A week’s worth of storms have passed and just as the 72 hour post-rain window is about to open a new storm looms on the horizon.  What’s a surfer to do to stave off the cabin-fever, the wave-shakes?  Watch movies.  Along with watching Picaresque twice, I watched a new one called Lines From A Poem.  [...]

Chasing Dora was a movie of the week on The Surf Network a while back.  As always, I see most surf movies as “well, that’s worth $7 to see.”  Sometimes that turns out to be true, sometimes not.  This time, it totally was.  While Chasing Dora is not the kind of surf film that you’ll [...]

I don’t really remember what drew me to The Ripple Effect movie in the first place.  Although re-watching the trailer does make it look appealing again.  I think the trailer belies the film.  The trailer and the film have very different vibes.
I like the notion of the film – the ripple effect.  And the description [...]

Have you even been out on your longboard and having the best day, the kind of day where you catch every wave you go for and get every ounce of stoke out of each ride? And then you think, “Man, I am taking this to the edge. I wonder how far I can [...]

Cosmic Children is a typical 70s style surf film – boring, hilarious, wonderful, drab narration, bizarre soundtrack, too long…  It begins with this cryptic quote: The Cosmic Children are the dynamic, space age surfers of the 1960’s who “feel the juice” of the ocean’s swells.
The movie is mainly 80 minutes of your standard surf clips [...]

The Ghosts Are Calling is a most interesting piece in my barrage of movie watchings. Although “movie” isn’t really the right word – film.  But not film as one might use to distinguish a fine movie like The Godfather from a fun flick like Point Break. It is more like a film piece one might [...]

Seaworthy is a recent surfing film by Nathan Oldfield that I watched on TV. Oldfield is the creator of Lines From A Poem which I have not yet seen, but heard positive things about.  Right off the bat, I dug the poster.  I know the addage says not to judge a book by it’s [...]

Another of my The Surf Network downloads, Sliding Liberia is a surf film right up my alley.  The story goes that Nicholai Lidow had been to Liberia as a student to help out with the UN peace keeping mission.  While there he started looking for waves in his off time.  He surfed many spots, but [...]

Continuing on my movie review path, while I was ill, I also watched Hanging Five, another of my The Surf Network downloads. Hanging Five profiles the lives, work and experiences of five artists who also happen to be surfers. Though this movie does show plenty of surfing, it might be wrong to call this a [...]

The Perch was one of the first films that caught my eye when I first started cruising The Surf Network.  I liked the artwork and I always like watching noseriding.  But The Perch did not deliver for me.  That is not to say there wasn’t plenty of noseriding, there was.
The description reads “A flowing, style [...]

Slowly coming out of my illness cocoon.  One of the high points about getting sick is that all I could for for about 36 hours was lie there and watch surf movies.  So now I have a slew of reviews for you.  Up first – Chasing The Lotus: The Lost Reels of Weaver and Wills. [...]

“Life begins in the sea.”  So goes the tag line for Water Man. In Water Man, we follow several prominent surfers to Indonesia in search of adventure in the ocean.  But despite having so many talented surfers (Gerry Lopez, Rob Machado and the Malloys), Water Man really turns out to be the Laird Hamilton show.  [...]

Last month we told you about The Surf Network, which is like an iTunes for Surf Movies. With the swell around here being in DUD mode right now, I am itchin’ for my fix.  Usually I turn to movies to help out in this situation.  I finally decided to give The Surf Network a try.  [...]

One Track Mind takes a look at how surfers focus on winning events on the world tour.  Interviews with each generation of competitive surfers from the 1970s on provide and interesting insight into the mind set each surfer uses to focus.  Directed by Chris Malloy for Woodshed Films, One Track Mind is not a typical [...]

If you haven’t seen this yet, these dudes are surfing way up in Norway and Russia, surfing inside the Arctic Circle.  Talk about an ice cream headache! Check out their elctro-wetsuits.  I don’t know if this is part of a longer film or if YouTube has more parts.  It says “part 1,” but it also [...]