It seems appropriate that I heard news of director George Romero’s passing while leaving a showing of “War for the Planet of the Apes.” Romero was a master at using genre filmmaking as a lens through which to explore social issues like civil rights, consumerism, militarism, and xenophobia. The messages in Romero’s films were rarely […]
Matt Reeves
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Film Review: “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
The latest chapter in the long “Planet of the Apes” saga takes up the action just a few years into the future promised in the ending of the previous film, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Some news reports bring the situation up to date, describing the rapid spread of the “simian virus,” actually […]
