Glenn Close‘s Academy Award-nominated performance in The Wife is the most notable DVD/Blu-ray of the week, and it is joined by several acclaimed films getting Criterion Collection and Warner Archive Collection releases, as well as other theatrical hits and critical…
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918): Watch Out for That Tree!
The legendary lord of the jungle first swung onto movie screens 97 years ago in Tarzan of the Apes, with Elmo Lincoln in the title role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer goes out on a limb–er, vine–to review the 1918 silent adventure saga.
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Glenn Morris played Tarzan once…and most think once was enough! A strange piece of trivia led me to sit down with “Tarzan’s Revenge”; let’s have a look now at one of the lesser-regarded entries in the apeman’s long screen history.
Read more →The Tarzan Centennial
OK, (vine) swingers: How are you planning to celebrate the Tarzan Centennial? A phenomenon ever since Tarzan of the Apes was first published in All-Story Magazine, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Lord of the Jungle marks a century of dominion over popular…
Read more →Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959): Classic Movie review
The Tarzan movies that I watched as a kid on Saturday morning TV have all blurred into my head as one vine-swinging meta-narrative of a cartoonish jungle hero battling cartoonish villains. But of all those films, one stood out from…
Read more →Tarzan the Ape Man Movie Review
Take a look at the classic Tarzan, the Ape Man: When traders Harry Holt and James Parker are in Africa about to embark on an expedition to find an infamous elephant graveyard, they’re surprised to find out they will be…
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