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Marvel’s Celestials: A Brief Introduction

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Hasitha Fernando with a brief introduction to Marvel’s Celestials… The third and final Eternals trailer was a real doozy. Jam-packed with awe inspiring imagery, world ending shenanigans and mind blowing action spectacles, the preview was nothing short of epic. But amidst the glitzy hullabaloo featured in the trailer there was one detail that keen eyed […]

Forgotten Action Heroes From the Golden Age of VHS

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Marvelous Videos presents a selection of underappreciated action heroes from the golden age of VHS… There’s a reason everyone misses the 80s- it was a golden age for cinema. No seriously, not only did you have a sci-fi revolution with the likes of Terminator, Aliens, and Back to the Future, but you also had a rebirth in the […]

Alien Invasion Movies Worthy of Their Cult Status

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Marvelous Videos with twelve cult alien invasion movies… “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” So wrote legendary sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke, and it’s a sentiment you can’t help but agree with. If humans really are the only species in the cosmos, then […]

Awesome Foreign Superhero Movies You Have To See

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Marvelous Videos presents eight foreign superhero movies worth checking out… Superheroes are best associated with western audiences: after all, the vast majority of the great comic book companies emerged in countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and France. However, though names like Marvel, DC, and 2000 AD are recognizable among the general populace, they […]

The 10 Greatest Superhero Rescues

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Ricky Church on the ten greatest superhero rescues… One of the most popular aspects to a superhero film is the threat facing them, their city and/or the world, forcing them to push harder than they ever have before to save the day. However, sometimes it is on a much smaller scale, rescuing not the world […]

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

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… August 1991 was a great month for practically everything.  The weather was great throughout the UK with temperatures barely dropping below 20° and everyone was enjoying the sunny weather.  On the film front was the brilliant Terminator 2, arguably the finest of […]

Till All Are One: The 35th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

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Ricky Church revisits The Transformers: The Movie on its 35th anniversary… In 1984, the world was taken by storm by the Transformers franchise, a series of toylines, comics and an animated series featuring transforming robots from the planet Cybertron locked in civil war. The two factions, Autobots and Decepticons, found their way to Earth and continued their […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in August 1981

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… Welcome back to the August of 1981, a month when cinemas saw the release of the brilliant American Werewolf in London and when, like this year, the weather didn’t know if it wanted to be wet or dry but mostly decided on […]

The Coolest Guns in Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies

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Marvelous Videos on the coolest firearms from sci-fi and fantasy movies… After killing General Grievous with a blaster pistol in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan tosses it, opining that it is the weapon of uncivilized people. As big fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres, we could not disagree more. Guns may […]