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10. Videodrome (1983) Videodromeis disturbing and weird to the point where you almost don’t want to admit how good it is. I’m not much of a body-horror fan, but when something is good, you have to give it due credit. This movie is incredibly unique and inventive, even by today’s standards. Yeah, it has a lot of uncomfortable moment, but it earns the distasteful ground that it treads. 9. Aliens (1986) While the originalAlienwas a sci-fi/horror movie, the sequelAliensmade an interesting turn in becoming a sci-fi/action movie....

10. Green Card (1990) Andie MacDowell remains a queen of 90s cinema. She appeared in several great movies of the era, and almost all were rom-coms—likeGreen Card, which has aged like a fine wine since its initial release in 1990. It tells the story of a young woman who marries a French immigrant (without meeting him) so he will be able to stay in the US. But when their marriage ends up under investigation, the two strangers are forced to live together and learn about one another to fool the authorities....

10.The American President(1995) The American Presidentis often seen as the film that led Aaron Sorkin to doThe West Wing. But while it certainly influenced that TV series, the tones of the movie and the show couldn’t be more different. Sorkin’s film, starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening, revolves around the widowed president of the United States and what happens to his opinion polls when he starts dating a political lobbyist....

10.Crackdown 3 The originalCrackdownfirst hit the Xbox 360 way back in 2007. The game was well-received, though its sales figures were heavily boosted by the inclusion ofHalo 3multiplayer beta codes included in each copy. Three years later,Crackdown 2came out and improved on the first game in many ways, leaving many to still remember it fondly. And then in 2019, we gotCrackdown 3. This one doesn’t innovate that much on the earlier games, but that’s fine by us....

10. Battle Royale (2000) Koushun Takami’s 1999 novelBattle Royaleinspired a manga series, which then inspired this movie. Some would even say it pioneered the entire “death game” genre, including the likes ofThe Hunger Games. Battle Royalecenters on a world-weary teacher who goes off his rocker and takes an entire class of students out onto an island. Once there, he tells them that they all must fight to the death. Some of the students resist....