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Little Big Boy: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Duncan (V)

“It was a very unpleasant experience to sit through this film in it’s entirety. In fact, I had to stop and restart several times in order to preserve my eyesight. It’s loaded to the brim with full frontal nudity, but even that does nothing to elevate the experience. “Little Big Boy” is the worst time I’ve ever had surrounded by tits.”

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Little Big Boy is a mockumentary that chronicles the rise and fall of B-Movie director Jimmy Duncan. Jimmy is an eccentric director of trashy no-budget horror films,struggling to get his latest film made. After his lead actress walks off the set following an altercation, the studio is putting pressure on Jimmy to re-cast the part, and finish production of the film, otherwise his career is over. The tension starts to build, and Jimmy allegedly lashes out in violence. This mockumentary takes place after Jimmy has been arrested for multiple counts of murder, and interviews everyone who’s ever encountered the notoriously tempered director, to try and figure out what sent him over the edge.

First, let me say that this film has a very small target audience. Unless you’ve been actively following the uber low-budget horror scene, you’re not going to find any kind of connection here. Those of you who know who actors such as Manoush, and April Monique Burril are, may find some small level of enjoyment just by seeing them get some screen time, but that’s pretty much where the redeeming qualities end. The acting is atrocious all throughout the film. I’m not being nit-picky, It was honestly a task to make it to the credits. I realize that this is a production with next to no budget, but as we’ve seen in other films with a comparable, maybe even less of a budget, that doesn’t mean you can’t have solid acting.

Another thing that makes this film a task to watch is the excessive green screen work. Even a set as simple as a bedroom is handled in this fashion. It’s rough on the eyes, and it progressively worsens throughout the film. I understand, especially with such a small budget, that it’s hard to secure elaborite sets, but a bedroom? Surely one of the cast members has some form of home, right? There’s absolutely no excuse for such a thing, and the only thing that it accomplished was giving me a massive headache.

The extent of the violence that was actually shown on screen is limited to a group of corpses, suspended from the ceiling by hooks. Even that manages to be ridiculous, as it’s actually only 1 body hanging in front of a green screen, and the rest of the bodies spliced into the scene in post production. The closest thing to an on-screen act of violence, is a “donkey punch” scene, where the fist doesn’t even remotely resemble connecting to the back of the girl’s head. Rather than creating the illusion that Jimmy is covered in blood, it looks more like he tripped and fell holding a pitcher of cherry Kool-Aid.

It was a very unpleasant experience to sit through this film in it’s entirety. In fact, I had to stop and restart several times in order to preserve my eyesight. It’s loaded to the brim with full frontal nudity, but even that does nothing to elevate the experience. Little Big Boy is the worst time I’ve ever had surrounded by tits.

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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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