Untamed Mistress
Ron Ormond’s low budget quickie Untamed Mistress (1956) follows a doctor and his party on safari into the heart of the African jungle. Here, in gorilla country, the half-wild Velda… Read more »
Ron Ormond’s low budget quickie Untamed Mistress (1956) follows a doctor and his party on safari into the heart of the African jungle. Here, in gorilla country, the half-wild Velda… Read more »
Michael J. Murphy was nineteen years old the first time he adapted the twelfth century chivalric romance Tristan and Iseult. Murphy’s first Tristan & Iseult (1970) only exists in a… Read more »
Against The Grain (2023) isn’t just a special feature on Vinegar Syndrome’s Lost Picture Show boxed set, it’s a film that is both a lover letter to and a history… Read more »
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke have made their debut fiction feature together. It’s called Drive-Away Dolls and it follows two women on a road trip who get caught up with… Read more »
Madame Web (2024) would make an ideal case study in studio meddling and second guessing. The sloppy ADR, unfinished special effects and soulless characterization do little to elevate the incoherent… Read more »
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi have taken the popular maxim that all a movie needs is “a boy, a girl and a gun” and put their own spin on… Read more »
Kuei Chih-Hung’s Curse Of Evil (1982) plays as the Chinese equivalent to Gothic Horror. The film is set entirely in a spooky old mansion; there’s the ominous “curse of the… Read more »
Obsession (1976) is director Brian De Palma and writer Paul Schrader’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The title suits the plot of the film, but it also addresses De… Read more »
Richard Franklin’s Roadgames (1981) transposes Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) to the desolate highways that girdle the remote Australian outback. In place of James Stewart’s apartment Franklin gives viewers the… Read more »
What are the cheerleaders of Rambling University to do when their star football players are looking at another college? Why, they’ll follow them on their campus visit and sabotage it!… Read more »