On PLANET OF THE APES and how to do a reboot the right way
by Billy Russell, Staff Writer
Rise is not the series at its best. It gets better.
War for the Planet of the Apes
Directed by Matt Reeves (2017)
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy
Even though I enjoyed their campiness, I wasn’t a huge fan of the original 1960s and 1970s Planet of the Apes films. I appreciated the nihilistic messages for social equality and against war. The concept that “humanity” and “humane treatment” are in the eye of the beholder (or species) has stayed with me throughout my life. But the movies just don’t hold up to repeated viewings.
Read MoreCharlton Heston: Lord of the Apocalypse
by Eric Messina
Politics aside you’ve got to admit: Charlton Heston, the NRA-spouting conservative nut-case, knows his way around a mutant- or ape-infested nuclear wasteland. That 1968-73-time period is prime Heston at his most enigmatic as a teeth-clenching, gun-toting antihero. Let’s take a look at Heston’s apocalypse flicks.
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