underbelly. Cage’s character even winds up in a fight club for cooks. But Sarnoski always
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