With the World Cup about to get underway, Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential football films… The beautiful game. It inspires fevered passion across the globe. Football (let’s not open this can of worms my US chums…it is football, the one with the round ball you might call soccer), it’s a communal experience that can […]
Underrated Movies from the Masters of Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe picks one underrated gem from ten of the best action stars of all time… Ah the misunderstood masterpiece. The underappreciated gem. Some films just take a while to get the attention they fully deserve. When it comes to the primo action stars one might argue the ranking list. However, whilst considering the best […]
Best Sword And Sorcery Anime That Are Exceptionally Good
Marvelous Video presents some fantasy anime worth a peek… The Medieval Times weren’t any more unrealistic than any other era in human history, yet for some reason an entire genre of speculative fiction has formed around simple concepts like gentry, knights, and kingdoms. They romanticize it to ridiculous heights, throw in epic lance fights, and […]
Marvelous Aquatic Horror Movies Worth Your Time
Marvelous Videos presents ten aquatic nightmares worth your time… To this day, the ocean remains a mystery. More than 80 percent of the watery depths remain unexplored, undocumented, or flat-out unmarked. Granted, a lot of that has to do with the pressure of the sea, which places a strong technological limit on exploratory crafts. But […]
The Pain of An Axed TV Show That Has More Story to Tell
Tom Jolliffe on that hollow feeling fans experience when a TV show you’re emotionally invested in is canned by the network… A good TV series. You park your derriere down for that first episode. Does it hook you in immediately? Then every subsequent episode you see, particularly on a continued drama with a long overriding […]
8 Great Peter Weller Movies That Aren’t RoboCop
Marvelous Videos presents 8 hidden gems from Peter Weller’s filmography… Corporate marketing, hyperviolence, overly-optimistic hope in the future. It wasn’t hard to see what director Paul Verhoeven and writers Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner were trying to tackle in iconic 1987 picture RoboCop. American society had been so consumed by these aspects that it begged someone […]
Fun Terminator Rip-Offs That Are Worth Watching
Marvelous Videos presents the best ripoffs of The Terminator… It’s such a simple concept – a cyborg goes back in time to alter the past. And yet, no one thought of doing it before James Cameron debuted it in 1984 (besides maybe Harlan Ellison, but that’s another story for another day!). Not only did The […]
The Most Heartbreaking Anime Movies and Series Ever Made
Marvelous Videos presents a selection of the saddest anime ever produced…. Over the course of several decades, Japanese animation has embalmed itself on the western consciousness, turning people on their heads with its commitment to hand-drawn animation, strong storytelling, and unique atmospheres. We are not saying that every anime produced is amazing- far from it. […]
Cyborg: When Jean-Claude Van Damme and Albert Pyun rode the Cannon Express
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the early Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Cyborg… April 7th, 1989. Hot off the monster success of Masters of the Universe, which went off as initially budgeted and without hitches, a sequel was released… or so what could have happened in theory. As it was, the Dolph Lundgren-headlined Masters of the […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: A-D
Beginning an A-Z series on action cinema, Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of movies from A-D… Action cinema. Explosions, fist fights, one liners and occasionally mullets. From the early westerns to the modern Marvels of blockbuster cinema, action cinema has entertained and excited audiences for decades. Sure, everyone knows Die Hard is one of […]
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