Meeting Human and Primate Stars of Island of Lemurs: Madagascar [Video]
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Remember when the only Imax 3D movies were 45-minute documentaries you had to watch at science museum? And remember how – unlike many of today’s 3D Imax movies – they were actually shot for that format, and not to cynically add a surcharge to some superhero movie you’d pay to see anyway?
This Friday, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar takes you back to those days, with documentary visuals so dazzling in the maximum dimensions that you may have to watch a few times, to learn the biology at work beneath the in-your-face performances of Madagascar’s finest. In an attempt to prime you for the science, however, I went to talk to some of the movie’s stars: scientist Dr. Patricia Wright…and Felix the Lemur.
Video editing by Brian Gaughan.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist