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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 […]

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 […]