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The Full Trailer for ‘Life’ is Full Blown ‘Alien’

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I’m in the midst of a love-hate relationship right now.

Yesterday I went off on how how the new sci-fi horror, Life, is massive Alien ripoff. And that was just from this short Super Bowl television spot. We now have the brand new trailer in full that just adds more fuel to that fire, while also doing something I’ve grown tired of in film; what we learn is that what’s at stake is the entire planet Earth. Yup, they found an alien life form on Mars that, according to this trailer, wiped out life on the Red Planet. Now, it’s up to Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds  and the rest of the crew to kill it before it crash lands on Earth. Alien was much more subtle, feeling more like Ripley against the boogeyman, as opposed to Ripley must save the world from the boogeyman. These are the mistakes of our modern filmmakers that bleeds over from all of these superhero movies. What’s at stake is their lives, not the planet Earth. Yawn.

Yet, I love the footage, as well as the casting of Gyllenhaal and Reynolds. I’m just going to have to reserve judgment for March 24th.

Here’s the brand new trailer to go along with a ton of new images and the fresh one-sheet.

We were better off alone…

Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) in Columbia Pictures’ LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) in Columbia Pictures’ LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) in Columbia Pictures’ LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures’ LIFE.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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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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