The Greatest Story Ever Told

Perhaps a certain fatigue was setting in at the time of the premiere, only a few years after another Jesus epic, King of Kings (1961). This one was targeted by…

The Greatest Show on Earth

Often labeled one of the worst Best Picture Oscar winners ever, this look at all the drama behind the scenes of a big top circus still is a grand epic.…

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…

Ben-Hur: The Gospel of Judah

Charlton Heston. Photo: MGM The kind of film that starts with a five-minute overture, Ben-Hur is about as classic a 1950s Hollywood blockbuster as they come. Burt Lancaster was reportedly…

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Considering its brilliant ending, Planet of the Apes (1968) is hardly a film that cries out for a sequel, but here it is, continuing right where the original shockingly left…

Planet of the Apes

After crash landing on a planet, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) encounters a militant community of talking apes and is forced to fight it. Nothing has been spared regarding visual…