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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Easter Eggs Get the Spotlight in Two Videos
As promised by director Jason Reitman, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is loaded with Easter Eggs, which can be more easily spotted now that the film is available for Digital HD viewing.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which is legging its way to $200 million at the worldwide box office, will next be coming to 4K and Blu-ray on February 1st, and two videos from the franchise’s official YouTube account this week get you ready by spotlighting several Easter Eggs.
For starters, did you notice that Egon’s death scene at the start of Afterlife is an homage to a moment from the original? Ivan Reitman’s 1973 movie Cannibal Girls even gets a shout-out on a theater marquee seen in Afterlife, a nod not only to the director of the original Ghostbusters but also to Ghostbusters 2, which also featured the film on a marquee.
A young Jason Reitman even makes a brief cameo appearance in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, part of a deleted scene that was ultimately cut out of his father’s original classic back in 1984!
One of the fun little Easter Eggs you probably didn’t notice was found right on a shirt Phoebe wears, which is decorated with symbols that should be very familiar to Ghostbusters fans…
From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman, comes the next chapter in the Ghostbusters universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind. The film is written by Jason Reitman & Gil Kenan.
Don’t forget: Ghostbusters The Ultimate Collection also releases on February 1!
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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