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7 Underrated Ridley Scott Movies

November 24, 2024 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at seven underrated Ridley Scott movies… Ridley Scott’s career as a director spans nearly fifty years, beginning with his journey making the 1977 historical drama The Duellists. But it wasn’t until Alien and Blade Runner established him as one of the most revered filmmakers ever seen in the history of modern cinema. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: All the Money in the World, black rain, G.I. Jane, Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Someone to Watch Over Me

Ranking Video Game Movie Sequels From Worst to Best

December 21, 2024 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong ranks video game movie sequels from worst to best… Video game movies tend to get a bad rap since filmmakers can’t seem to crack the code in giving what the fans want (remember the dismal Super Mario Bros. back in 1993?) But some of them manage to score enough profit to warrant a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Video Games Tagged With: BloodRayne 2: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, Silent Hill: Revelation, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Angry Birds Movie 2

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

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

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

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

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

6 Abduction Thrillers You May Have Missed

May 19, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong presents six kidnapping thrillers that may have flown under your radar… Thrillers about kidnapping have captured audiences’ attention for decades with plenty of notable movies to recommend here. For instance, in the 80s, the likes of Harrison Ford-starring Frantic and George Sluizer’s The Vanishing quickly come to mind, while the 90s era also […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Amber Alert, Kidnap, Suicide Kings, The Captive, The Collector, Trapped

Great Mob Movies You Might Have Missed

May 20, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with a selection of mobster movies you might have missed… Mob movies have been around almost as long as cinema, stretching way back to the ‘30s with staples like The Public Enemy and Scarface. Some of the greatest and most well-known mob movies made their way from the 1970s New Hollywood onwards with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Blood In Blood Out, Kill the Irishman, Little Odessa, Miller's Crossing, Saints and Sinners, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Funeral

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