The weekly TV series that followed the first two miniseries showed the evil visitors making a dramatic comeback on Earth, reigniting the war; they were only hiding behind the moon.…

V: The Fourth Reich

Greta Blackburn, Frank Ashmore and Jane Badler. Photo: NBC A major hit in several countries when first shown on TV, this miniseries frightened me to the degree that I could…

Music Box 

When Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused of having committed war crimes in Hungary 40 years earlier, his daughter, attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), decides to represent him. Another politically…

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

The fifth and concluding chapter in the original Planet of the Apes series presents apes as eloquent and bright as the ones in the first movie, a gigantic leap from…

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

The third, fourth and fifth films in this Planet of the Apes series explore how apes came to rule the Earth. In the near future, in the year of 1991,…

Escape From the Planet of the Apes

In this third part in the Planet of the Apes series, Zira (Kim Hunter), Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and a colleague of theirs (Sal Mineo) journey to present-day Earth; as one…