Saturday 17 December 2011

This prequel to the classic Planet of the Apes successfully reboots the franchise, convincingly explaining how these primates could have in fact ascended to seize control of Earth from man. It begins as an intimate and personal tale that expands methodically into nothing less than the beginning of the end of the world as we know it, with another civilization on the horizon. And I couldn't take my eyes off it.

The movie, which is set in modern day San Francisco, has a cast that includes James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films).

The story is told largely from the point of view of a chimpanzee named Caesar, played by Andy Serkis. It's also chockfull of inside gags for Apes fans, from character names to lines of dialogue to an actual passing reference to Heston's space voyage which started it all in 1968.

Ending on a tease for a potential sequel, it would seem that Fox is banking on this franchise becoming a regular fixture on the blockbuster calendar.

Distributor(s): 20th Century Fox, Dune Entertainment
Director(s): Rupert Wyatt
Starring:
James Franco , Freida Pinto , John Lithgow , Andy Serkis , Brian Cox

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DVD Releases: December 2011

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December 2
- Friends With Benefits (Comedy, Romance) Buy Now!

- The Smurfs (Adventure, Comedy, Family) Buy Now!

December 6
- A Christmas Wedding Tail (Family) Buy Now!

- A Matter of Size (Comedy, Drama, Sports) Buy Now!

- Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: The Complete Series (Action, Sci-Fi, TV) Buy Now!

- Care Bears: Super Cuddly Collection (Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy) Buy Now!

- Cowboys & Aliens (Action, Thriller) Buy Now!

- Curious George: Gets a New Toy (Animation, Family, TV) Buy Now!

- The Debt (Thriller) Buy Now!

- Design for Living (Criterion Collection) (Comedy, Romance) Buy Now!

- Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition (Crime, Drama, Mystery) Buy Now!

- The Hangover Part II (Comedy) Buy Now!

- He's Mine Not Yours (Comedy, Romance) Buy Now!

- The Help (Drama) Buy Now!

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- The Love We Make (Documentary) Buy Now!

- The Lucy Show: The Official Fifth Season (Comedy, TV) Buy Now!

- MacGillivray Freeman's Arabia (Documentary) Buy Now!

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- Michael Feinstein: The Sinatra Legacy (Music) Buy Now!

- Mission: Impossible Trilogy (Extreme Edition Gift Set) (Action, Adventure, Thriller) Buy Now!

- Mr. Popper's Penguins (Comedy, Family) Buy Now!

- Point Blank (Action, Crime, Thriller) Buy Now!

- Psychic Experiment (Horror, Sci-Fi) Buy Now!

- Rapt (Thriller) Buy Now!

- The Simpsons: The Complete Fourteenth Season (Animation, Comedy, TV) Buy Now!

- Skeleton Warriors: The Complete Series (Animation, TV) Buy Now!

- Talking Heads: Chronology (Music) Buy Now!

- The Three Investigators in the Secret of Skeleton Island (Adventure, Family, Mystery) Buy Now!

- Transformers Prime - Darkness Rising (Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller) Buy Now!

- Triple Tap (Action, Thriller) Buy Now!

December 13
- Action Double Feature: 99 and 44/100% Dead/The Nickel Ride (Action) Buy Now!

- Branded to Kill (Criterion Collection) (Action, Crime, Drama) Buy Now!

- Champions (Action) Buy Now!

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- Swamp People: Season Two (Reality TV) Buy Now!

- Switched at Birth: Volume 1 (Drama, Family, TV) Buy Now!

- Tokyo Drifter (Criterion Collection) (Action, Crime, Drama) Buy Now!

December 20
- Act Your Age (Comedy, Drama) Pre-Order

- Blackthorn (Western) Pre-Order

- Catch .44 (Action, Drama, Western) Pre-Order

- Catch .44 (Suspense Thriller) Pre-Order

- Colombiana (Action) Pre-Order

- Dolphin Tale 3D (Adventure, Family) Pre-Order

- Futurama: Volume 6 (Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, TV) Pre-Order

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- Midnight in Paris (Comedy, Romance) Pre-Order

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- One Tree Hill: The Complete Eighth Season (Drama, TV) Pre-Order

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December 27
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- Archer: Season Two (Action, Animation,Comedy) Pre-Order

- The Borgias: The First Season (Crime, Drama, TV) Pre-Order

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- Shameless: The Complete First Season (Comedy, Drama, TV) Pre-Order

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December 2011

December 2

- A Warrior's Heart (limited)
- Answers to Nothing (limited)
- I Am Singh (limited)
- Lads & Jockeys (NY)
- Outrage (limited)
- Pastorela (limited)
- Shame (limited)
- Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) (limited)

December 9

- Catch .44 (NY, Charlotte)
- I Melt with You (limited)
- In Darkness (NY, LA
- 1 week Oscar run; limited: Jan. 27)
- Knuckle (limited)
- Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (limited)
- My Piece of the Pie (NY)
- New Year's Eve
- The Sitter
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (NY, LA; limited: December 16)
- W.E. (LA: 1 week Oscar run; limited: Feb. 3)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (NY, LA: 1 week Oscar run; limited: Jan. 27)
- Young Adult (limited; wide: Dec. 16)

December 12

- Daguerreotypes (NY)

December 16

- Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Chipwrecked
- Carnage (limited)
- Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (limited)
- Mission: Impossible
- Ghost Protocol (IMAX; wide: Dec. 21)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

December 20

- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

December 21

- The Adventures of Tintin (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)
- Albert Nobbs (limited)

December 23

- Don 2 (limited)
- The Flowers of War (NY, LA, SF)
- In the Land of Blood and Honey (limited)
- We Bought a Zoo

December 25

- The Darkest Hour (3D/2D theaters)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (limited; wide: Jan. 20)
- War Horse

December 28

- El Sicario: Room 164 (NY)
- Pariah (limited)

December 30

- A Separation (limited)
- Angels Crest (limited)
- The Iron Lady (limited; expands: Jan. 13)

December TBA

- Chico & Rita (LA)

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November 2011

November 2

- Five Star Day (LA)
- The Other F Word (NY; LA release: November 4)

November 4

- A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (3D/2D theaters)
- Charlotte Rampling: The Look (NY)
- Killing Bono (NY; LA release: Nov. 11)
- The Last Rites of Joe May (limited)
- The Son of No One (limited)
- Tower Heist
- Young Goethe in Love (NY, LA)

November 9

- J. Edgar (limited; wide: Nov. 11)

November 11

- 11-11-11 (limited)
- The Conquest (limited)
- Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (NY; LA release: Nov. 18)
- The Greening of Whitney Brown (NY, LA, limited)
- Immortals (3D/2D theaters)
- Into the Abyss (limited)
- Jack and Jill
- London Boulevard (limited)
- Melancholia (limited)

November 16

- The Descendants (NY, LA; limited release: November 18)
- Tomboy (NY)

November 18

- Another Happy Day (limited)
- Garbo: The Spy (limited)
- Happy Feet Two (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)
- The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (limited)
- In Heaven, Underground (NY)
- The Lie (limited)
- Rid of Me (NY)
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
- Tyrannosaur (limited)

November 23

- A Dangerous Method (NY, LA)
- Arthur Christmas (3D/2D theaters)
- Hugo (3D/2D theaters)
- The Muppets
- My Week with Marilyn (limited)

November 24

- The Legend of Pale Male (limited)

November 25

- The Artist (NY, LA)
- House of Pleasures (limited)
- Romantics Anonymous (NY)

November 30

- Khodorkovsky (NY)
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Movies 2 Watch

Saturday 17 December 2011

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Thursday 15 December 2011

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes