There’s something weirdly refreshing about a horror movie that doesn’t posture, doesn’t smuggle in a lecture, and doesn’t pretend it’s “elevated” because someone mutters words of perceived depth between splatter sequences. Director Johannes Roberts understands the assignment with almost admirable single-mindedness with Primate: deliver a gory creature feature with a breezy, old-school sensibility and enough…
Primate is an 88 minute horror movie about a chimpanzee companion who is bitten by a rabid mongoose, which inevitably infects him with rabies and, ultimately, turns him from a loving member of a family to a violent animal. The film opens up with a particularly gruesome scene, setting the tone of the movie near-immediately….
Given how she made history as the first deaf person to win an Academy Award for acting, one might think the documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore would be something of a straightforward and celebratory profile on the actress. Shoshannah Stern – who, like her subject, is also a deaf actor and director – certainly…