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Eliza Dushku Stars In New Short From ‘Mortal Combat’ Creator Kevin Tancharoen

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Following last week’s debut of BenDavid Grabinski’s Enormous, Machinima continues to roll out its shorts original programming with Gable V. The short stars Eliza Dushku (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse) and comes from Kevin Tancharoen who gave us Mortal Kombat: Legacy and Mortal Kombat: Legacy II. Tancharoen describes it as a “sci-fi, futuristic version of the Truman Show.”

In the pilot, “Government funded scientist, Professor Gable, unearths 5 people who seem to have special gifts, and seem to be a portent for the next evolutionary step for mankind. If he can harness the source of their gifts, he could use them for the good of mankind, or for evil. We meet one unwitting participant in this nefarious program in our short as she tries to make sense of what is happening to her.

This is the first installment in a purported series so check it out below!

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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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