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Ape Shall Not Kill Ape: A Look at the Entire Apes Franchise
With the imminent arrival of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a Far-Flung Correspondent rewatched every Apes film to date from Charlton Heston to Mark Wahlberg, and beyond.
With the imminent arrival of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a Far-Flung Correspondent rewatched every Apes film to date from Charlton Heston to Mark Wahlberg, and beyond.
On the latest Blu-ray releases, including a Criterion edition of McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
A preview of the 2019 DOC10 Film Festival (April 11-14) in Chicago, featuring reviews of "Hail Satan?", "Mike Wallace Is Here," "Midnight Family," "The Infiltrators," "Knock Down the House," "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch," "The Biggest Little Farm," "The Distant Barking of Dogs" and "One Child Nation."
Why are black women so central in post-apocalyptic fiction? A writer looks at the trend.
With FilmStruck gone and no real alternative filling the void at present, Amazon is in a prime position to grab up fans of classic movies.
Far Flung Correspondent Omer Mozaffar talks about his experience as a consultant on the new Amazon series, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.
After all these years it’s hard for me to say if “Earthquake” is either a guilty pleasure or a movie so bad that it’s good.
An interview with Michael Shannon about the election, "Nocturnal Animals," "The Night Before" and more.
A comparison between the recent version of "Ben-Hur" and the classic 1959 version by William Wyler.
An appreciation of Richard Lester as a retrospective of his work is about to unfold in New York City.
An analysis of recent faith-based releases, including "God's Not Dead" and "Heaven Is For Real."
Tom Shales looks at "Carson on TCM," a weekly series of shows culling great Carson interviews.
"As film exhibition in North America crowds itself ever more narrowly into predictable commercial fodder for an undemanding audience, we applaud those brave, free spirits who still hold faith with the unlimited potential of the cinema." - Roger
After watching Tim Burton's remake of "Planet of the Apes" (2001), I concluded there was no need for another "Ape" movie to ever be made. Thirty-three years of progress in makeup technology didn't help the latter version become any better than the one that inspired it. That's why, hearing there would be a "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" a decade later, I had no expectations and feared the worst, but the results were pleasantly surprising. We often associate the word "remake" with a lack of creativity so when an exception turns out, it's important to look back and try to understand the reasons behind this.
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