Howard Hawks is, in my opinion, one of the best filmmakers to come out of Hollywood. He could easily switch between genres, cranking out comedies and dramas that both audiences and critics loved. His filmography includes Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday […]
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From Hollywood To Heaven (III)(1971-77) (Review) Part Two – Ron Ormond’s Bogus Journey
Continuing on our journey From Hollywood to Heaven, we must first take the road through The Burning Hell (1974), with the Reverend Estus Pirkle as our Dante, Ron Ormond our Virgil, and The Neon Demon (2016) director Nicholas Winding Refn still ever-present for some as-of-yet indiscernible reason. The Ormond family’s […]
From Hollywood To Heaven (III)(1971-77) (Review) Part One – All Ormonds Go to Heaven
Can a born-again Christian really become an exploitation movie superstar? Picture, if you will, one Ron Ormond, a Louisiana-born screenwriter, author, magician, showman and, most relevant to the subject of this review, director of motion pictures. If you’ve heard that name before, it may be because Ormond was a rather […]
Jean Rollin – The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) & Two Orphan Vampires (1997) (Review)
Few directors like Jean Rollin exist in the annuls of film history. A French director who remained almost entirely in obscurity his entire career, despite his work being more readily available he remains perpetually overlooked. Due to the lack of financial success his films achieved; he eventually began directing pornographic […]
Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver Masked Man (1961) Fascinating Mexican cinematic history (Blu-Ray Review)
The Phantom of the Monastery (1934); A Well Preserved Piece of Mexican Film History (Review)
A Time for Dying (1969) Audie Murphy’s Last Stand (Review)
Mad Dog Morgan (1976) A nonchalantly average & confused Australian Western (Review)
Bartleby (1970): literature’s greatest enigma gets a fine, clever modernisation (Review)
Herman Melville is most famous for writing one of the American novel’s greatest epics in Moby-Dick, but his second most fascinating work couldn’t be more different in terms of scale. A modest, compact short story about a Wall Street clerk who sends his office into turmoil by politely refusing all […]