
A Trifecta of What's Best on the Box Oct 22
Saturday, October 21, 2017 Filed in: BC on TV
Planet of the Apes, 2.05pm Fox Classics. Watch this if you liked Aliens, 2001: A Space Odyssey or Aguirre: The Wrath of God BEST FILM OF THE DAY.
The monkey-suit sequels and the dreadful Tim Burton/Marky Mark 2001
remake obscure one of Hollywood’s – and, indeed, the world’s – best-ever
films. It offers stunning cinematography, an unassailable script,
superb costuming and even a great performance from Charlton Heston as
the leader of the US spaceship crew landing on a planet where the roles
of apes and humans are reversed; the last frame