The 70s were an interesting time for sex in the cinema as films that would be considered outright pornos by today’s standards were getting legitimate theatrical releases, being reviewed by notable papers and critics, and earning tons of money. Now, when one looks back at such films as Behind the Green Door (1972) Deep Throat…
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Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968) – Review
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy was the last of the Sy Weintraub Tarzan movies and after this installment Weintraub moved the Lord of the Jungle off the big screen and onto television with Ron Ely starring as Tarzan. In this final chapter Tarzan returns to Africa but in reality its filming locations were all in…
Sex Sells: A Brief History of Cinema’s Favourite Trick.
Sex sells. This is not a bold thesis so much as a stubborn, unkillable truth, and few mediums have leaned into it more enthusiastically than cinema. From the earliest flickers of film, sexuality has been baked into the language of movies. One of the first films ever publicly exhibited, The Kiss (1886), ran a scandalous…
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) – Review
There is no shortage of films about the movie industry, from Bill Wilder’s film noir Sunset Blvd to Robert Altman’s satirical The Player to silly films like Hal Needham’s Hooper, we as viewers are fascinated by that celluloid world. Now, in Shion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell? we get the bloodiest look at…
The Many Faces of Superman
“It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!” It would be hard to deny that there is no character more iconic than Superman, you would have to travel to a very obscure and isolated spot on this Earth to locate someone who couldn’t identify The Man of Steel from even just his trademark symbol –…