THE FILM:

With Project Nim, documentary filmmaker James Marsh follows up his popular and acclaimed 2007 best-documentary Oscar-winner, Man on Wire, with a completely different kind of story. Based on Elizabeth Hess's book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, the film recounts the luckless fate of the titular chimp, the "star" of a much-ballyhooed (and ultimately disappointing) linguistic experiment begun in the late '70s, whose existence was, for better or worse, persistently tampered with by humans from the moment he was taken from his mother's arms as a newborn at an Oklahoma chimpanzee breeding facility and loaned out for academic research. But just as he did with ...Read the entire review

is not only strongly magnetic, but also one that creates mater fromenergy and doubles in size every eleven hours. At the rate it's growing,it will get so large as to throw the Earth out of its orbit and destroy alllife on the planet. It's up the Dr. Stewart and the members of theOSI to discover some way to stop this menace.

In 10 Words or Less
Shocking cin mav rit , but not for the reasons you think

Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: The Candid Cameraconcept
Likes: Allen Funt, Playboy's Candid Camera
Dislikes: So-called realityTV
Hates: Confronting our unenlightened past

The Movie
I remember, in my younger days, sneaking a peek atthe Playboy Channel whenever I could. In those days before the invention ofalways-on pornography, the late-night thrill of Hugh Hefner's TV offerings wasa filthy holy grail, full of airbrushed, heavily made-up goddesses who wanderedaround hazy settings in the nude to soft jazz or light rock, doing excitingthings like playing with hoses or stretching. But every now and then, there wassomething special, a s...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Argentinean director Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Cold Sweat starts off with some black and white footage that explain to us the background story of a revolutionary political group that, in 1975, stole a whole lot of dynamite, and that this dynamite was never found. Cut to the present day and a guy named Roman (Facundo Espinosa) is sitting in a little red car with a pretty girl named Ali (Marina Glezer), who is using a laptop to talk to 'a blonde guy' who lives inside the house they're parked out in front of. Through their conversation we learn that Roman's philandering girlfriend, Jacquie (Camila Velasco), has been talking to this same blonde guy and that a few days ago she went to meet him, never to be heard from again. Ali's chatting up the same guy in order to get entry into the house so that they can find Jacquie and get her out of there safely.

So, Ali heads insid...Read the entire review

In 10 Words or Less
Nick Swardson + porn - laughs

Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: Kevin Nealon
Likes: Nick Swardson, silly comedies
Dislikes: Potty humor, most Happy Madison productions
Hates: Weak comedy

The Movie
Nick Swardson is a perfect comedic embodiment of the Wolverine Rule. When Wolverine made cameo appearances, served up in small doses, he was awesome. But he became more popular, made more and more appearances and eventually got his own series, and then a movie, which were less than impressive. Nick Swardson has been tremendously entertaining in his appearances on Reno 911! and has been good in smaller film roles like in Just Go With It, but his show Nick Swardson's Pretend Time has be...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Growing up is a weird thing. Some of us fight it, wanting to hold onto our youth for as long as we can, refusing to change with age and constantly struggling against the system, others embrace it and once they're out of college are content to put on a suit and tie and work for a faceless corporation. Anyone who grew up with any connection to punk rock probably falls into the earlier category, but as Andrea Blaugrund Nevins' documentary The Other F Word explains, even punks will change - particularly once kids are involved. The documentary, which focuses pretty much entirely on the west coast scene by covering bands from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, gives us a quick rundown of how rough and tumble the punk scene was in the eighties by showcasing violence at Black Flag shows and using a few news clippings to show how scared the establishment was of these ...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Suspicion (1941) is one of those Alfred Hitchcock movies that somehow works despite itself. The story, about a spinster-like woman who comes to realize that the charming cad she impulsively married might be a killer, must have seemed kinda creaky even in the '40s. Glamorous Joan Fontaine was miscast as the lead, and her fluttery performance (Oscar notwithstanding) hasn't held up too well. As the gambler who woos Fontaine to the altar, Cary Grant made a better impression. The actors' scenes together are terrific examples of old-style Hollywood Star Power, and Hitchcock's skillfully handles their increasingly tense relationship by ratcheting up the suspense - right up until the film's ridiculous ending, that is.

In other words, it's a flawed classic that might do well for an update. That must have been the thinking behind the remake of that film starring Jane Curtin (S...Read the entire review

THE PROGRAM

Most families would be content with one major success story, but for the Bront s success was a common occurrence in the household. The 1973 miniseries chronicles the lives of the Bront children from pre-adolescence to their untimely deaths. Spanning five, 50-minute episodes, "The Bront s of Haworth" takes a route to storytelling that bypasses biopic genre conventions, instead taking the radical approach of treating human beings like, brace yourself, human beings. Narrated by Elizabeth Gaskell (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), friend to the family and fellow author ("Cranford" and "North and South" to name a few), "The Bront s of Haworth" is a dense, dialogue rich drama based on Gaskell's non-fiction book "The Life of Charlotte Bront ," that sheds a bright light on character many know as literary anecdotes or paltry author bios from book jackets.

Those hoping for a light dramatiza...Read the entire review