Apes are back on the big screen as the latest instalment in the Planet of the Apes franchise lands in cinemas. From director Wes Ball, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place in a dystopian future in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows

It follows the 2017 threequel War for the Planet of the Apes and takes place 300 years after Caesar’s reign. It sees a new tyrannical ape leader build an empire as one young ape…