Arcane Tales

DVD Review: Battle for the Planet of the Apes Star: Roddy McDowell, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy 1973, 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 1:33 Amazon DVD Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E6ESDA?tag=askdrarca-20 Amazon Blu-Ray Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G7Q0Z0?tag=askdrarca-20 “Every Caesar must have his Brutus” “Ape has killed ape!” You knew it was coming, right? The fifth and final installment of the series [...]

DVD Review: Conquest of The Planet of the Apes Star: Roddy McDowell, Don Murray 1972, 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 1:28 Amazon DVD Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E6ESDU?tag=askdrarca-20 Amazon Blu-Ray Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G7Q13G?tag=askdrarca-20 Around 20 years after the events in “Escape from…” this film picks up with Caesar, the now-grown talking baby ape from the previous installment. Caesar and [...]

DVD Review: Escape From the Planet of the Apes Star: Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter 1971, 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 1:47 Amazon DVD Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E6ESE4?tag=askdrarca-20 Amazon Blu-Ray Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G7Q15O?tag=askdrarca-20 The first two movies showed us man’s encounter with the planet of the apes. This time around, it’s the apes encounter with the “planet of the [...]

DVD Review: Beneath The Planet of the Apes Star: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Charleton Heston 1970, 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 1:35 Amazon DVD Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E6ESDK?tag=askdrarca-20 Amazon Blu-Ray Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G7Q10Y?tag=askdrarca-20 The beginning of this story moves much more quickly than the previous film, as a second spaceship crashes, leaving only astronaut Brent alive. He quickly [...]

DVD Review: Planet of the Apes Star: Charleton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter 1968, 20th Century Fox. Run Time: 1:47 Amazon DVD Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E6ESEO?tag=askdrarca-20 Amazon Blu-Ray Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G7Q186?tag=askdrarca-20 “These animals are dirty! They stink and they carry communicable diseases!” “Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape!” “You blew it up!” It’s been ages [...]