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• Why 'Planet of the Apes' Is the Greatest Science Fiction Film Series of All Time
• Your Top Three: Favorite Movies of 2014 So Far
• Watch: The Schmoes Review 'Deliver Us from Evil,' 'Tammy' and 'Earth to Echo'
• Watch a Wild Short Documentary That Takes You to a Very Real 'Planet of the Apes'
• Alicia Silverstone's Sweet Virtual Fitting Room from 'Clueless' Is Now a Reality
• Why That Mirror Shot in 'Contact' Is Even More Complicated Than It Looks
• Watch: Seth Rogen Reveals the One Thing That Ties All His Movies Together
• Here's the Harsher 'Edge of Tomorrow' Ending You Never Got to See
• Movie News: 'Fast & Furious 7' Release-Date Change, Plus: Tina Fey, 'Sex Tape' and More
• See the First Image of Superman in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'

Why 'Planet of the Apes' Is the Greatest Science Fiction Film Series of All Time Posted: 03 Jul 2014 09:00 PM PDT Welcome to The Last Sci-fi Blog, our biweekly column about all things science fiction in movies. Planet of the Apes is the greatest science fiction movie series of all time. This is as close to a fact as opinions about movie franchises get. Seriously. The math backs it up. But what about Star Wars, you ask? Okay. Well, there are six Star Wars movies, but only two of them (the 1977 original and The Empire Strikes Back) are universally beloved. That's a success rate of roughly 33%. Some of you will definitely go to bat for Star Trek, but of the 11 feature films, only a handful truly hold up: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country and 2011's reboot, Star Trek. That's also a 33% success rate, give or... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Your Top Three: Favorite Movies of 2014 So Far Posted: 03 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT Your Top Three is a series here at Movies.com where we choose a topic and you give us your top three picks. At the midpoint of every year, we like to ask everyone for their favorite movies released so far. A lot of the best films that come out through the year are done so in limited release and maybe don't even expand to your neck of the woods. And then you forget about them and possibly don't even notice when they've dropped on DVD or VOD. Clearly today's poll is all about providing a crowd-sourced service to movie lovers. First, to put things into perspective, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Lego Movie are currently the two top-grossing movies in the U.S. Interestingly enough, they're also among the best of the year according to many of you... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Watch: The Schmoes Review 'Deliver Us from Evil,' 'Tammy' and 'Earth to Echo' Posted: 03 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT The Schmoes, Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis, not only have their Schmoes Know Movie Show on Movies.com—they're reviewing movies for us too. You can watch more of their reviews here.   Deliver Us from Evil   Earth to Echo   Tammy     MORE FROM AROUND THE WEB: ZergNet (function() { var zergnet = document.createElement('script'); zergnet.type = 'text/javascript'; zergnet.async = true; zergnet.src = 'http://www.zergnet.com/zerg.js?id=15794'; var znscr = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; znscr.parentNode.insertBefore(zergnet, znscr); })(); Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Watch a Wild Short Documentary That Takes You to a Very Real 'Planet of the Apes' Posted: 03 Jul 2014 04:30 PM PDT We recently brought you three new short films designed to bridge the gap between the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and in that story we also included a trailer for Vice’s new mini-documentary The Real Planet of the Apes, which explores Monkey Island in Liberia. The full doc is now online, and if you’ve got 20 minutes to spare, it’s really interesting. The film chronicles the history of a medical research lab in the African country that performed testing on chimps. Said chimps were then released into the wild on a series of isolated islands, where they still live to this day. While the initial voyage to Monkey Island is quite terrifying (the chimps are extremely aggressive…), this only... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Alicia Silverstone's Sweet Virtual Fitting Room from 'Clueless' Is Now a Reality Posted: 03 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT   Company Metail is about to make all your clothes-horse and Clueless dreams come true. The creatives there have created a virtual fitting room that allows you to dress just like ‘90s-era heroine Cher from Amy Heckerling’s film starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy. Remember this?   Australian rapper Iggy Azalea recently resurrected the yellow-plaid image of the Clueless icon in her music video for “Fancy,” but fashionable film geeks have been obsessed with the sweet, spoiled Valley Girl (whose life is based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma) since she uttered her first “As if!” With Metail’s “MeModel,” you can create a virtual image of yourself and try on some cute... