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10 Great Movies from the Once-Dominant Carolco Pictures

May 17, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with ten great films from Carolco Pictures…. Those who lived through the 80s and 90s era will likely remember the good old days when a certain independent studio dominated the Hollywood landscape. That studio in question is Carolco Pictures, which brought us a mix of iconic genre-defining hits and even underrated gems from […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Basic Instinct, Chaplin, Cliffhanger, First Blood, Jacob's Ladder, Rambo: First Blood Part II, red heat, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Universal Soldier

The Most Terrifying Movie Psychopaths of the 1990s

May 6, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong takes a trip back to the 1990s to profile ten of the decade’s most terrifying movie psychopaths… Hollywood loves psychopaths in many forms. The character can be insane, obsessive or display any dangerous personality traits that lead to the victim’s death and murder. We have seen them in various genres, covering from horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Anthony Hopkins, Cape Fear, Dennis Hopper, fear, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Madsen, Misery, Ray Liotta, Rebecca De Mornay, Reservoir Dogs, Robert De Niro, Se7en, Single White Female, Speed, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Silence of the Lambs, Unlawful Entry

7 Kick-Ass Female-Led Action Movies

April 23, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with seven female-led action movies that are worth your time… Action movies may have been traditionally dominated by men but the opposite sex have also had their fair share of notable efforts. From Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley taking down the Xenomorphs in the Alien movies to Uma Thurman’s The Bride slicing and dicing her […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, Atomic Blonde, Bridget Fonda, Charlize Theron, Cutthroat Island, Doomsday, Geena Davis, Hanna, Point of No Return, Rhona Mitra, Salt, saoirse ronan, the long kiss goodnight

Cinema of Violence: 10 Great Hong Kong Movies of the 1980s

April 21, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at ten great Hong Kong movies from the 1980s… Violence is frequently one of the recurring motifs that defines a Hong Kong movie. Practical effects along with the use of blood squibs for gunfights and stunts were heavily emphasized back in the day, explaining why the action set pieces have a heightened […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Better Tomorrow II, Coolie Killer, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Her Vengeance, Long Arm of the Law, On the Run, School on Fire, The Big Heat, The Killer, The Lunatics

10 Great Slow-Burn Horror Movies To Fill You With Dread

April 16, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with ten slow-burn horror movies that will fill you with dread… One of the most interesting things about the horror genre is its diverse A-to-Z elements from body horror to found footage, dark fantasy, slasher and supernatural. Then, there’s the slow-burn horror and as the name suggests, this subgenre focuses on the deliberate […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Don't Look Now, Hereditary, It Follows, Let The Right One In, Rosemary's Baby, Session 9, The Orphanage, The Shining, the witch

The Best Milla Jovovich Movies Beyond Resident Evil

March 14, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong on the best Milla Jovovich movies outside of Resident Evil… Milla Jovovich got her start as a fashion model who has graced the covers of Cosmopolitan, Elle and Vogue, to name a few before transitioning her career into showbiz. She made her big-screen debut in Zalman King’s Two Moon Junction but it wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: A Perfect Getaway, Milla Jovovich, No Good Deed, The Fifth Element, The Fourth Kind, The Three Musketeers, ultraviolet

Ranking Reese Witherspoon’s Romantic Comedies

February 1, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong ranks the romantic comedies of Reese Witherspoon… Much like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, Reese Witherspoon is synonymous with the rom-com genre, even though the actress has explored different genres such as biographical dramas (Walk the Line, Wild) and thrillers (Freeway, Fear). And yet, it was the rom-com genre that skyrocketed Witherspoon’s career, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Four Christmases, Home Again, How Do You Know, Just Like Heaven, Legally Blonde, Overnight Delivery, reese witherspoon, Sweet Home Alabama, This Means War, Your Place or Mine

The Return of Cameron Diaz: Her Best Movies Worth Revisiting

January 26, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at Cameron Diaz’s best films as the star makes her return to the screen… It’s nice to see the long-missed Cameron Diaz ‘Back in Action‘ after an 11-year hiatus following her retirement from acting to raise her family. Her latest movie, streaming now on Netflix [read our review here], also sees her […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Any Given Sunday, Being John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz, Charlie's Angels, In Her Shoes, Knight and Day, my best friend's wedding, Shrek, The Last Supper, The Mask, There's Something About Mary, Very Bad Things

Gripping 90s Thrillers From First-Time Directors

January 1, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong presents a selection of thrilling directorial debuts from the 1990s… Like every decade, the 1990s saw a numbers of filmmakers emerging with critically acclaimed directorial debuts, some of whom would go on to enjoy long and successful careers, while others would find themselves struggling to live up to their debut. Here, we zero […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Bound, Danny Boyle, David Koepp, Dream Lover, Gregory Hoblit, Hard Eight, Nicholas Kazan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Primal Fear, Shallow Grave, The Trigger Effect, The Wachowskis

The Best Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2024 by Casey Chong

Here’s some movie recommendations for your New Year’s viewing… With 2025 hours away approaching, it’s time to see out the year. From attending a New Year’s Eve party with your buddies to watching fireworks illuminating the night sky, these are the few things you can do. Or how about keeping things simple by getting cozy […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Bridget Jones's Diary, Ghostbusters II, Poseidon, Sleepless in Seattle, Strange Days, When Harry Met Sally, while you were sleeping

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