Three-disc set includes Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011) A research scientist (James Franco) tests a drug on a group of chimpanzees, greatly increasing their intelligence before he's forced to put them all down. That is, all but Caesar (Andy Serkis in a voice and motion-capture performance), one of the test subjects' offspring, whose enhanced brain capacity enables him to lead his fellow primates in a violent revolution against humanity. Provocative reboot of the classic sci-fi film series also stars Freida Pinto, John Lithgow. 105 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) Ten years after a devastating virus wiped out much of humanity, a small band of survivors in San Francisco has established an uneasy peace with chimpanzee Caesar (a motion-captured Andy Serkis who also supplies his voice) and his community of intelligent apes who live in the nearby Muir Woods. But co-existence may be ultimately out of reach as members of both species seem bound and determined to make war. Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell co-star in this hit sequel. 130 min. C/Rtg PG-13 War For The Planet Of The Apes (2017) The third chapter in the rebooted sci-fi film franchise finds ape leader Caesar's (Andy Serkis in a voice and motion-capture performance) forces locked in a desperate conflict with the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a ruthless human whose army also includes a group of traitorous primates. As the war reaches it's apex, the virus that decimated much of humanity begins to cause some of the remaining survivors to slowly devolve into more primitive creatures. With Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Amiah Miller.
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Six-disc set includes (1979) On it's way back to Earth, a spacecraft is re-routed to a remote planet to investigate a distress call. When a member of the landing party returns to the ship as the unwilling host of a seemingly indestructible extraterrestrial creature that bleeds acid, the crew must destroy the alien before it kills them all. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, and John Hurt star in Ridley Scott's classic mix of horror and sci-fi. 116 min. C/Rtg R Alien's (1986) James Cameron's action-packed sequel finds Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) accompanied by a platoon of space marines as she reluctantly returns to the planet where her crew discovered the alien. But their mission to rescue a group of colonists turns into a desperate battle for survival as they find themselves up against an entire hive of the lethal creatures. Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen also star. 137 min. C/Rtg R Alien 3 (1992) In the third installment in the hit sci-fi series, Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on a bleak prison planet inhabited by male criminals, killers, and rapists. With no weapons of any kind, Ripley and the inmates will have to find a way to kill a new breed of alien that has begun to terrorize their colony. With Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, and Lance Henriksen; directed by David Fincher (his feature film debut). Theatrical version; 115 min./Extended version; 144 min. C/Rtg R Alien Resurrection (1997) They've brought her back from the dead... but they didn't bring her back alone. Sigourney Weaver stars as the newly cloned Ellen Ripley, a mix of human and alien DNA. Trapped on a giant spaceship overrun with aliens, Ripley joins with a group of mercenaries in an effort to escape before the vessel collides with Earth. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's (InchThe City of Lost Children
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