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Why That Mirror Shot in 'Contact' Is Even More Complicated Than It Looks Posted: 03 Jul 2014 01:30 PM PDT Today an animated GIF of the staircase shot from Contact hit the front page of Reddit. And that's great, because if you're a regular reader, you may remember that we've already explained why Contact is the best science fiction movie no one talks about. Well, today people are talking about it, so I wanted to join in and further explain the deeper meaning of this shot. First, the technical explanation, and then the thematic explanation that kicks everything to the next level. It's a very clever cinematography trick accomplished by filming three different shots and blending them together. Shot A is Jena Malone running up the stairs. Shot B is the opening of a medicine cabinet with a blue screen where the mirror would be. Shot C (not included in the GIF below... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Watch: Seth Rogen Reveals the One Thing That Ties All His Movies Together Posted: 03 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ The Big Idea series interviews various creative people and asks them to identify a unifying theme in their work. The latest installment features Seth Rogen, who reveals the one thing that ties all his films together is the idea of friendship. And you thought it was going to be bodily function humor… Rogen reveals lots of interesting tidbits in this three-minute clip, including the idea that the friendship element that colors all of his films is not only present because he thinks everything in life is better with a few pals around to enjoy it, but because it’s a relatively sweet thing that makes some of the other elements in his films more palatable. Pretty clever. One of the most interesting moments comes... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Here's the Harsher 'Edge of Tomorrow' Ending You Never Got to See Posted: 03 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT The ending of Edge of Tomorrow has provoked more discussion than that of any other major release this year. Love it or hate it, we think it's a good thing if a movie can get you talking about it long after the credits roll. And now, a month after it hit theaters, we're still talking about it. Only, this time, we're talking about the ending writer Christopher McQuarrie originally had in mind. Heads up: Even though we're talking about an ending that never happened, we will also be talking about the movie's actual ending. Be warned, spoilerphobes. McQuarrie, who was hired to do some last-minute rewrites on the movie, recently spoke to Film School Rejects, where he mentioned when he came to the project, the movie had a harsh ending. He doesn't say what... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Movie News: 'Fast & Furious 7' Release-Date Change, Plus: Tina Fey, 'Sex Tape' and More Posted: 03 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT Fast & Furious 7: Dwayne Johnson recently completed filming his role in Fast & Furious 7 and shared a photo of himself with cast and crew members. Meanwhile, Universal has decided to move up the release of the blockbuster one week, to April 3, 2015, and will open it in theaters worldwide on the same day. [Dwayne Johnson/The Hollywood Reporter]   Tina Fey: If you felt a disturbance in "The Force" (i.e., social media) yesterday, it's because of a rumor that Tina Fey would join in producing Hocus Pocus 2, a sequel to the fan-favorite 1993 comedy about three witch sisters who are resurrected in the modern day. It turns out that Fey will star in and produce another witch comedy, currently untitled, and not Hocus Pocus 2. The project is still in the... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

See the First Image of Superman in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' Posted: 03 Jul 2014 08:03 AM PDT The other day brought us the first image of Henry Cavill as Clark Kent in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and now here comes our first look at Kent's alter ego, Superman, courtesy of USA Today. Happy Fourth of July to you, too!   Director Zack Snyder says the movie will be "thicker, denser and more epic" than Man of Steel, with a bunch more characters appearing to help pave the way for an upcoming Justice League movie in 2017. Aside from Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), the film will also see Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and reportedly Aquaman (Jason Momoa), though he's not mentioned in the article. In addition, returning Man of Steel cast members include Amy Adams (Lois Lane) and Laurence Fishburne (Perry White), with Jesse... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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