A Doctor Who Podcast
We’ve watched the entire original saga of the Planet of the Apes, now we move on to the “reboot” series ahead of the the sequel coming out July 11th.
Join us on Saturday, July 5th at 11:30 PM CDT for Rise of the Planet of the Apes!
View evolution become revolution in the film Keith called the best movie of 2011.
As always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FlicksWithFriends and #RiseofApes
Join us for the final installment of the EPIC Planet of the Apes saga….Battle For the Planet of the Apes!
Join us Tuesday June 10th when we press play for the tweet along at 11:30 PM CDT!
We’ll use the hashtags #FlicksWithFriends #BattleforPotA! Join us you dirty humans!
It’s official! Conquest of the Planet of the Apes takes place tomorrow (Tuesday May 20th) at 11:30 CDT!
Join us on twitter for the tweet a-long and find out how the Apes take over planet earth!
Keep any eye out for the hashtag #ConquestofPotA & #FlicksWithFriends
We’ve been working our way through the Planet of the Apes films…and now we are ready for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes!
Vote below on when works best for you to tweet along to the 4th film in the series.
I will announce the winner once the poll closes on May 17th! So vote soon!
When should we hold the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes tweet-a-long?
Total Voters: 5
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There has been several inquiries to when we will hold the next Planet of the Apes themed Flicks With Friends.
Sorry we’ve been delayed in getting around to it this month…you know life gets in the way…or maybe vacation. With Keith’s excursion to St. Louis and another Flicks With Friends goer (and recent Apes convert) heading to Disney with his family and not returning until 4/18
Sound off on the poll below on when you want to watch Escape from the Planet of the Apes!
I will announce the winning date and time after the poll closes on April 21st! So vote now!
When works best for you to do the next Flicks With Friends
Total Voters: 10
Loading ...After much interest in continuing last month this month with shall continue with the Planet of the Apes theme with the next film Beneath the Planet of the Apes!
Join us as we press play on this 1970 classic at 11:30 PM CDT on Thursday March 13th.
If you want to join and don’t own this one don’t fret! It is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
And as always don’t forget to use the hashtags #FlickWithFriends and #BeneaththePlanetoftheApes (we might want to consider shortening that second one…maybe #BeneathPotA…for that matter perhaps we should re-brand this as #ApesWithFriends)
As promised, here’s the upcoming schedule for those of you who like to follow along at home…
Friday Night Who on 1/31 is the Christopher Eccleston two parter, “Aliens In London” / “World War III”.
Saturday February first at 10pm is a special Flicks With Friends. Join us for the original Planet Of The Apes.
TTV #162 has our reviews of the next two Paul McGann Big Finish stories #75 “Scaredy Cat” and #77 “Other Lives”.
FNW 2/7 is 7th Doctor (and recent addition to the Kanas City Planet Comicon guest list) Sylvester McCoy in “Survival”.
Fun and Games are on the docket for TTV #163 as we talk about Doctor Who Legacy, Doctor Who Monopoly, and the Doctor Who Card Game.
A romantic Friday Night Who for Valentine’s Day celebrates the secret love the Doctor and the Rani share. Or is it the clandestine threesome with the Master? Whatever. We’re celebrating Colin Baker being at Gally, so on 2/14 it’s “The Mark Of The Rani”.
Keith and Glenn will tackle some book reviews on TTV #164: Keith is reading the third Doctor story Harvest Of Time by Alistair Reynolds while Glenn tackles the tenth Doctor story The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards. And while Shaun will be recovering from Gally and enjoying the So Cal Sunshine, he’s committed to trying to read Spiral Scratch by Gary Russell, featuring the sixth Doctor.
Peter Davison (and Adric) returns to FNW on 2/21 for “Earthshock”.
Now of course we’ll have all the updates and side trips from Gally as the weekend progresses, but the full blown story of the 25 Years Of Galifrey One will unfold in episode #165.
And a real treat for Friday Night Who on 2/28 as we watch Patrick Troughton in the soon-to-be-just released in North America “The Moonbase” with completed animation segments!
and for Traveling The Vortex #166 we’ll review “The Moonbase” along with the second in last year’s 50th anniversary E Books, “The Nameless City”.
More goodies on tap for March, including all the awesomeness that is sure to be Kansas City Planet Comicion. Stay tuned!
Hello friends! It’s been a while, but we are thinking of resuming Flicks with Friends! Our plan is in the next week host a Tweet-A-Long to the original 1968 film “Planet of the Apes” (it’s even available to stream on Netflix!)
Here’s where you come in! Vote on the poll below on what day and time would work best for you!
When would work best for you to do the next Flicks With Friends?
Total Voters: 7
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“The Planet Of The Apes” series has always been a wonderful mishmash of promise and failure, of genius and camp, and of fear and fun. The original film is of course, a classic, with a screenplay co-written by Rod Serling, an amazing anti-hero played by Charlton “Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” Heston, and the immortal Roddy McDowell buried under fantastic makeup as Corneileous.
“Beneath The Planet Of The Apes” followed the same formula with mixed results, “Escape From The Planet Of The Apes” brought Cornelius and Zira back through the time warp to present day (well, the bellbottom clad seventies anyway), “Battle For The Planet Of The Apes” saw the beginnings of the intelligent apes and how they would take over, and with “Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes” the series comes full circle as the apes rule the Earth.
Individually these films are full of Saturday afternoon silliness, string them together and you get a surprisingly coherent narrative thread that links them all together. “The Planet Of The Apes” television series was more of the same silly, and the Tim Burton Remake of 2001, while visually impressive, failed to re-ignite the franchise.
Now comes “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes”, a “Batman Begins”-esq… retelling of the story. Not a remake, sequel or prequel, the film is the first in what Fox hopes will become a new Apes franchise. Enter researcher Will Rodman (James Franco) who is searching for the cure to Alzheimer’s to help his ailing father (John Lithgow), but the experimental drug tested on chimps not only heals neural pathways, but increases intelligence, setting the stage for the apes to ultimately rise.
All the performances are good here, especially Lithgow, Brian Cox and Tom Felton, (and special shout out to David Hewitt, managing to be VERY Dr. McKay from Stargate: Atlantis, while not having a single line of technobabble,) but the star is Andy Serkis, (Gollum from “Lord Of The Rings” and the title character in Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” remake) in the role of Caesar, the chimp responsible for leading the eventual rebellion. Buried under not make up, but visual effects, Andy portrays more depth and emotion as Caesar than some of his human counterparts. If the academy chooses not to honor Serkis with a Oscar nod for best actor, it’s time to boycott.
The visual effects in this movie are amazing and the plot is solid and entertaining. It should appeal to die hard fans of the “hard” science fiction that was the first film, as well as folks who enjoy the goofy fun of the sequels. But what made the film for me were the constant in-jokes and references: At one point, a character is watching another Charlton Heston film, the space mission Icarus is name dropped, other apes are named Corneila, and Bright Eyes, Caesar holds a model of the statue of liberty, and late in the film, steals a mounted police man’s horse. When he emerges out of the fog on the Golden Gate Bridge on horseback, well my friends, THAT is what makes a Planet Of The Apes movie.
And of course, the line. No Apes film would be truly complete with out that line.
* Follow Up: Just re-watched the movie on Blu Ray, and I’m pleased that it holds up just as well on repeated viewings. An INTELLIGENT science fiction film!
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – A+