Crank Media Review: Life on Hold

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…

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Crank Media Review: Blocheads

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…

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Crank Media Review: Southern Slopers

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…

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Crank Media Review: Rampage

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…

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Crank Media Review: West Coast Pimp

"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…

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Crank Media Review: Western Gold

What is "Western" with respect to the United States?  The mid-west is kinda the middle of the country.  When east coast climbers talk about going west to climb, they mostly…

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Crank Media Review: A Day in the Life

There are a lot of films and features out there that focus on women in climbing, almost too many to list.  At some point, however, I will do the due…

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Crank Media Review: Stone Love

If The Real Thing is the iconic UK bouldering film for Fontainbleau, Stone Love is its Swiss cousin.   This wasn't a film on my radar initially, until a V-VeryStrong climber…

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Crank Media Review: Thrutch

thrutch (v.) To climb desperately, with a pit-bull reliance on brawn over technique.   The Climbing Dictionary - Matt SametThrutch is a rarely seen flick by relative unknown JBone Productions. Fair warning -…

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Gear Guide – The Crag Car

The Crag Car.  You know you're getting committed to a hobby when it influences major decisions like what car you're driving - I'd do a follow up article on where…

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