One of Hollywood's most innovative and acclaimed science fiction series, "Planet of the Apes," made its DVD debut this month in a boxed set that includes the original 1968 movie, its four sequels and a two-hour documentary, "Behind the Planet of the Apes." ...

According to one definition, a myth is a narrative so powerful and coherent that not even the worst translation can spoil it. In that case, cinema myths should be doubly impervious to damage; for in film, it can take just one strong image to...

Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. He was 73.Capra Jr. died Wednesday night at a hospital in Philadelphia, said Bill Vassar, the executive vice...

Diana Damrau thought about her last staged performances of the Queen of the Night and laughed."It's sports. It's like you want to make the world record in a 50-meter race 200 times a year," the 36-year-old coloratura soprano commented about the notoriously difficult-but-short role in...

[There is a lot of action in "Planet of the Apes"], but more vital are the arguments between apes and man, and, as presented in the screenplay …, they are fascinating. Man does not always come out best. Surprisingly enough, the film has some good humor, thanks, among other things, to the script's putting clichés into the mouths of those apes who think they're so damn smart. The finale of "Planet of the Apes" will make your blood run cold. I can'...