83% (3)  War for the Planet of the Apes  140 min,  PG-13,  [Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller]  [Matt Reeves]  [14 Jul 2017]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 75%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 93%,   Metacritic: 82%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 22 wins & 46 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
Writer:  Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves, Rick Jaffa (based on characters created by), Amanda Silver (based on characters created by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, American Sign Language    Country:  USA, Canada, New Zealand
Plot:  Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
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81% (3)  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes  130 min,  PG-13,  [Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi]  [Matt Reeves]  [11 Jul 2014]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 76%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 90%,   Metacritic: 79%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 47 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell
Writer:  Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa (based on characters created by), Amanda Silver (based on characters created by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, American Sign Language    Country:  USA, UK, Canada
Plot:  A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species. (c) Fox
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75% (3)  Rise of the Planet of the Apes  105 min,  PG-13,  [Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller]  [Rupert Wyatt]  [05 Aug 2011]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 76%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 82%,   Metacritic: 68%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 42 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, James Franco, Karin Konoval, Richard Ridings, Terry Notary
Writer:  Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Sign Languages    Country:  USA, UK, Canada
Plot:  At the story's heart is Caesar (Andy Serkis), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary - putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other -- and to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The Oscar-winning visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of Avatar and Lord of the Rings is breaking new ground, creating a CGI ape that delivers a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence, and epic battles on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate. -- (C) Official Site
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71% (3)  The Adventures of Tintin  107 min,  PG,  [Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery]  [Steven Spielberg]  [21 Dec 2011]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 73%,   Metacritic: 68%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 60 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Nick Frost
Writer:  Hergé (based on "The Adventures of Tintin" by), Steven Moffat (screenplay by), Edgar Wright (screenplay by), Joe Cornish (screenplay by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA, New Zealand, UK
Plot:  Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present a 3D Motion Capture Film The Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham. -- (C) Official Site
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67% (3)  Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll  115 min,  TV-MA,  [Biography, Drama, Music]  [Mat Whitecross]  [05 May 2010]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 78%,   Metacritic: 57%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Tom Hughes
Writer:  Paul Viragh
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  UK
Plot:  Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs with no dressing rooms Ian moves onto chart success with the Blockheads, collaborating with musician Chaz Jankel. His private life is complicated as, separated from the tolerant Betty with whom he remains friends but refuses to divorce for many years, he lives with the much younger Denise along with his adored son Baxter, who will himself become a performer. Ian dies in 2000, having packed an enormous amount of living into a comparatively short life.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Andy Serkis stars as volatile British new wave icon Ian Dury in this biopic from BAFTA-nominated director Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo). As a young boy, Dury nearly died after being stricken with polio. Though the ravaging disease would leave him permanently disabled, however, it would also instill him with the drive and perseverance to become one of the most influential musicians of his generation. Along with his band Ian Dury & the Blockheads, the unpredictable rocker would become a key figure in the new wave movement of the late '70s. But through it all Dury's abrasive behavior never subsided, even during quiet moments with his delicate young son, Baxter (Bill Milner). Ray Winstone, Naomie Harris, and Olivia Williams co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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61% (3)  13 Going on 30  98 min,  PG-13,  [Comedy, Fantasy, Romance]  [Gary Winick]  [23 Apr 2004]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 64%,   Metacritic: 57%,   External Reviews
Awards:  11 nominations.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Mark Ruffalo
Writer:  Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Portuguese    Country:  USA
Plot:  After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. Unfortunately, Jenna realizes that this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she finds him, he's a grown up, and not the same person that she knew.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being stranded without a willing make-out partner. Humiliated, Jenna buries herself in the aforementioned make-out closet, wishing she could skip the whole adolescence bit and move straight into adulthood, and miraculously wakes up just weeks away from her 30th birthday. Of course, a lot has changed since going to bed the night before, not the least of which being an impressive set of womanly curves. The new, older Jenna (Jennifer Garner) is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors -- including a hockey-playing boyfriend and a swarthy married man. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body; Jenna not only finds living on her own more terrifying than cool, but is quick to dismiss any male over the age of 14 as "gross." Half excited, half mortified, Jenna seeks out Matt (Mark Ruffalo), whom she learns she had spurned as a teenager in an effort to join the popular crowd. Gary Winick directed the film, from a script by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa; Gina Matthews produced. Choreographer Michael Peters -- who died in 1994 -- received posthumous credit, as his choreography from the Michael Jackson Thriller video is used in one scene. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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49% (2)  Inkheart  106 min,  PG,  [Adventure, Family, Fantasy]  [Iain Softley]  [23 Jan 2009]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 38%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win.
Actors:  Andy Serkis, Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Richard Strange, Sienna Guillory
Writer:  David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), Cornelia Funke (novel)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  Germany, UK, USA
Plot:  Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Mortimer "Mo" Folchart and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie, share an extraordinary gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: when a character is brought to life from a book, a real person disappears into its pages. On one of their trips to a secondhand book shop, Mo locates a book he's been searching for since Meggie was three years old, when her mother, Resa, vanished into its mystical world. But Mo's plan to use the book to find and rescue Resa is thwarted when Capricorn, the evil villain of "Inkheart," kidnaps Meggie and, discovering she has inherited her father's gift, demands that she bring to life his most powerful ally, the Shadow. Determined to rescue his daughter and send the fictional characters back where they belong, Mo assembles a small group of friends and family--some from the real world, some from the pages of books--and embarks on a daring and perilous journey to set things right.
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