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10 Essential Ninja Movies That You Must Watch

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Marvelous Videos presents ninja flicks for the ages… What is it about ninjas that make them so enticing to western audiences? To be honest, we actually don’t have to speculate as to the answer- they’re freakin awesome. Lone warriors disguised among the plebs, ready to strike at a moment’s notice and disappear as quickly all […]

The Man Who Changed Cinema: Great Creature Features from Ray Harryhausen

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Marvelous Videos on Ray Harryhausen and his creature movies… A lot of times in movies there are many important crew members who go unrecognized. I mean, let’s be honest with ourselves- it’s much easier to pin all the successes (and failures) of a flick on the big names like the director, producer(s), editor, cinematographer, etc… […]

Cinema’s Groundbreakers – George Lucas’ Star Wars

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In the latest in our ground breakers series, Tom Jolliffe looks back at where an entire franchise began in 1977’s Star Wars… It may seem odd to think, but at one time, Star Wars was something of a financial gamble. There was as much mirth at the prospect of a space saga, B picture as […]

The Defining Works of Takeshi Kitano

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career defining works of legendary Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano… Fans of Japanese cinema will no doubt be familiar with the iconic Takeshi name. Sometimes billed by nickname as Beat Takeshi, or more retrospectively now as Takeshi Kitano, this actor and comedian (most notable during the late 80’s for the oddball […]

Extreme Gun-Fu Action Movie Gems You Cannot Miss!

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Marvelous Videos with a selection of essential gun-fu movies… Gun-fu. It’s a strange word, a western portmanteau that seeks to combine firearms with Eastern martial arts. But how can this be? How can you realistically have people shoot guns at close range without it seeming gimmicky or outright silly? Well, the great thing about movies […]

WWE Clash of Champions 2020 Predictions

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Liam Hoofe provides his predictions for WWE Clash of Champions… The WWE returns to PPV this Sunday night with Clash of Champions. All of the company’s main roster belts will be defended on what looks to be a fairly entertaining match card. The company has delivered some fairly decent PPVs in recent months in spite […]

Urban Legend: The Last Slasher of Its Kind

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22 years on from its release on this day in 1998, EJ Moreno revisits Urban Legend… I remember being a teenager and hearing the phrase “they don’t make them like that anymore.” It was usually in regards to some form of entertainment, like a music genre or certain movies. My youth left me ignorant to […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in September 1980

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Andrew Newton looks back to 1980 and the videos games we were playing that September… With the summer of 1980 coming to a close, children returning to school and nights drawing in it was up to people to once again return to indoor pursuits, namely videogaming.  Those who had preferred the sunshine to the dimly-lit […]

The Best & Worst Horror Movie Remakes | Flickering Myth TV

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We delve into the world of horror movie remakes in the latest episode of FMTV… In this week’s episode of Flickering Myth TV, EJ is joined by Allen Christian and Gerald James of the Flickering Myth Podcast to discuss the very best and very worst in horror movie remakes. From Halloween to Psycho, there’s much […]