A young chimpanzee tries to save his clan from a tyrannical ruler in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Many generations after the time of Caesar, Noa (Owen Teague) is a young member of the Eagle Clan, a tribe of chimpanzees, who breed and train eagles. While searching for eggs for an upcoming ceremony,…
A young virgin gets more than he bargained for one New Year’s Eve in The Night of the Virgin. Nico (Javier Bódalo) was dragged to a New Year’s Eve party by friends and desperate to find a girl to take his virginity. Nico attracts the attention of Medea (Miriam Martín), who takes him home to her…
The sentient apes prepare for a last stand against the remaining humans in War for the Planet of the Apes. It has now been fifteen years since the apes lead by Caesar (Andy Serkis) gained intelligence and began a life for themselves in the Muir Woods outside of San Francisco. Thanks to the previous actions of…
The stakes are raised in the second film of this rebooted Planet of the Apes series. In the decade since the first film, the drug that has made apes smarter has also resulted in a global pandemic that killed half the world’s human population. Caesar (Andy Serkis) has been living a peaceful existence with the…
Yesterday I went to a private screening of an ultra-low budget horror film entitled Beneath. The film was directed my friend and old York University classmate David Hollands, who had been working on the film since he shot it back in 2007 (while we were still students, he had a screening of earlier cut, then…
It’s easy to use the reboot buzzword when describing this film, but the film can also be seen as a loose remake of 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (which was the fourth film of the original series). The film is actually pretty decent and features a much more realistic depiction of apes, than…
