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Good Movie, Bad Sequels: Franchises That Turned Bad | Flickering Myth Movie Chat

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EJ and Allen discuss good movies that launched bad franchises… Sometimes a great movie could launch a great franchise. Sadly, the series mentioned in the below video all had promising starts but fizzled out into something less than stellar. On the latest Flickering Myth Movie Chat, hosts Allen Christian and EJ Moreno dive into some […]

The Most Powerful Horror Villains Of All Time

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Marvelous Videos on the most powerful horror villains… When your genre is predicated on terrorizing your protagonist, it inherently means giving your antagonist an extra oomph. They need some kind of power or ability that allows them to easily scare a group of humans without succumbing to some mishap like a bullet or fall. Horror […]

A Different Landscape: The Box Office Two Years On From Avengers: Endgame

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Avengers: Endgame, the last mega event movie. Will anything ever come close again? The simplicity of a finger snap. It was an act that brought to a close Avengers: Infinity War, where Thanos’ grand plan had come to pass. There’s no spoiler here, virtually every one with a passing interest […]

Get Over Here! The Mortal Kombat Movie Franchise

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Chris Gelderd delves into the Mortal Kombat movie franchise… American game designers, writers and friends Ed Boon and John Tobias had a dream in 1990. It had been three years since the arcade beat-‘em up Street Fighter, created by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, made its debut and helped introduce a new genre of gaming. […]

Sick and Twisted Movies For Hellraiser Fans

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Marvelous Videos presents twisted films for fans of Hellraiser… Clive Barker’s Hellraiser touched on the concept of alternate dimension beings – demonic entities from a parallel world whose have come over to terrorize us for their own sadistic pleasure. It wasn’t the first film to do this, nor the last, but it was one of the better […]

Fargo Turns 25? You Betcha!

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Coen Brothers classic Fargo which turns 25… By 1995, the Coen Brothers had become known as creators of quirky cinema, which had an acquired taste. An auspicious low budget debut with Blood Simple was followed with cult favourite, Raising Arizona. Popular gangster film, Miller’s Crossing was well received critically […]

The Best Film Scores of 2020

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Hasitha Fernando on the best film scores of 2020… The film industry took a devastating hit due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and even as of yet we are seeing the ripple effect of it over a year later. Theatres closed down indefinitely, many tentpole release dates were pushed back and production activities came to […]

For Darkseid: The Best Darkseid Stories

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Ricky Church on the best Darkseid stories… There were many things to be excited for with Zack Snyder’s Justice League, from the restoration of Snyder’s (mostly) intended vision for the DC team-up film, Ray Fisher’s full story as Cyborg and the removal of Henry Cavill’s moustache-less CGI’d face. One of the most exciting aspects, however, […]

Insanely Absurd Martial Arts Movies for B-Movie Lovers

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Marvelous Videos with martial arts movie recommendations for B-movie lovers… When it comes to depictions in film, martial arts is as much about technique as it is about style. People come to these movies to watch some variation of hand-to-hand combat, and the results must be entertaining regardless of practicality. Some filmmakers, however, have taken […]

Terrifying Horror Anthology Movies You Cannot Miss!

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Marvelous Videos presents terrifying horror anthologies… Sometimes a writer doesn’t have enough juice for a feature length project. Sometimes a filmmaker doesn’t have the budget to make a 1.5-2 hour motion picture. In both cases, a solution exists- the anthology! Over the many decades that cinema has existed, we have seen anthologies produced by studios […]