Lawrence Konner

Date of Birth

1949-09-14

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The Jewel of the Nile: The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Jason With Disney’s Jungle Cruise looking to revive the romantic-adventure genre, the filmmakers cited the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner classic Romancing the Stone as one of their key inspirations. That film, which holds up beautifully thirty-seven years later, actually got a lesser-known sequel...

Movie Endings Explained – Planet of the Apes (1968)

Posted 6 years ago

Jason Movie endings, they're usually pretty straight forward right? Everything pays off, the main characters learn something, and our heroes ride off into the sunset. Sometimes though, we don't get the typical ending from a movie, we get something much...

Awfully Good Movies – Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Video)

Posted 9 years ago

Jason Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Director: Sidney J. Furie Stars: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder With the JUSTICE LEAGUE making their anticipated cinematic debut, and Superman rising back from the dead to join them (SPOILER ALERT, my ass),...

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Awfully Good: Planet of the Apes + video edition of Battle of the POTA!

Posted 12 years ago

Jason Planet of the Apes (2001) Director: Tim Burton Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter Earth's most unqualified astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet where things are about to get a little hairy! The makeup in this...

Cool Videos: Everything Wrong with Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes

Posted 12 years ago

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES hits theaters next week, so I can’t think of a better time for the CinemaSins guys to tear into Tim Burton‘s PLANET OF THE APES. Surprisingly it’s only a nine minute video; you...

WTF trailer for Korean gorilla baseball movie Mr. Go features a lot of yelling and jumping

Posted 13 years ago

Sometimes you just can’t resist and when I saw a gorilla playing baseball there was no turning back. This new trailer for MR. GO, a 3D Korean film about an 800-pound gorilla who joins a professional baseball team looks every...

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Awfully Good: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Posted 13 years ago

Jason Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Director: Sidney J. Furie Stars: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Mariel Hemingway Superman fights against nuclear weapons and bankruptcy. To understand exactly how SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE killed the Man of...

The UnPopular Opinion: Planet of the Apes

Posted 13 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We’re hoping this column...