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Variety Raves About ‘The Host’ Director’s Apocalyptic ‘Snowpiercer’!

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Fans of The host have been clamoring for more from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, and the anticipation comes to an end when the post-apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer begins boarding.

While The Weinstein Company has yet to give us a release date here in the States, the Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell and John Hurt starrer opens in South Korean on August 1. It follows a group of people on a train without a final destination, struggling to survive after the end of the world brings on a cataclysmic ice age.

We’ve been dying to know how the chiller turned out, especially after seeing a tease of Swinton’s mind-blowing performance in the international trailers – thankfully, Variety has the first ever review, which is insanely positive. They call the film “An enormously ambitious, visually stunning and richly satisfying futuristic epic.” They rave about the film at thew aforementioned link, only fingering the “fully CGI exterior shots” as a distraction.

Watch for release news as it comes in.

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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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