Bull.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for The Moment of Truth.

Monsieur Hitchcock's Vacation.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for To Catch a Thief.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review of A Star is Born.

Ice Queen.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for D.W. Griffith's Way Down East.

Loverlier Than Ever.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for My Fair Lady.

Me Sabu, You Colonialists.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!

Guys and Classic Dolls.

Head over to PopMatters and check out our list of the Best Male Performances of 2011. Since you're already there, also make sure to read my review for Design for Living.

First Dose of Polanski This Week.

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for Cul-de-sac.

Most Perfect Filmography Ever?

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for The Complete Jean Vigo. Also, do you agree with this post's title? Discuss!

The Sparkling Diamond.

You all know how much I love Breakfast at Tiffany's but believe it or not i'd never written a full review for it! Now go check out my review for Paramount's 50th Anniversary Edition over at PopMatters.

Unlocking the Myth.

Head over to PopMatters and read my brand new review for Jean Cocteau's Orpheus.

I Know It's Monday But...

Head over to PopMatters and read my review for the dazzling People on Sunday. As most of you know, I'm a great admirer of the Weimar period when it comes to the arts, so watching this film was a true pleasure.

Me Tarzan, You Horny.

One of my favorite things about Pre-code movies is how freaking erotic they are. Tarzan the Ape Man is most definitely no exception. How could it? When it featured the lovely Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane and the amazingly sexy Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan.

During my favorite sequence, Jane has been frolicking with Tarzan over tree tops and vines. However we have had no truly obvious inkling of them having actual sexual intercourse. We know Jane wants it, given that she barely refuses to be kidnapped by the ape man and we know Tarzan must be tired of fooling around with hairier mammals.

As Tarzan takes a dip in a pond, Jane looks from the outside begging him not to drag her in.

Why? She doesn't want to get wet. Yes, wet, literally and take that in any other way you want. Remember the context...Hollywood was naughty back then.

Jane fails.

Tarzan pulls her into the water and her look of delight is simply a joy to watch.

Neither of them can wait to get out of the water and head over to their cave though, which leads to my favorite shot in the entire movie...

We see how Jane has completely surrendered to lust and desire. She relaxes watching her reflection on the pond, completely drenched and hopefully quite satisfied. O'Sullivan's performance in this movie has an amount of horniness that only rivals Kim Hunter in A Streetcar Named Desire and Anne Baxter, well, in anything she starred in.

Gotta love the fact that the art direction in this particular moment is so freaking sexual. We have the leopard skin, the smoothness of the water and Jane is lying on something that might as well be a giant penis.

And when Tarzan finally returns, Jane is surely ready for more.

Would you blame her?

This post is part of Nat's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series.

Like at the Movies.

While Watching "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs"...

...I had to wonder if everyone in movies from 1960 was getting laid?

Think Psycho, The Apartment, BUtterfield 8, Breathless, L'aventura...

‎"It's not the having, it's the getting." - Elizabeth Taylor

While Watching "Little Caesar"...

I realized it should've been called:

"Beauty

and the Beast".

While Watching "The Day of the Triffids"...

I couldn't help but love how at one time smoking was allowed everywhere, even in hospitals.


And more than that...


The friendly nurse would help the recovering patient light up.

I said it again recently but I must repeat it: I love vintage sci-fi.

Thanks to the awesome Luke of Journalistic Skepticism for recommending this one. Any others you have in mind buddy? How about you guys, any awesome old, campy sci-fi classic you think I should watch?

When in Mars.

According to Robinson Crusoe on Mars these are absolute musts to pack when going to the red planet.


Adam West and a monkey in a space suit.


A strange little TV that apparently airs 60 Minutes on a loop.


The man who inspired Lady Gaga's album cover.


A bagpipe.


And this hat.

Don't you just love vintage sci-fi?

"Be happy Cliff."