Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end-of-year retrospective continues with a look at March’s best.
SILENT MOVIES ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS – On Easter Sunday I reviewed silent films that were relevant to the holiday. The movies dated from 1898, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1912, 1916, 1917, 1923, 1927 and 1928. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: A TALE OF THE X-RAY (1898)- Written by Clara H. Holmes. Click HERE.
SUPERHEROES FROM INDONESIA – From the 1950s onward, it’s a selection of heroes and heroines like Tira, White Garuda, Merpati, Starblast and more. Click HERE.
THE LEGEND OF FRANCOIS VILLON – The life and legend of this 1400s poet and outlaw from France. Follow his saga as a lauded poet who was often on the run in between crimes. Click HERE.
ALIEN: NO MAN’S LAND (2024) – A tribute film set during World War One. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE WORLD UNDERGROUND (1741) – A novel about the discovery of life and civilizations deep inside the Earth.
This pioneering work blazed a trail for many later stories about Inner Earth adventures. Click HERE.
USTINOV AD LIB (1966) – Peter Ustinov’s comedy special with guest star Dudley Moore. Click HERE.
SPACE MONSTER WANGMAGWI (1967) – A South Korean attempt to jump on the Godzilla and Gamera bandwagon as invading aliens unleash their enormous monster called Wangmagwi on the world. Hilariously bad. Click HERE.
IBERIA, INC: SPAIN’S SUPERHEROES – Beginning in 1996, Spain’s homegrown superteam Iberia, Inc. caught lightning in a bottle with stories that combined the best qualities of Claremont’s X-Men with the multi-decade saga of the Watchmen. Click HERE. Continue reading
FURIOUS (1984) – The Rhee Brothers star in one of the most joyously bad and disjointed martial arts movies of all time. 
AUSTRALIA’S SUPERHEROES OF THE 1940s & 1950s – An examination of Atom-Girl, the Grey Domino, Jet Fury, the Blue Ghost, the Vesuvian and many more 
THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ (1904) – We’ve all been exposed to countless variations of the adventures of Dorothy Gale and company in Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Therefore I’m starting my reviews of the Oz books with the second in the series – The Marvelous Land of Oz. 
The nasty old witch is unfazed and further proves she’s not scared by sprinkling the pumpkin-headed figure with a magical Powder of Life. The powder brings Jack Pumpkinhead to life but he’s very naive and ignorant.
DICK TURPIN (1925) – My review of this silent movie which starred American cowboy star Tom Mix trading in his rifle and six-guns for a sword and pistols in an exciting film about England’s real-life outlaw Dick Turpin. It’s 
SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S STORYBOOK (1958-1961) – This bit of Forgotten Television featured Temple starring alongside some of the biggest celebrities of the day in child-safe dramatizations of classics from children’s literature. Click 
DESERT CRUSADER (1968-1969) – A French tv series about Thibaud (tee-bow), a French knight who has adventures along the road to the Holy Land in between the 1st and 2nd Crusades. My review is 
It’s time for another current events roundup from 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy this holiday and the hope for peaceful coexistence represented by the possibly mythic meal that it commemorates. The kind of self-righteous killjoys who bash Thanksgiving are the type of sanctimonious idiots that are fun to laugh at since they have no identity outside of their ephemeral political concerns. 
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