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‘My Pet Dinosaur’ Trailer Discovers a Monster and So Much ’80s Nostalgia
Well this should hold us off until “Stranger Things” comes back.
Nostalgia is all the rage in the entertainment industry right now, particularly 1980s nostalgia. Those who grew up in the ’80s are now at an age where they’re fondly looking back on all the awesome movies, shows, and toys we had back then, and countless new movies have come along and attempted to tap into those feels. My Pet Dinosaur, well, it’s doing the trick for me so far.
Directed by the Emmy-nominated Matt Drummond (Dinosaur Island), this year’s My Pet Dinosaur just got its first trailer courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, and it damn sure evokes the feeling of an ’80s Amblin film. It’s got kids riding bicycles, evil government agents, and of course, a creature not of this world that those kids are trying to protect from those government agents, suggesting that Drummond is a big fan of E.T. and films of that sort. Really, who isn’t?
My Pet Dinosaur is set in a town where a military experiment gone wrong results in some unexpected consequences…
Against that backdrop, a young boy discovers and befriends a dinosaur, even as a military leader seeks to kill it.
Jordan Dulieu, Annabel Wolfe, Christopher Gabardi and Tiriel Mora star.
The film will premiere at next month’s European Film Market.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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