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Great Creepy Dog Horror Movies You Need To See

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Casey Chong presents a selection of creepy dog horror movies you need to see… Dogs typically earned their distinction as “man’s best friend”, especially given their loyalty, devotion and good companionship. While cute dogs regularly dominate in movies, some have also been used to great effect as a basis for the horror genre, establishing these […]

10 Essential Ninja Movies

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Get your shurikens and masks at the ready, because it’s time for ten essential ninja movies… They glide through trees and leap between buildings. They blend with the shadows. They wear really cool outfits and fight each other with swords and shuriken. Back in the golden 8 and 16-bit eras, there were innumerable and awesome […]

A History of Violence at 20: The Story Behind David Cronenberg’s Modern Masterpiece

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Hasitha Fernando on the story behind A History of Violence as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary… To say A History of Violence is one of David Cronenberg’s most accessible efforts would be correct. However, it would be remiss of me not to describe it as one of the filmmaker’s finest outputs as well. The […]

6 Private Investigator Movies That Deserve More Love

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Casey Chong with six underrated private detective movies you need to investigate… Movies about private investigators are as old as time, stretching way back to the black-and-white era where classic noirs like The Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet and The Big Sleep were among the prime examples. Further popular examples from Vertigo to Klute, L.A. […]

The Definitive Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock Movies

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Alfred Hitchcock was an undoubted master of cinema; here are his best works… When you’re a master of cinema with a resume that is stuffed with incredible movies, sometimes the hardest thing for fans to agree upon is how to rank them. It’s easy if you’re looking at Richard Kelly, for example, whose best by […]

Great 90s Thrillers From First-Time Directors

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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 […]

Three Days of the Condor at 50: The Story Behind the Classic Conspiracy Thriller

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Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Three Days of the Condor as it celebrates its 50th anniversary…. Although receiving somewhat of a muted response at the time of its release, Three Days of the Condor has since been reappraised and acknowledged as one of the best conspiracy thrillers to emerge from the 70s era […]

Naughty Video Games of Yesteryear

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Andrew Newton looks at a selection of naughty video games from back in the day… Back in February, I mentioned that we would have a peek into the seedy underbelly of videogames on the home computers of days long gone. As promised, after a lot of hard research (phnar!), as well as plenty of odd […]

The Essential Robert Redford Movies

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We take a look back at the essential movies from the late, great Robert Redford… A Hollywood legend has left us, and few have had the kind of wide-ranging and incredible career of Robert Redford. The easy smile, poster boy looks and effortless charisma made Redford an A-list star, but his creative talents and methodical […]

Creepy Cabin Horror Movies You May Have Missed

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Casey Chong takes a trek deep into the woods for a selection of creepy cabin horror movies you may have missed… The cabin-in-the-woods setting has been a recurring trope often seen in horror movies. And it’s easy to see why it prevails even today. This includes the use of limited settings to evoke fear, tension […]