Project Nim is a documentary about a chimpanzee transported from the wild and used in a project by Columbia professor Herbert Terrace who wanted to study what would happen if an ape was raised in close proximity to humans. In true human fashion, Terrace and his assistants quickly discover they’ve taken on too much, and [...]
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Live on @Twitter: PROJECT NIM (2011).
Posted: May 14, 2012 in Apes, Documentaries, Live On @Twitter, Movies (P)0
My Top 50 Movies Of All Time (At This Exact Point In Time.)
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Skeletons., Werewolves, Pretty Girls, Ninjas, Aliens, Clint, Westerns, Bill Murray, Awesomeness, Michael Mann, Lee Marvin, Movies (A), Movies (C), Movies (E), Movies (F), Movies (G), Movies (H), Movies (I), Movies (K), Movies (M), Movies (N), Movies (O), Movies (P), Movies (Q), Movies (R), Movies (T), Movies (U), Movies (W), Monsters, Sharks, Claudia Cardinale, Apes, Badass Old Guys, Violence, John Belushi, John Landis, Alligators, Pooping, Wolves, John Carpenter, Winter, Robert Forster, Raquel Welch, Pam Grier, Answer TracksI probably should be doing about 50 other things at this very moment, but I saw this great top-50 list today and was inspired it to immediately answer it. I made my list very, very quickly, so in plenty of ways it’s the most honest form a list like this could ever arrive in. While the numbering is fairly [...]
November’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters.
Posted: November 22, 2011 in Apes, Awfulness, Comedy, Movie Posters, Superheroes, The FutureYou know the routine. I show the movie posters, I drop some sarcasm, you chuckle and guffaw and forward the site to every last one of your friends, everybody goes home happy. Here’s how it went in the recent past… April’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. June’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. July’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #4: THE UNHOLY THREE (1925).
Posted: October 4, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Apes, Crime, Cult Classics, Little People, Movies (U)Today I’m spotlighting a movie all the way from 1925. Don’t let that scare you off. Give me two paragraphs and trust me, you’ll want to stay. The Unholy Three was a massive hit in its time, and critically well-received, which makes it one of the most successful movies to be barely remembered by history. [...]
Stone Classics: PLANET OF THE APES (1968).
Posted: July 12, 2011 in Apes, Classics, Movies (P), Sci-FiFilm Forum has an all-new 35mm print of Planet Of The Apes which is screening all this week. It’s a classic and the important kind of classic, and though I don’t return to it all that often, you can be sure I have some thoughts about it. Here are some: What do you say [...]
TRAILER: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Posted: June 6, 2011 in Apes, Movies (R), Pretty Girls, Trailers.Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Technically, that title actually makes some sense, even though it sure looks like it doesn’t. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Huh. Well, I guess a simple ”Rise Of The Apes“ would say the same damn thing. Obviously the point is to restart the franchise with a [...]
