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Boyz n the Hood at 30: John Singleton’s blistering debut still hits home

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George Nash revisits Boyz n the Hood on its 30th anniversary… In 1986, four boys set off to find a dead body. Along the way, they skip jovially along railroad tracks, wade through leach-infested waters and sleep blissfully under the stars. Stand By Me, director Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body, is […]

Extreme Cinema – Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible

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Irreversible, 2002. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel. Irreversible (2002) features strong language, sex, violence and sexual violence in its tale of a woman raped in a subway and whose boyfriend and ex-lover seek a bloody revenge on her attacker. When shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the graphic […]

Extreme Cinema – Gaspar Noe’s Love

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Love, 2015. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman and Klara Kristin. SYNOPSIS: Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbour into their bed. With the release […]

Extreme Cinema – Baise-moi (2000)

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Baise-moi, 2000. Directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie. Starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. Baise-moi caused a great deal of controversy on its initial release in France when its original 16 and Over rating was raised to the rare X certificate by the French government in the wake of protests from the far right pro-family […]

Superman Returns’ Not-So-Triumphant 15th Anniversary

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Ricky Church revisits Superman Returns on its 15th anniversary… Back in 1978, Superman: The Movie blew audiences away with the first big screen adventure of the Man of Steel. Starring Christopher Reeve as Superman from director Richard Donner, Superman became a huge film, set a benchmark for most superhero films and spawned three sequels. When the fourth […]

B-Movie Gems You Have to See!

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Marvelous Videos presents a selection of B-movie gems… Everyone loves B-movies. No, I didn’t say Bee Movie, I said B-movies. To those unaware, they are low-budget schlock produced by independent companies either for the direct-to-video market or for a limited release to be picked up by a potential cult following. But there are benefits to these […]

The Coolest Vehicles In Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies

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Marvelous Videos on the coolest vehicles in science fantasy and fantasy… Giving your character a sweet ride does more than provide you with a toyetic avenue- it means potentially creating another iconic piece of pop culture that fans will come to enjoy almost as much as they do the protagonist! At the very least, they […]

Underappreciated Fantasy Movies That Were Scorned by Critics

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Marvelous Videos presents fantasy movies at odds with critics… Sometimes there’s a disconnect between audiences and critics. Most of the time they’re on the same wavelength, but a few flicks every other year tend to produce opposing viewpoints. What one group finds pretentious, exhausting, or banal may be seen as smart, exciting, and enjoyable by […]

Ranking The Entire Halloween Franchise From Worst To Best

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Shaun Munro ranks the Halloween franchise from worst to best… In the vein of just about every popular, decades-old horror movie franchise, the eleven-film Halloween series is a rollercoaster ride of good, bad and very, very weird. There’s the classic original of course, the increasingly silly and inane run of sequels, the desperate attempt to reinvigorate […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in June 2001

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… Just for a few minutes let’s journey back to June in the Earth year 2001, a month when the British weather was up and down and the public had to put up with the awful storyline of Pearl Harbour at the cinema, […]