Planet of the Apes: Man is a Beast

Kim Hunter, Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. Photo: 20th Century Fox The basic concept of this wildly successful movie is Pierre Boulle’s idea of a future where space travelers end…

Around the World in Eighty Days 

In the late 1800s, London aristocrat Phileas Fogg (David Niven) makes a wager with fellow members at the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in as little…

The Force Awakens: Saving Another Franchise

Adam Driver, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley. Photo: Lucasfilm There are some people out there who call themselves fans of Star Wars but still pretend like the trilogy of prequels…

Jurassic World

Twenty years after the disaster that closed Jurassic Park, a new theme park with dinosaurs is open… but a genetically modified dinosaur figures out a way to escape. The fourth…

Avengers: Age of Ultron 

When a program devised by Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) called Ultron becomes unexpectedly sentient and immediately targets The Avengers as a threat that needs to be extinct, our superheroes…

How to Train Your Dragon 2 

A few years after the events of the first movie, Hiccup and his village are drawn into a battle against a conqueror who knows how to trap and control dragons.…

Superman: The Rise of Reeve

Christopher Reeve. Photo: Warner Some of the most amusing behind-the-scenes stories surrounding this now classic superhero movie concern Marlon Brando, who plays Superman’s dad Jor-El in the ten-minute long, impressively…

Mulan 

When each family is given a conscription notice from the Chinese Emperor so he can build an army to fight the Hun, a young girl pretends to be a man…

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) escapes from prison and creates a powerful new enemy for Superman (Christopher Reeve) with a little help from Superman's hair, a nuclear missile – and the…

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 

The dragon Smaug flies to Esgaroth to destroy the town, but greater challenges await in the shape of a coming battle for Lonely Mountain. The final part of this trilogy…