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Project Nim

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Project Nim
Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard

“It was the seventies,” a woman says, laughing, in this much-buzzed Sundance documentary. Yes, the 1970s, when rearing a chimpanzee and teaching it sign language on Manhattan’s Upper West Side passed almost without comment. Even though huge advancements in interspecies communication were made in the time spent with adorable “Nim Chimpsky,” not everything went smoothly. Cameras were there to capture it all, and assembling the footage is Oscar-winning British director James Marsh, the man behind the ghostly 2008 Twin Towers tightrope doc Man on Wire. He has an unerring talent for choosing poetic subjects. This is the smart, real-life pick of the summer.

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Alien Anthology

Alien Anthology
Alien Anthology
The first two movies in this series are two of the best science-fiction flicks of all time. This package also includes the other two films, of course, in addition to all the previous material that was released on video and laser disc and in the Legacy and Quadrilogy editions. There are two versions of each film, none new—all four theatrical releases, plus the 2003 director’s cut of Alien with Ridley Scott’s intro, the 1991 special edition of Aliens with James Cameron’s introduction, and the 2003 special editions of Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. What is new? (1) Four hours of previously unreleased bonuses, including Sigourney Weaver’s screen tests, deleted scenes, movie stills, and the original cut of Wreck age and Rage: The Making of Alien 3. (2) Video “enhancement pods” with dailies, behind-the-scenes footage, and interview outtakes. (3) MU-TH-UR Mode, a “fully interactive companion” that provides an index of all available content, including the 60-plus hours of extras.

The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days
The Next Three Days
Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks

Let’s just pretend Robin Hood never happened. Crowe is, no doubt, doing the same. He needs to find a way back to the box-office appeal he brandished circa The Insider and Gladiator; maybe it’s with this romantic thriller, helmed by Crash’s Oscar-winning Paul Haggis. Crowe’s character is a professor who has to break his wrongly arrested wife (Banks) out of custody—risking both their lives, along with that of their young son, in the process. On board to keep this premise from going slack is a killer supporting cast, which includes Brian Dennehy, Liam Neeson, and House’s stunning Olivia Wilde.

Red

Red

Red
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich

Willis as a retired CIA agent who gets yanked back into the game? Okay, we buy that. But drop in Freeman and Malkovich as crusty partners, and you’ve got the Space Cowboys of spy flicks. But wait, is that the grand dame of England, Mirren, toting a machine gun? Maybe Red has a shot after all, in a hey-look-at-the-old-peopledoing-outrageous-things kind of way. (Where’s Betty White as the supervillian?) It might be a summer movie that missed its mark by a month, but the thought of Weeds’ Mary-Louise Parker as a love interest is appealing in any season.

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