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Action-Packed Kung Fu Horror Movies You Need to Watch

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Marvelous Videos recommends a selection of kung fu horror movies… Kung fu is one of the most popular martial arts to emerge from Asia – it’s popularity so big, that an entire genre of films have been, and continue to be, influenced by it. We have all seen the many offshoots of the wuxia category, […]

When Jim Carrey Was a Revelation

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Tom Jolliffe looks back the emergence of Jim Carrey, who ruled comedy from the mid-late 90’s… It was 1993/94. I was at the cinema to see a film with a friend. For the life of me, I cannot remember what film it was. It was something comedic, but by the time we came out of […]

The Lost Crusade: The Truth About Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven’s Abandoned Epic

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Marvelous Videos explores the story behind the abandoned historical action epic Crusade… We have all heard or advocated for something that has ultimately never gotten produced. Zack Snyder’s Justice League aside, the reality is such cases of fan advocacy leading to actual development of a long-awaited project are few and far between. No matter how […]

Mark Hamill and Eric Roberts Hitch a Ride: A VHS-Era Double Bill

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]

Muscle and the Best Roles of Craig Fairbrass

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Most film fans know British actor Craig Fairbrass for a wide range of commanding roles, playing both violent anti-heroes and merciless villains in a successful career on the big and small screen. Not forgetting his memorable TV parts in the likes of Prime Suspect, Duck Patrol and Eastenders, we’ll focus on his film work here. […]

How Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler came to write a graphic novel

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Flickering Myth spoke with writer, director, and novelist S. Craig Zahler about the release of his first graphic novel. Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus hits shelves in late February/early March and is available for pre-order now… Over the course of his career, S. Craig Zahler has been many things: an author, a musician, […]

Underrated Action Horror Movies That Are Absolutely Stunning!

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Marvelous Videos recommends 10 underrated entries in the action-horror genre… It’s very hard to combine action with horror. Horror is about scaring audiences with a threat while action is about taking down said threats- how can something be terrifying if it can ultimately be gunned down? This is the line that many writers and directors […]

Marvel’s WandaVision: Who’s Orchestrating the Madness?

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Hasitha Fernando on who could be orchestrating the madness in Marvel’s WandaVision… Three episodes into Marvel’s uber ambitious television series WandaVision, we are nowhere closer to finding the truth of what’s going on in Westview. In episode three Wanda and Vision’s friendly neighbor Herb (David Peyton) nearly dropped a proverbial brick with regard to the […]

Let’s Get Weird! Cinematic Oddities

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the weird wonders of cinema… There are pretty standard films when it comes to cinema. It could be straight horror (masked killer stalks teens) or Die Hard formula (terrorists take over something, everyman hero stops them). Sometimes a film lowdown tells you everything you need to know about what you’re about […]