2024-07-01
An Air Force pilot is assigned to teach chimps how to operate a flight simulator, but discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation as well, so he teams with a researcher to try and save the simians. (Repeat).
Director Tim Burton reimagines the 1968 sci-fi classic in this visually stunning feature set in 2029. Mark Wahlberg stars as an astronaut who crash-lands on a planet where dignified apes rule with an iron fist and subservient humans are treated like chattel. Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, Kris Kristofferson, David Warner, Estella Warren. (Repeat).
Created in a San Francisco lab by an ambitious father-and-son scientist team seeking to cure Alzheimer's disease, genetically engineered chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis) uses his powerful intellect to lead an ape uprising in this thrilling sci-fi prequel. (Repeat).
An army of alien spaceships attack Earth and threaten to destroy the human race, but a handful of survivors band together to stop the invasion. (Repeat).
This stunning sci-fi sequel finds the nations of Earth banding together to fight off a second alien invasion, 20 years after the first attack brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Using recovered extraterrestrial technology, the alliance readies itself for a massive war. (Repeat).
A subterranean tremor beneath the streets of L.A. releases a lava flow, which threatens to turn the city into a blazing inferno. Only through the efforts of an emergency chief and a geologist can the population be saved from the encroaching molten threat. (Repeat).
An examination of the process of making movies follows a production from script to screen.
Zany antics aboard ship. Tries hard for laughs; achieves a few. Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden. Rush: Warren Berlinger. Bintle: Gale Gordon. Bosun: Joe E. Ross. Directed by Norman Taurog. (Repeat).
Shirley Temple stars in a charming excursion into the dream world of childhood in this adaptation of the Maurice Maeterlinck classic play about a woodchopper's children who go off in search of the fabled bird that will bring happiness. (Repeat).
The adventures of four Navy Seabees on a Japanese-held island during World War II. Cip: John Brinkley. Jim: Brett Halsey. George: James Edwards. Dave: John Lupton. Girl: Ziva Rodann. Directed by Bernard L. Kowlaski. (Repeat).
A USO performer touring postwar Japan meets her ex, who tries to win her back; but she has no shortage of suitors among the troops. (Repeat).
An undercover man (Robert Stack) in Tokyo tries to crack a crime ring. Robert Ryan, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Sessue Hayakawa, Brad Dexter. Written and directed by Sam Fuller. (Repeat).
The story of Townsend Harris, the American consul general sent to Japan in 1856 to improve relations. John Wayne. Heusken: Sam Jaffe. Okichi: Eiko Ando. Tamura: So Yamamura. Directed by John Huston. (Repeat).