O h for heaven's sake — die, already. Immortality is generally not a pressing problem in the real world, where death tends to be both unavoidable and permanent. But increasingly on TV, dying has been reduced to nothing more than a temporary inconvenience. Most often it’s departed series making an unwelcome return, with every surprisingly well-revived show such as The Flash countered by five all-too-easy-to-predict creative duds. We'll go with Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, The X-Files, Charlie's Angels and Uncle Buck, but really, you could find five others with very little effort. In case you haven't noticed, that resurrection act also includes characters. You have Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow and Arrow’s Sara and (sort of) Laurel — and good luck keeping trac...
A fter almost 50 years, nine movies, a television series and a couple of video games, you might wonder just how much more gold can be mined from the Planet of the Apes franchise. The answer, my friends, is plenty – especially when you have ever more mind-boggling, eye-popping special effects and motion-capture technology to bring to the primate party. Pitting conflicted ape leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) against the ruthless human army kingpin Colonel (Woody Harrelson) in an epic battle that promises to determine the fate of both their species, War for the Planet of the Apes is arguably the best film yet. ...