Film Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

I was a huge fan of Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 film, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” He successfully restarted a franchise that had been lying dormant since Burton’s laughably awful “reimagining” in 2001 of the original film franchise. Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” explores the origins of the super-smart primates, the …

del Toro Talks ‘The Hobbit’

It was announced last week that ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ writer and director, Guillermo del Toro would be helming the two-film prequels to Peter Jackson’s enormously successful ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Now with that officially out of the way, del Toro is free to talk about the films and it seems that he has already been …