Ape Management Part 7: Josh reviews Rise of the Planet of the Apes!
When I first started to read about the possibility of a new Planet of the Apes film, a few years back, I thought the central concept was at once incredibly gutsy and yet at the same time quite boringly predictable. The idea of remaking not the first Planet of the Apes (the way Tim Bur
Ape Management Part 6: Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001)
My friends and I discovered the Planet of the Apes films in college. We’d taken to visiting the local rental store, trying to fill in the gaps in our movie-watching histories. Basically, we rented films that we felt we really SHOULD see, since we considered ourselves movie-f
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
Although I was a bit lukewarm on the first two novels in the four-book Star Trek crossover series, Typhon Pact, I loved the third installment (Rough Beasts of Empire, by David R. George III), and having just read the fourth and final installment, Paths of Disharmony, I am pleased to r
Ape Management Part 5: Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
We have made it, at last, to the fifth and final film in the original Planet of the Apes series! (Click here for my review of Planet of the Apes, here for my review of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, here for my review of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and here […]
News Around the Net!
Lots of fun geeky goodness has been spilling out onto the nets recently, mostly because of the annual San Diego Comic-Con. Did you miss the teaser trailer for The Avengers at the end of Captain America? Check it out here. Pretty sweet. Speaking of teasers, here’s one for The Dar
Ape Management Part 4: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
I’m entering the home stretch of my journey back through the Planet of the Apes film, as I’ve just taken in the fourth installment: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! Click here for my thoughts on Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Escape From the Pla