Amidst our joyful destruction of the planet and idle apathy as the animal kingdom suffers at our predatory human hands, sometimes nature strikes back with extraordinary violence. Since the origin of time, our worst fear has been of Mother Nature's justified revenge against the various aggressions we've unleashed upon her. A number of filmmakers take mischevious pleasure in playing on our primitive anxieties. The creature feature is one of the earliest cinematic genres, one that provides generous fodder for our B to Z programming and in which the level of cheese is often inversely proportional to that of the budget.

This July, we invite you to climb down a few notches in the evolutionary later to rediscover our distant cousin, the monkey. The first version of "King Kong", dating back to 1933, was a prototype for an entire legacy of movies in which giant monkeys wreak havoc on a modern metropolis. This time, we've opted for "Konga", an unintentionally hilarious variation on Universal's classic original. Here we meet the female version of Kong as she attacks Big Ben in London. "King Kong Lives" is a cringe-worthy follow-up to a miserable remake from 1976 in which King Kong falls off the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Ten years later, the mighty gorilla is given a second chance; and a companion. A wonderful occasion for any movie-goer to fill up on so much ridiculousness that it actually becomes a real pleasure!