Suicide Squad (2021)
Yeah, I get it. There are a lot of superhero movies. But saying there are too many is like saying there are too many slashers or comedies. It’s a genre in and out of itself that can tell a variety of different stories. And nobody has done a better job of that than James Gunn, […]
The Eternal Question and Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)
Editor’s Note: We’ll also discussion two, even more obscure Ormond family productions, with the films Surrender at Navajo Canyon (1980) and The Sacred Symbol (1984), in the context of this review. You wouldn’t know it by the lobby card, but this isn’t a soft skin flick or film noir rife with sexual innuendo: it’s a […]
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (1951)
Editor’s Note: We’ll also touch upon another lost, forgotten Ormond historical document, Parisienne Creations, concerned with the vaudeville-inspiring cabaret halls of Paris, within the context of this review. The many who are quick to denounce this entry on Ron Ormond’s resume, unfortunately, don’t know the man behind the lens. Ron Ormond directed a series of […]
Varieties on Parade (1951) and Forty Acre Feud (1965)
We’ve made it our life’s mission to watch and review — sans his twenty-plus westerns as a producer, writer and director — all of Ron Ormond’s secular and Christian films. (The westerns will get done, eventually.) And we’re almost there. We’re left with The Eternal Question (1956), a soft skin-flick of which we have yet […]
Kentucky Jubilee (1951) and Square Dance Jubilee (1949)
Bruce Eder, in the liner notes of the 1989 The Criterion Collection reissue of A Hard Day’s Night, reminds us that, in a 1964 review of that classic Beatles’ film, critic Andrew Sarris described it as “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.” Since then, the term “jukebox musical” has, in my opinion, gone a wee-bit […]
Untamed Mistress (1956)
“Who will be her mate, man or beast?” Untamed Mistress is of a time and place. It’s a film that’ll probably offend, since it’s basically a stag film, aka a nudie-cutie. Before Internet pornography — although this is not pornographic in the least — films like Untamed Mistress is how your dads and your dads’ […]
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