Where does the time go...

Summer being what it is, television tends to become a little less relevant. Spare me the sob stories about the great options cable gives us these days! Summer is here, which means top-notch programs like Lost, Survivor, and 24 are not. What's a guy to do? I usually use this time to catch up on the films I may have missed throughout the year, but, last night, I found myself reaching back to my college days for The Rock. For those who don't know, this is around the time when someone had the clever idea to make Nicholas Cage into an action here. Face/Off, Con Air and The Rock all hit theaters within the span of a couple years, but this rollicking little break-into-Alcatraz number might be my personal favorite. Does this mean I buy Cage as an action star? Not necessarily, but the film moves along at a brisk pace, its from an era before Michael Bay fell too much in love with himself, and it heralds from a time when films were produced by Simpson and Bruckheimer. With the former's passing, the latter now rules film and television. Oh, where does the time go?