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Hilarious Star Wars Rip-Off Movies That Actually Exist

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Marvelous Videos presents Star Wars rip-offs…. Whenever you strike gold in cinema, you are bound to get knock-offs. It’s been a trait since the black-and-white era and will continue to exist as movies get more and more widely distributed courtesy of streaming platforms and VOD options. We see this happen, in particular, with science fiction […]

Brutal R-Rated Anime From the 80s and 90s

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Marvelous Videos with some brutal R-rated anime recommendations… Japanese animation or anime has been a popular genre worldwide for some a while now, but there was a time when it wasn’t so accepted by western audiences. In the 90s and especially the 80s, studios weren’t quite sure if there was a market worth localizing these […]

The Biggest Takeaways From Marvel’s Loki (And Where They Might Lead)

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Hasitha Fernando on the biggest takeaways from Marvel’s Loki and what they might mean for the MCU going forward… Of the three MCU TV shows that have debuted on Disney+, Loki was undoubtedly the one that had the most significant impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward. Capitalizing on Tom Hiddleston’s innate charm and […]

The Suicide Squad and the Future of the DCEU

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Chris Connor on The Suicide Squad and the future of the DCEU… The DC Extended Universe’s journey has been anything but straightforward, with a critical backlash to 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad and 2017’s Justice League leaving the future of the fledgling cinematic universe uncertain. Since 2018 however there appears […]

The Top 13 Kills from the Friday the 13th Franchise

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We look at the best kills from the classic slasher series Friday the 13th… In 1980, Sean S. Cunningham released a low budget slasher movie that would become one of the cornerstones of the slasher sub genre. What stared out life as a script which one its actresses called “a piece of sh*t”, became a […]

6 Insane Details From The Suicide Squad Press Conference

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EJ Moreno with six insane details from The Suicide Squad press conference… In one of the most hilarious press conferences ever, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad press tour is unlike anything else. The cast and crew of the film came together via Zoom for a wonderful chat to promote the movie. During the press conference, […]

Extreme Cinema – We Are the Flesh

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We Are the Flesh, 2016. Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter. Starring Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gabino Rodríguez, and María Cid. SYNOPSIS: A pair of homeless siblings takes shelter in an old building where a strange hermit forces them into a world of depravity. “This is not your average party” says Mariano, one of […]

Marvelous Sci-Fi Horror Movies for Alien Lovers

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Marvelous Videos presents alien creature features galore…. Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens were truly something special. They not only took the preexisting concept of an extraterrestrial threat and made it fresh, but they also made it iconic. This was thanks, in large part, to the titular antagonist(s)- the xenomorph. Designed by H. R. Giger and played […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in July 1991

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… July 1991, can you believe it was 30 years ago eh? The 16 bit era was well and truly in in the UK, there were still fans of the old 8 bit computers (myself included) but more and more people were upgrading […]