Posts Tagged ‘Andy Serkis’
Film Review – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
There is a pivotal scene early into Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) where the orangutan Raka (Peter Macon) shows a book to the chimpanzee Noa (Owen Teague). “It contains ideas,” Raka says, “The symbols have meaning.” It’s this exchange that best exemplifies the post…
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Episode 105 – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
For this week’s podcast, we review Marvel‘s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Keith reviews the new Nicholas Cage meta-comedy, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. We also talk about the history of the American rating system and debate the merits of the…
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Episode 100 – The Batman
This week, we celebrate our 100th episode with The MacGuffin. Patrick of the Consume Us Podcast helps us rank every live-action solo Batman film released since 1989, including an official review of the latest iteration – Matt Reeve’s The Batman. We go into everything that…
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Film Review – Black Panther
Perhaps to acknowledge the ways in which Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther succeeds, it’s first important to recognize the context of its positionality. At this point in the lineage of Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe, we’ve seen over the course of ten years and seventeen films an…
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Top 15 Films of 2017 – Allen’s Picks
When it comes to making these end of year lists, I usually take it in stride. I never really think about them for too long, since it’s just an exercise in futility. But 2017 was such a strong year at the movies, with good to…
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Film Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ever since A New Hope was released in 1977, every Star Wars film followed the same basic formula: operatic space battles between good and evil, with a central character being pulled in both directions, whose final choice could decide the fate of all. From the…
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Film Review – The Shape of Water
In their truest form, fairy tales, especially the ones that have lasted over time, have a dark undercurrent to them. They might be about something fanciful, but often there is something sinister lurking around the edges of the story in their original form. The Little…
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Film Review – War for the Planet of the Apes
After gaining awareness, leading an uprising and starting an independent life, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his society of evolved apes have one more transgression to contend with before as the latter part of the title indicates, inheriting a planet. The third film in Twentieth Century…
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