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Does <i>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</i> live up to its predecessors?

Does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes live up to its predecessors?

By Sophie Montecalvo May 20, 2024Movie Monday

Ah, Planet of the Apes. We’ve come from latex masks and low(er) budgets to seamlessly CGI’ed chimpanzees and gorgeous, transporting settings. But has the quality of storytelling remained the same?…

Netflix’s Nimona elevates the themes of Stevenson’s heroine

By Sophie Montecalvo December 11, 2023Movie Monday

I first read ND Stevenson’s Nimona back in high school, a year or two after it was published in 2015. (Published by HarperCollins, that is - it began as a…

The Old Guard: Movie Review

By Sophie Montecalvo April 10, 2023Movie Monday

Once, when I was a kid, I saw a brief glimpse of a movie playing on the hotel TV. Flipping through channels, I paused there. It would be years before…