I am divided on this movie. It has a cool premise: a group of kids decides to charter a guide to take them to the restricted site of Chernobyl, Ukraine, where a nuclear reactor plant experienced a meltdown and rendered the surrounding countryside exposed to high levels of radiation. Definitely a place that the local government has made unavailable to public access because of health concerns. Well, our group gets through the blockaded area and explores the abandoned ruins of the town left behind. The guide notices that there is evidence of activity in the supposedly dead place and urges [More]
“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” is my favorite sequel in the ape picture cycle. Charlton Heston, “Taylor” and his companion, “Nova”, continue on their quest to find an Eden on the scorched planet away from the dominant species apes they have more than had their fill of following the telling of the first Ape movie, “Planet of the Apes”. The two end up being imprisioned by a mutant race of humans living among the nuclear war shattered ruins of New York city. The mutants worship a doomsday bomb that comes in to play later on in the movie. Enter James Franciscus as [More]