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Brand New Documentary ‘Gremlins: A Puppet Story’ Streaming Now Through the Hollywood Theatre

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While you wait for animated prequel series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai,” we’ve just learned that a brand new Gremlins documentary has been put up for online streaming!

Titled Gremlins: A Puppet Story, the doc provides a behind-the-scenes journey (made especially for the Hollywood Theatre) with special effects legend Chris Walas on the making of Joe Dante’s Gremlins. “Narrated by Walas, and featuring incredibly rare photos and video from his personal archive, witness the creation of this pioneering, effects-laden classic.”

“Chris Walas won the Academy Award for ‘Best Makeup’ for his incredible work in Cronenberg’s The Fly in 1987. He’s also known for creating the creatures in Gremlins, and for being involved with the effects in the climactic scene of Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Gremlins: A Puppet Story will be streaming through July 23rd, and you’ll find it exclusively over on the Hollywood Theatre’s website. Streaming tickets can be purchased for $10.

Thanks to our friend Aaron Crawford from Cavity Colors for the heads up.

Aaron tweeted over the weekend, “This is an absolute MUST WATCH for fans of the film, and the art of Chris Walas. It’s mind blowing and amazing. Highly recommend it.”

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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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