King Mong is a sequel to Costinha’s prior 1976 film, Costinha o Rei da Selva (Costinha, King of the Jungle), where he plays a Tarzan-ish character who is captured by leopard men that demand he marry their queen or be sacrificed to King Mong. I think we all know how that turns out, and suddenly King Mong is running around Rio de Janeiro and even climbs the Christ the Redeemer statue. I am unaware of any current way to see Costinha e o King Mong.

Costinha films that sound interesting not featuring naked women (as far as I know):
007 1/2 no Carnaval (007 1/2 at Carnaval) – 1966. Directed and written by Victor Lima, also starring Larry Carr, Costinha, Annik Malvil, Marivalda, and Rossana Ghessa.
Costinha o Rei da Selva (Costinha, King of the Jungle) – 1976. Directed by Alcino Diniz, written by Alcino Diniz and Roberto Silveira, and also starring Júlio César and Betty Saady
Costinha e o King Mong (Costinha and King Mong) – 1977.
O Homem de Seis Milhões de Cruzeiros Contra as Panteras (The Six Million Dollar Man cruises against Panthers) – 1978. Directed and written by Luiz Antônio Piá, also starring Nidia de Paula, Adele Fátima, Sandra Castro, Carvalhinho, and Floro Rodrigues

He also appeared on the Planeta dos Homens (Planet of the Humans) tv series, which was a Planet of the Apes-based sketch comedy show. More info here.

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For 2012, we have a slew of things lined up, both new and old. Some of the upcoming projects I won’t mention so I don’t jinx them. But we will have more podcasts. More Infernal Brains. More discount Puppet Explosion 411. More weirdo obscure stuff. More awesome less obscure stuff. More reviews. More movie news. More book reviews. More things on the TarsTarkas.NET Blog that don’t seem to be entirely movie related. We’re going to finish some of the projects we’ve started and abandoned on the way (or at least get them closer to completion!) We’re going to pump out some of the 90 drafts sitting in WordPress at 90% done.

Thank you for your support from 2004-2012, and beyond. TarsTarkas.NET hopes to continue to earn your views by giving you quality content and reviews.

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There’s even a Facebook Fan Page and a Twitter feed, for those of you who are into those sorts of things. Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit – so awesome it’s jawesome!

The biggest news is the Politisink spinoff site, the Wingnut Web feature growing into a monster that demanded its own domain name, so we gave it to it! We got two lawsuit threats so far, which have caused the usual laughing in response to the baseless claims.

Over the summer, we decided that Mambo just wasn’t going to cut it anymore as a CMS, and begun the painful conversion to WordPress as our CMS. Actually, it was relatively pain-free, aside from losing six years of links and Google rankings. Our Google rankings got nailed even further thanks to a hacker attack that happened shortly after the WordPress conversion, the hacker operating out of the Ukraine (and probably an automated bot) inserted malicious code via the message board that pretty much is unused except among the writing staff. So that was a headache and a half to fix, but no permanent damage was done and despite thousands of access attempts a day from Ukrainian computers, we defeated those mofos!

Tragedy struck the Tars Tarkas household as both the desktop computer and a laptop computer decided to go to computer heaven. The laptop’s death took about 15 written reviews with it, reviews I hadn’t uploaded to the site yet as drafts because it was right after the hacker mess and I hadn’t gotten around to it. We’re also down to just one computer at home, this lack of computers becoming obvious as updates have slowed, sharing being caring, but not good for updating sites constantly.

As for content, besides the constant flow of movie reviews, we also began video reviews with the Discount Puppet Explosion 411 series and began podcasts with Todd of FourDK. The podcast series now has a name (which will be revealed when the next one is uploaded) and the video reviews are doing better than I though a series where a Cabbage Patch Kid with a fake mustache being waved at the camera would. 2010 is also the only year we’ve skipped a theme/Godzilla month, but one will return in 2011 along with possibly a makeup month. Maybe. Some films are still deep in storage, but I have a scheme to get around that.

2011 will be a banner year, and will bring: More reviews. More videos. More podcasts. More cult movie news. More random articles. More films you never heard of. More films you wish you hadn’t. More intensely-researched films from countries with rich history of cinema not well known in the West. More quickly-written sarcastic pieces on softcore fluff that will get 100x more views. More typos. More more more. Enjoy the more.

2011 might even see me get around to making banner images for the main site and the blog. My copy of Photoshop died with one of the computers, but some of the free software is getting pretty good and I have some images saved for use in eventual banners. But then, 2012 might be a good year to make banner images, I hear it will be a banner year…

The jawesomeness….continues!

The complete movie list has been finished as well and added as a page. It’s the easiest way to find all the reviews. I’ll try to add it on the sidebar as soon as I sit down and actually do it. Now the real fun can begin and I can work on making a wordpress theme for the main site! I have a few candidates in mind for modding purposes, and have even figured out how to fix a table spacing issue that was causing problems with some of the themes I wanted to test out/steal parts from. As much fun as hard to read blue menus and a generic mountain range is, it’s time for a change. Hopefully this doesn’t take more than a month or so, but as I got a lot on my plate right now who knows…

The video reviews have started! I’ve been trying to work on an angle for them for a while, and hopefully this will at least be not boring. The first one is up and the second one will be up soon, they’ll probably show up two at a time in keeping with the show’s theme and how quickly I can watch films that would work better in video format. The Discount Puppet Explosion 411 show has pages on YouTube and Blip.tv if you want to follow them that way. We even have a subscriber already, and going through his movies he uses photos from TarsTarkas.NET for his Godzilla reviews. Since he isn’t a jerk like the guys at the Godzilla Wiki, that’s fine by me. This might not be the only multimedia expansion of TarsTarkas.NET in the near future…

Written reviews will continue and the next one should be up in another day or so, maybe sooner if I have time tonight. We also managed to find a way to get twitter to update when we post so now TarsTarkas.NET can be even more lazy. And that’s the greatest victory of all.

The fixed articles mean I will have more time to devote to cult movie news articles here on the blog, so they should start appearing with more regularity, assuming the wireless internet at work gets fixed so I can actually do stuff during my lunch break on the laptop. But if it’s broken still I’ll just have to play more Space Empires 4…

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