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How much is Blumhouse’s reputation as the go-to studio for quick, slightly dirty, and frequently successful genre filmmaking worth? That’s at the heart of a new legal complaint that Jason Blum’s studio has issued against both Hulu and Emmett Furla Oasis Films, the studio behind this year’s Frank Grillo action vehicle
Boss Level. Remember
Boss Level? Time loop action movie with a smattering of video game logic? Grillo keeps getting killed? Mel Gibson is in it as part of the “I’m a gritty action heavy now, so no one needs to look at the ‘Personal life’ section of my Wikipedia page anymore” portion of his career?
Film Review: ‘Boss Level’: A “No Pain, no Gain” Time-Looper Movie
Remember when the 1960’s zombies use to stagger around, real slow-like? 2000’s “28 Days” gave us 100-yard-dash zombies, and that was very scary. When an idea makes money in Hollywood, every last permutation and combination of that new genre gets mined for more ducats.
Now time-loop movies abound; it’s rapidly approaching the over-saturation point. Kicked off by 1993’s now-legendary “Groundhog Day,” we just reviewed the teen rom-com time-looper “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” and now here comes a sci-fi action thriller version already; “Boss Level,” for the demographic of boys-who-love-video-games.
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This week sees the streaming premiere of
Boss Level on Hulu, Joe Carnahan’s new action flick about a badass caught in a repeating time loop that’s reset every time he dies. If this sounds familiar, you could be caught in a time loop yourself or maybe you’ve just seen this trope before. It’s a popular one in all sorts of media, and we decided to travel the timestream and collect our favorites, over and over again.
Cause And Effect
Although a certain movie that we’ll get to in a second is widely considered to have popularized the time loop concept, this Season 5 episode of