If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The first must-see film of the year.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

EMPIRE OF THE APES is an indescribably bad shot-on-video indie rip-off of PLANET OF THE APES featuring a bunch of jerks running around in the woods in gorilla masks and pronouncing their dialogue really badly. It's even worse than PLAY-MATE OF THE APES, a previous erotic version of the story I saw. The main characters are a trio of astronaut women wearing very little and delivering their dialogue in an embarrassing way. The video FX help to ensure that this is nightmarishly amateurish.