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…
Transforming Comics – Free Comic Book Day, The Gateway In
Hello readers, I am here with a new weekly article that will center news for comics and related media. The focus will sometimes run into my current favourite on-going series Transformers, but today is more of a look into getting started with comic collecting and reading. For that purpose I am going to tell you about a…
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 Shadow Rising: Robert Jordan – Book Review
The journey to Tarmon Gai’don begins here.