At the tender age of 21, Jenn Howard was already burned out and disillusioned. The day after graduating from Metairie Park Country Day School, the young singer lit out for New York to see if Project ...

In his latest documentary, Project Nim, Academy Award-winning director James Marsh traces the extraordinary journey of a chimpanzee raised as a human. The project was the brainchild of Columbia ...

Not every homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership to PETA. Still, this documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and ...

This is one of those weeks when going to the movies makes you wonder about the movie industry's future. Horrible Bosses is a great title for a not-great raunchy comedy. But let me tell you about ...

The latest film Oscar winner James Marsh ("Man on Wire") , "Project Nim," chronicles a Columbia University professor's ill-fated attempt to raise a chimp like a human baby, in an effort to teach it ...

Two great documentaries ("Project Nim" and "Knuckle") are joined by a sensationalistic but engaging costume drama ("Anonymous") in leading today's (Feb. 7) new batch of DVD titles. Here's a rundown of ...

PROJECT NIM: Nim Chimpsky is a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a New York City brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the mid-1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a ...