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 […]
6 Private Investigator Movies That Deserve More Love
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
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
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 […]
Crazy 80s Cult Movies You Might Have Missed
Casey Chong with a selection of crazy cult movies from the 1980s that need adding to your watch list… One of the best things about watching movies is how diverse the various genres have spread from the mainstream, audience-friendly fares to indie works and finally, the types that defy genre conventions or outright weird. They […]
Three Days of the Condor at 50: The Story Behind the Classic Conspiracy Thriller
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 […]
The Essential Robert Redford Movies
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 […]
The Essential Indiana Jones Rip Off Movies of the 1980s
Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones rip-off movies from the 1980s… In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Jaws, […]
Creepy Cabin Horror Movies You May Have Missed
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 […]
The Essential Action Movies From Cannon Films
Casey Chong on the essential action movies from Cannon Films… If you lived through the 80s and 90s era, you’d likely have been familiar with Cannon Films, an indie production company synonymous with low-budget, B-movies that focused on certain niches such as action, martial arts and sci-fi & fantasy. Cannon initially got off to a […]
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