by mike | Mar 27, 2017 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
If Rise of the Planet of the Apes was outstanding, then its sequel was even better. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes received a great deal of critical acclaim (90% on Rotten Tomatoes), and it took in over $700 million at the box office. Not bad for a franchise once...
by mike | Mar 20, 2017 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
After the “craze” died down following Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973, not a whole lot happened for a long time regarding the series’ return to the big screen. Plans for a remake of the original began in the late ’80s but would wind up in “development hell.”...
by mike | Mar 13, 2017 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
So how did the producers of the first two highly successful Apes films manage to get three more sequels out of the series—especially after the Earth was blown to space debris in the fortieth century at the end of the second movie? Easy; go way back in time and show...
by mike | Mar 5, 2017 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
It began in 1963 as a slim novel, La Planète des Singes, written by Pierre Boulle, a Frenchman. Alternately translated as Monkey Planet or Planet of the Apes, it told the futuristic story of a world turned upside down, a place where apes were the dominant species,...
by mike | Feb 20, 2017 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 1998 sci-fi/disaster flick, Armageddon, grossed well over half a billion dollars—so why is it a Guilty Pleasure? Doubtless because its reviews were uniformly awful. I mean, here is what Roger Ebert had to say: “The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the...
by mike | Feb 13, 2017 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Guest Posts, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Read & Critique, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Author David Lemmo and I go way back to the early nineties, when he became one of the first writers to join a read & critique workshop that I facilitated in my home. David enjoyed reading—and writing—the same genres as I did and, given both his writing abilities...
