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Nine Gems from Cannon Films

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Marvelous Videos presents nine gems from Cannon Films… If you grew up in the 80s, chances are you became (intentionally or unintentionally) familiar with a production company called The Cannon Group, Inc. They were responsible for an influx of action pictures throughout the 1980s that featured to some of the most iconic action heroes we […]

New World is hopeful with upcoming changes

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New World is taking it slow on its upcoming changes. Devs will take some time testing them out before patching them in game It has been rough for New World for the past few months ever since its release. The popular MMORPG has been riddled with problems and issues that have taken their toll on […]

FFXIV’s Starlight Celebration Lifts Up Players’ Spirits

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Starlight Celebration comes right on time to lift up players’ spirits due to Endwalker server congestion. Here are some tidbits about the annual Christmas event… It’s the holiday season, and hundreds of games have released varying events or festivals with a winter or Christmas theme. From Valorant to Animal Crossing, every game has its own […]

The Lord of the Rings at 20: How the franchise reinvented the fantasy epic

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Chris Connor looks back at The Lord of the Rings as The Fellowship of the Ring celebrates its 20th anniversary… Epics have traditionally been big business for Hollywood, with biblical and historical epics like Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur enjoying huge popularity throughout the 1950s and 1960s. However, the fantasy epic had been […]

Blu-ray Review – My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988)

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My Stepmother Is An Alien, 1988. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Seth Green, Alyson Hannigan, Harry Shearer, and Juliette Lewis. SYNOPSIS: A scientist sends a signal out into space and gets a visit from an alien looking to learn more about Earth, and they fall in love. In another […]

Blu-ray Review – The Last Matinee (2020)

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The Last Matinee, 2020. Directed by Maximiliano Contenti. Starring Luciana Grasso, Franco Duran, Daiana Carigi, Julieta Spinelli, Ricardo Islas. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious killer stalks the patrons of a cinema who are watching a horror movie. The ‘giallo homage’ has become a sub-genre all of its own in recent years, with filmmakers taking their inspiration from […]

Movie Review – Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

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Texas Chainsaw 3D, 2013. Directed by John Luessenhop. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine Neverson, and Tania Raymonde. SYNOPSIS: Continuing directly from the original film, the local town folk deal with the Sawyer family, only for some unexpected truths to come back and haunt them years later. Completely ignoring the various sequels to the 1974 […]

Movie Review – Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)

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Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins, 2021. Directed by Nick Nevern. Starring Vinnie Jones, Craig Fairbrass, Terry Stone, Keith Allen, Billy Murray, Michelle Collins, Roland Manookian and P.H.Moriarty. SYNOPSIS: Here’s how it all began for Tony Tucker, Craig Rolfe and Pat Tate in the prequel that you’ve all been clamouring for. Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins […]

Blu-ray Review – Free Hand For a Tough Cop (1976)

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Free Hand For a Tough Cop, 1976. Directed by Umberto Lenzi. Starring Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Claudio Cassinelli, Nicoletta Machiavelli, and Dana Ghia. SYNOPSIS: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family. When it comes to knock-offs […]