Tom Jolliffe on great films unfairly forgotten in time… Time is a cruel mistress. It’s the one constant and something no one can alter (except Marty McFly and Doc Brown). Looks go, memories fade and in cinematic terms a film can be forgotten over time. Now sometimes it’s probably a good thing. Take for example […]
Alex Proyas is developing a Dark City TV series
Dark City, released in 1998, is a cult classic sci-fi film that’s had quite the journey. From its initial release that had studio meddling to the 2008 Director’s Cut, the film has overcome a lot but still found a place with fans. Now, we’ll see the world of Dark City revisited in a brand-new television […]
Extremely Underrated Cyberpunk Movies You Have To Watch
Marvelous Videos presents cyberpunk hidden gems…. Every day it seems like we’re moving further and further into a cyberpunk world. We used to think that science fiction was purely speculative: crazy ideas dreamed up by wild writers with even wilder imaginations. But now, as corporations gain more power, income inequality grows, and advertising signs glare […]
Terrifying Cosmic Horror Films Inspired by Lovecraft
Marvelous Videos delves into the dark depths of cinema for a selection of cosmic horror films inspire by H.P. Lovecraft… Long before Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King dominated the genre, H. P. Lovecraft was pioneering a new form of horror that would shock the world: the idea that humans weren’t all that great. “The most […]
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 […]
Shades, Leather and New Messiahs in Late 90s Sci-Fi
Tom Jolliffe looks back on three key sci-fi films at the end of the last century – Blade, Dark City and The Matrix… Towards the tail end of the 20th Century, sci-fi cinema was in something of a rut. A plethora of films were being made, but with a few exceptions, everything seemed to be […]
What Happened To Alex Proyas?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career, rise and fall of Alex Proyas… Born to Greek parents in Egypt and subsequently raised in Australia, you could say that Alex Proyas has an interesting background. He started, as a lot of film directors have, in music videos (working with the likes of INXS and Sting). To many […]
