Ponderosa

Camp’s cleverly double-sided performance leads with what’s lonely and vulnerable and tragic, sometimes hilariously so, about George, but it would be too easy to play him as a crazy old coot.

A film perhaps better suited to a more general festival such as Sundance, Ponderosa certainly presents the FrightFest attendees with alternative programming.

Might potentially work, but more often than not, it does not. ... Satire works best when it exposes the core of the very thing it’s spoofing, while Rice’s film stops at merely ridiculing it.

Ponderosa invites us to ponder and contend with the heavy and burdensome duty of forging and living [America's] intrepid legacy.