If you're a collector of climbing films, there are some that pop up on your radar constantly.  These are films that despite being two decades old, there are still plenty…

Southern California... So Cal, or Soul Cal?From Paul Dusatko, who brought us skate-film-esque films like Inertia, and thoughtful profile pieces like A Day in the Life: 5 Women Who Climb, comes Soul…

There's climbing in Ireland?Yes, there's plenty of climbing in Ireland, and Underdeveloped captures it at a very relateable level. It's a relatively "low budget" film compared to some other offerings,…

Rotpunkt. If you don't speak German, it means Redpoint.  Believe it or not, the transition from aid climbing being "climbing" to free climbing being "climbing" is only four-ish decades in the…

And now for something completely different. Most of the recent reviews have been bouldering flicks, but there are other kinds of climbing, and we're going to the opposite end of…

Another British bouldering film?  I know we've been doing a lot of these recently, but there are many, and more topically, this one went on YouTube in full recently (foolish…

Bouldering.  That's like, training for real climbing, sort of the bottom rung of the ladder, right? So it was for many decades, but there's a rich history as far back…

Oh boy.  The O.G., Southern Slopers. The film about Horse Pens 40 in all its glory.A masterpiece of the VHS era, it played on loop in the Shultz's cantina just…

Let me apologize up front.  We've been running this blog for half a decade now, reviewing our 200+ film collection, sometimes more frequently than others.  In all that time, we've…

"Bouldering is instant suffering" - Yvon ChounairdSo reads the opening card of 2000's West Coast Pimp. It was shot and edited by Tim Steele and Steve Montesanto who kindly uploaded it…