Movie News: Surprising figures for The Help

For the past three weeks, The Help, has been the number 1 film at the US Box Office. It’s the first movie since Inception to have topped the charts in the US for three consecutive weekends. An adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name, set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights period in 1960’s America, centres on a white woman’s relationship with two black maids. To everyone’s surprise The Help has managed to hold off the... Read More

Cinema Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Leon Nicholson reviews Rise of the Planet of the Apes On General Release at UK Cinemas, August 11th, 2011 After 6 films, some of them good, some distinctly average, others bad; a short lived TV series, an animated adaptation and the original book, comes the reboot and prequel – the origins to The Planet of the Apes mythology. Set in the present day, Will Rodman (James Franco) is a brilliant scientist who works for Gensys, where, driven by his... Read More

Feature: Rise Of The Apes

Uniting the talents behind The Lord Of The Rings and Avatar, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes aims to reinvent one of cinema’s most compelling sci-fi franchises — while also taking the next visual-effects quantum leap. Dan Jolin went behind the scenes to find out more. Soon after arriving at the expansive Mammoth Studios in Vancouver Canada, home to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, we are informed of something very important, in no uncertain terms: “This,”... Read More