Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" Zira and Cornelius use Taylor's repaired spaceship to escape the holocaust on the ape planet and slipping through a bend in time they land on earth circa 1970. Captured by the military and scrutinised at various hearings, the two apes are subjected to the same xenophobic treatment that their human counterparts encountered in the previous ape instalments. As a sequel to a sequel this is a reasonable movie, although like the others the under
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LA JETEE (1962)
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A milestone in cinematic history, and the inspiration behind Hollywood hit "12 Monkeys". This classic sci-fi short takes one man on a terrifying journey from the post-apocalyptic world he inhabits, back to his childhood and his one distant memory, the face of a woman at the end of a pier. Stunning.
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LA JETEE (1962) / SANS SOLEIL (1983) (1962)
Certification15 Our Rating
'La Jetee' is a milestone in cinematic history, and the inspiration behind Hollywood hit '12 Monkeys'. This classic sci-fi short takes one man on a terrifying journey from the post-apocalyptic world he inhabits, back to his childhood and his one distant memory; the face of a woman at the end of a pier. Stunning.
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PLANET OF THE APES (1967)
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Two astronauts land on a planet populated by apes, but these chimps are no chumps and the men find themselves imprisoned and at the mercy of their furry captors. The enigma of the planet's history, juggled through Heston's humiliating experience of being studied as an interesting laboratory specimen by his ape captors, right down to his final startling rediscovery of civilisation, is quite beautifully sustained.
One interesting fact is that the aristocratic orangutan Dr. Zaius was originally to
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THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964)
Certification12 Our Rating
Before 'I am Legend' there was 'The Omega Man' and before 'The Omega Man' there was 'The Last Man on Earth' - the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's cult novel. Vincent Price stars as the lone human routinely barricading his house at night while scouring the city for vampires to stake by day. After three years of post-apocalyptic desperation, of fruitless radio messages, of mourning both the loss of his family and the failure of his work as a scientific researcher to cure 'the plague', he is
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