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 Cop on the Edge
Tom Jolliffe on the well-worn but effective cop on the edge trope… Cinema can often be pretty simple. Good guys are often morally upstanding. Bad guys often irredeemably corrupt. Your good guy might be a cop, your bad guy a crook. The hero might have a foible or two, but is generally psychologically on an […]
10 Golden Age Hollywood Stars and Their Modern Successors
Murray Ferguson looks a ten Golden Age Hollywood stars and their modern successors… Awards season is approaching, meaning endless discussions of which performances deserve to be rewarded and who has been snubbed. This means it is as good a time as any to celebrate some of the best talent to emerge from Hollywood. Different filmmaking […]
The Most Powerful Monsters in the Godzilla Universe
Marvelous Videos delves into the most powerful kaiju of the Godzilla universe… Godzilla kickstarted the kaiju genre with his successful debut in 1954, ensuring giant monsters would become a mainstay of pop culture for decades and decades to come. That doesn’t mean it’s fall fun and games though. The great giant radioactive monster has had to […]
From Duel to Joy Ride: The DNA of John Hyams’ Alone
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at John Hyams’ latest film Alone, and delves into its DNA… In 2012, director John Hyams delivered a hell of a surprise package. It was his second film in a franchise that he took into wild (and occasionally divisive) avenues. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning was near visionary in scraping […]
Star Wars Rebels: An Overlooked But Essential Part of the Franchise
Chris Connor on Star Wars Rebels… Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012 opened up a wealth of opportunities to expand the Star Wars universe. We have since seen five movies and the live action TV series The Mandalorian, the majority of which have pleased fans with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Mandalorian […]
Mind-Bending Cerebral Sci-Fi Movies That You Must Watch
Marvelous Videos presents cerebral science fiction to scramble your brain…. In his review of Ex_Machina, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz remarked that real sci-fi was about ideas, and we can’t help but mostly agree. Science fiction, at its core, is about challenging our perceptions of the real world- expanding our horizons if you will. Some auteurs […]
Essential Time Travel Movies Part II
Tom Jolliffe offers up a second round of essential time travel movies… Having already established that cinema has a longstanding fascination with time travel with my previous ten essentials, it’s high time to add another ten to the mix. As a starting point for so many films it goes without saying that there have been […]
Exclusive Interview – Cinematographer Nick Junkersfeld discusses his work on the Wrong Turn reboot
Moviegoers got a preview of the new Wrong Turn installment on January 26th, for a one night only Fathom Events theatrical screening. The film, written by the original 2003 Wrong Turn screenwriter Alan B. McElroy and directed by Mike P. Nelson, is now being widely released on VOD, Digital, Blu-ray and DVD February 23rd. The […]
The Biggest Takeaways from Marvel’s WandaVision Episode 7
Hasitha Fernando on the biggest takeaways from episode seven of Marvel’s WandaVision… Marvel just keeps ramping up the ante with each new episode of WandaVision and this week ain’t no different. Now that we’ve moved through the decades and reached the age of modern-day sitcoms like The Office and Modern Family, one might think that […]