Rating: 1.5★
Artavazd Peleshian occupies a curious position in cinema history: enormously respected within academic and avant-garde circles, yet almost entirely unknown to general audiences outside Armenia and a small cluster of devoted film scholars. Born in 1938 in Leninakan (now Gyumri), Peleshian studied at the VGIK film school in Moscow
Rating: 2.0★
By 2014, the Transformers franchise had become something of a cultural phenomenon in its own right, and not entirely for flattering reasons. The first film, which you can read about in Macca's review of Transformers (2007), arrived with genuine novelty, translating a beloved 1980s toy line and animated
Rating: 2.0★
By 2011, the Transformers franchise had already established itself as one of the defining commercial forces of late-2000s Hollywood, for better or worse. The first film, which you can read Macca's thoughts on Transformers (2007), was a reasonably fun if overlong piece of summer blockbuster fare. Its
Rating: 3.0★
Few national cinemas have as particular a backstory as Suriname's, and One People sits at the very centre of it. The film arrived in 1976, the year after Suriname formally gained independence from the Netherlands, and that timing is no accident. The country's departure from the
Rating: 2.5★
Post-apocalyptic science fiction has, over the decades, carved out a well-worn groove for itself: crumbling cityscapes, leather-clad survivors, and some vague warning about humanity's hubris. Crumbs (2015), the debut feature from Spanish director Miguel Llansó, takes that familiar premise and drops it, somewhat jarringly, into
Rating: 2.0★
Víctor Erice is the sort of filmmaker whose name gets spoken in hushed, reverential tones in certain corners of the film world, and not without good reason. The Spanish director made his feature debut with The Spirit of the Beehive in 1973, a film that became one of the defining
Rating: 2.5★
Casshern arrives with a genuinely unusual pedigree. The source material is a 1973 Tatsunoko Production anime series, Casshan: Robot Hunter, which built a modest but loyal following in Japan on the strength of its pulpy, post-apocalyptic premise and its brooding cyborg hero. The property sat largely dormant for three
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of American regional cinema that flourished in the mid-1970s, built on pickup trucks, backroads, lawmen with bad tempers, and a deeply ingrained suspicion of authority in any form. Moonrunners sits comfortably, perhaps even proudly, within that tradition. Released in 1975 through United Artists, the
Rating: 3.5★
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot oversaw one of the twentieth century's most catastrophic acts of mass murder, killing somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Cambodians through execution, forced labour, famine, and disease. What is often less discussed is the regime's
Rating: 2.0★
The legend of La Llorona, the wailing woman who drowned her own children and now wanders waterways weeping for them, is one of the most enduring pieces of folklore across Latin America. Versions of it predate the Spanish conquest, and the figure has since been absorbed into everything from nursery
Rating: 2.0★
There are certain properties that feel almost critic-proof by design, and Pokémon is probably chief among them. The franchise, born from Satoshi Tajiri's 1996 Game Boy games and the trading card craze that followed, became one of the most commercially successful media brands in history before most
Rating: 4.0★
Andy Weir's 2021 novel Project Hail Mary arrived with a fair amount of goodwill already attached to it. Weir had, after all, written The Martian, a book that had been turned into a reasonably beloved Ridley Scott film, and readers of the new novel were almost immediately asking
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