Another Pass Podcast

With complicated make up, expensive sets, a tight schedule, little support, and brutal weather, it's a miracle that the original Planet of the Apes was made at all! The fact that it spawned such a vast (if mixed) franchise is just as impressive! Paul Kaminski is back to help Sam and Case conclude their retrospective on the Planet of the Apes franchise!

Living up to the incredible original Planet of the Apes film was a Gorilla-ian task that no lower budget sequel was up to, let alone the one that was still working out the kinks. Sam Perez joins Case and Sam for a look Beneath The Planet of The Apes!

The original Planet of the Apes was a landmark film that has remained entrenched in the zeitgeist to this day. The immediate follow up was... not. So how do you course correct the franchise? Flip the script and ask audiences to question how we would handle it if the roles were reversed! Case and Sam are joined by Maynard Bangs from the Reels of Justice podcast to discuss the closest the Planet of the Apes franchise ever got to being a comedy: Escape from the Planet of the Apes!

In the far future of the 1990s, ape will serve man, but humanity is humane, sowing the seeds of uprising. Case and Sam continue their journey backwards (and forwards and then upwards… all the while twirling) through the Planet of the Apes franchise with Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! We're joined by Kale Ryder to light the fires and illuminate this dark entry in the franchise.

As we approach our 150th episode, we're taking a look back at the original Planet of the Apes series, and what better way to handle a series rich with time travel shenanigans than to take them in reverse order? That's right! We're starting with the oft dismissed and forgotten: Battle For The Planet Of The Apes!

Seth Decker from the Film Rescue podcast joins us to combine our editorial voices to proudly proclaim that APE SHALL NEVER KILL APE (until they do)!

When one of your leads dies suddenly in the middle of filming, it takes a lot of creativity to make a finished product, as was the case with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus! Kelsey Lynn Stokes joins Case and Sam to look back at Terry Gilliam's fever dream that almost didn't happen!

The original King Kong was a milestone of special effects and film making tricks, and each generation has tried since to surpass the influential film, including a middling effort in the 70s with an all star cast, a robot gorilla, and a terrible script! Derek Van Dyke and Charlotte Landale from Castle Bravo join Case and Sam to talk about the attempted update at the original kaiju film!

When it comes to a movie that has pervaded the zeitgeist and become shorthand for a type of story, do you dare roll the dice when trying to improve upon it? Kieran Bennett joins us for a conversation about the 1995 film, Jumanji!

From starting as a consolation prize when the studio couldn't get Annie, Popeye was a troubled production every step of the way. Angela "Bones" Bullock joins Case and Sam to see if they can crack a can of spinach open and force feed it to this movie! It am what it am, but could it be more!

The 2017 adaptation of the sprawling French Space Opera, Valérian and Laureline, was not particularly well received, despite incredible world building and stunning visuals, making it perfect for our show. However, this is a pretty big undertaking, so Case and Sam called in Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions to help traverse the Space Oddity that is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.