Casey Chong presents seven movies about influencer culture that are worth adding to your watchlist… Influencer culture, encompassing social media influencers and vloggers, is frequently being portrayed in a bad light. This is particularly true with the curated, too-good-to-be-true content posted on social media for followers and anyone who comes across the post while scrolling. […]
Movie Review – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, 2025. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead. At […]
10 Forgotten Erotic Thrillers Worth Revisiting
Casey Chong presents a selection of forgotten erotic thrillers for your watch list… Erotic thrillers may have significantly dwindled in today’s era, even though this subgenre does make a splash – for better or worse – occasionally with movies like the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Netflix’s Fair Play and the recently Nicole Kidman starrer […]
Street Fighter movie trailer and posters introduce us to iconic videogame characters
Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have pushed start on the latest attempt to bring iconic videogame Street Fighter to the big-screen by dropping a sneak peek first look teaser trailer and character posters. Directed by Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip), your recognisable pixelated punchbags are brought to life by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji […]
Movie Review – The President’s Cake (2025)
The President’s Cake, 2025. Written and Directed by Hasan Hadi. Starring Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem Waheed, Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj, Muthanna Malaghi, Ahmad Qasem Saywan, Thaer Salem, Fatima Abouharoon, Mohammed Rheimeh, Rokia Alwadi, Abdelkarim Jasim, Maytham Mreidi, and Nadia Rashak. SYNOPSIS: In 1990s Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake. She […]
Movie Review – Goodbye June (2025)
Goodbye June, 2025. Directed by Kate Winslet. Starring Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren, Stephen Merchant, Fisayo Akinade, Jeremy Swift, and Raza Jaffrey. SYNOPSIS: Four siblings’ lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season. Making her directorial debut, Kate Winslet’s Goodbye […]
Movie Review – Ella McCay (2025)
Ella McCay, 2025. Written and Directed by James L. Brooks. Starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Spike Fearn, Ayo Edebiri, Albert Brooks, Rebecca Hall, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Sheetal Sheth, Erica McDermott, Anthony Gaita, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joel Brooks, Troy Garity, Michael Balzano III, Kellen Raffaelo, Pamela Figueiredo, Tierre Diaz, and […]
Daisy Ridley on Star Wars: New Jedi Order and cancelled The Hunt for Ben Solo
With the Star Wars franchise in a dry spell on the big screen, at least until next summer’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, there’s been rumblings lately of potential projects that have yet to come to screen. Sequel Trilogy star Daisy Ridley recently spoke about her film Star Wars: New Jedi Order following Rey Skywalker and the news of the cancelled […]
More LEGO Star Wars Winter 2026 sets officially revealed
Following an early look at LEGO’s mid-scale AT-AT, Venator-Class Attack Cruiser, and buildable BB-8 model, The LEGO Group has now unveiled five more sets from its Star Wars Winter 2026 line-up with a Siege of Mandalore battle pack from The Clone Wars, The Mandalorian & Grogu’s Speeder Bike, Grogu’s Homestead, and Cobb Vanth’s Speeder from […]
Movie Review – Fackham Hall (2025)
Fackham Hall, 2025. Directed by Jim O’Hanlon. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Emma Laird, Damian Lewis, Katherine Waterston, Lizzie Hopley, Tom Felton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lee Boardman, Ben Radcliffe, Lily Knight, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Rawes, Adam Woodward, Nathan Hall, Alex Butler, Magdalena Sverlander, Tim McMullan, Laurie Ogden, Paula Wharton, Gemma Wardle, and Erin Austen. SYNOPSIS: A new porter […]
