Dec 24, 2020
For this year’s bonus Chimpsmas Ape-isode, Jack and Geoff welcome back Erin Clarke, Sam Stovold and Kevin Young for a discussion of the little-remembered 1998 direct-to-VHS animated musical The Mighty Kong! Is this a forgotten gem in the King Kong oeuvre, or a bafflingly soulless, perfunctory attempt to re-frame the...
Dec 11, 2020
It’s a return to the POTA, as Jack and Geoff discuss Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film. This feel-good 2019 documentary explores the production of the original Apes movie, and the makeup artists whose seminal work still reverberates throughout the industry to this day. In their spirited discussion, the two...
Nov 30, 2020
Duped! That’s how Jack and Geoff felt after watching Primal, the 2019 Nicolas Cage movie that does NOT—despite what the Japanese poster would have you believe—feature a rampaging gorilla. There’s nary an ape in sight in this low-budget manhunt/animal panic/ocean suspense thriller, but it does have Cage (plus a...
Nov 22, 2020
TVember concludes with a look at The Apes of Wrath, the fourth episode of 2004 British cult classic Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace! Barm and Sean Davis return for an in-depth exploration of this inspired homage to 80’s horror/sci-fi weirdness. Come weave a dream along with...
Nov 6, 2020
Jack and Geoff embark on a month-long exploration of POTA-inspired cult TV episodes as TVember begins! ApeCast theme song composer Amos Dunn is back for a look at awesomely bizarre Australian WWII 60’s spy action comedy Danger 5. Nazi dinosaurs, creaming cocktail recipes, Afro-Cuban jazz-playing Apes...there’s...