Ape Week: Revolt of the Empire of the Apes (2017)
In 2227, Earth has become the playground for the apes and humans are only good for labor and sport. There are some rebel freedom fighters who are ready to battle against the apes and now, we begin the sequel to Empire of the Apes. Seriously, it’s really come to this. You may look at the […]
Ape Week: Planet of (the) Dinosaurs (1978): Not “Planet of the Apes”
How desperate and unashamed were studios at grabbing a slice of the Star Wars pie? Well, take notice of Star Wars’ famous X-Wing Fighters and Millennium Falcon going into battle against dinosaurs—and artist Frank Frazetta—in a first-draft script that was punched out in three days. Of course, Planet of Dinosaurs was rushed into production to […]
Ape Week: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
J. Lee Thompson had wanted to be involved with Planet of the Apes since the original film, but scheduling conflicts had kept that from happening. For this, the fourth film in the series, he shot much of the film like a news broadcast, influenced by the many civil rights changes over the past few years. […]
Ape Week: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
“Apes exist, Sequel required.” With those words, sent in a telegram from producer Arthur P. Jacobs to writer Paul Dehn, a sequel was set in motion to Beneath the Planet of the Apes. But hey — didn’t everyone die in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of that movie? They sure did. Doesn’t matter. Dehn […]
I Spy (2002)
Based on the 1960’s TV series that starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby, this 2002 remake unites Owen Wilson as Special Agent Alex Scott and Eddie Murphy as boxer Kelly Robinson. Together, they must bring back a stolen spyplane from arms dealer Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). Plus, you also get to see Famke Janssen as […]
Ape Week: Empire of the Apes (2013)
Somewhere past our galaxy, in a land where special effects can be downloaded from the web and inserted in After Effects, three female convicts find themselves stranded on a world of warlike apes. They must battle these gorillas and the warden that comes after them or face become concubines for these brutal primates. Mark Polonia has […]
Ape Week: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Nothing succeeds like, well, success. After Planet of the Apes, producers considered several treatments before finally hiring Paul Dehn to write the movie, making him the primary writer for the films. They didn’t use the sequel suggested by Pierre Boulle, author of the original novel, whose Planet of the Men script had Taylor as a messiah […]
Ape Week: Planet of the Apes (1968)
La Planete des Singes is where Planet of the Apes gets its start. It’s the story of three humans who travel from Earth to the star Betelgeuse, where apes are the dominant species. So many of the ideas that appear in the movies come from this book, save the shock ending that all surprise endings yearn to […]
Exploring: After Star Wars – fin
Exploring: Episode II . . . A long time ago . . . on a theatre screen far, far away . . . long before Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker . . . 2001: A Space Odyssey holds the distinction—in a gullet-stifling glut of Italian rip-offs of every successful American movie […]
Star Wars Droppings: Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982)
The Man Who Saved the World is the true name of this movie, although nearly everyone refers to it as Turkish Star Wars. Murat and Ali crash their ships on a desert planet that is no way Tatooine. That said, the footage of their crash is from Star Wars and footage of both the US and USSR […]
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