In an entertainment era where seemingly everything is being dumbed down and homogenized, the Planet of the Apes films have managed to hold on, retaining their focus on larger ideas about society, human nature, and the rise and fall of civilization. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth in t...
Read More20th Century Studios is monkeying around this week, releasing a trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the next installment in the long-running sci-fi franchise (albeit part of the rebooted continuity). This entry jumps forward several generations and finds apes becoming the dominant specie...
Read MoreThe most recent Planet of the Apes trilogy concluded in 2017, with Matt Reeves’ excellent War for the Planet of the Apes. In my eyes, this ended one of the greatest movie trilogies ever created and emotionally satisfied me to the point that I never really desired a followup. Today, it was repo...
Read MoreI had been looking forward to Alita: Battle Angel for several years. I remember an article from 13 years ago where James Cameron discussed his two epic sci-fi trilogies that he was planning as his comeback to narrative filmmaking, having spent the better part of a decade developing moviemaking techn...
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