When I was but a humble Warner Bros. Studio tour guide in 2012, the entire department was gifted a rare treat: A trip to the studio archives. Shuttled to a nondescript airport hangar, we toured the most precious of WB artifacts, an elite few of which rotate on display at the lot’s museum.

For the past 10 years, the locally founded and operated Nicolas Uncaged festival has toasted the work and legacy of Nicolas Cage, the Oscar-winning actor who is one of Hollywood's most enigmatic stars, with an appropriately freewheeling celebration that is closer in spirit to a house party than it is a film festival.