German cinema spans from the expressionist shadows of the Weimar era to the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Herzog and Wenders in the 1970s and 80s. Herzog alone covers extraordinary ground, from grand historical epics to documentaries like Lessons of Darkness, his haunting record of Kuwait's burning oil fields. See what Macca has made of German film below.
Rating: 2.5★
Ghost World arrived in 2001 at an interesting moment for American independent cinema, when a small wave of adaptations from alternative comics were making their way onto screens with varying degrees of fidelity to their source material. This one draws from Daniel Clowes's serialised comic of the same
Rating: 3.5★
By 1964, Italian genre cinema was operating in a world of its own, producing work that bore little resemblance to what Hollywood or the British studios were turning out. Blood and Black Lace sits at the centre of that moment, a film that helped crystallise the giallo as a recognisable
Rating: 2.5★
By the turn of the millennium, Martin Lawrence was about as bankable a comedy star as Hollywood had on its books. Coming off the back of the long-running sitcom Martin and a string of successful films through the late 1990s, he had carved out a particular niche: the fast-
Rating: 3.5★
Werner Herzog has spent much of his career seeking out people who have pressed themselves against the outer edges of human experience, and Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) may be the purest expression of that instinct he ever put on film. The subject is Dieter Dengler, a German-born
Rating: 2.5★
Rob Zombie arrived at The Devil's Rejects (2005) with something to prove. His debut feature, House of 1000 Corpses (2003), had been a difficult birth: shot in 2000, shelved by Universal after concerns about its content, eventually picked up by Lionsgate and released to polarised notices. It was
Rating: 3.0★
Peter Hujar's Day arrives in 2025 as one of the more unusual entries in recent American independent cinema: a seventy-six minute reconstruction of a single day in the life of a photographer, drawn from an audio recording that had been sitting in an archive for half a
Rating: 2.5★
Michael Mann has been making films about men who are very good at dangerous jobs since Thief (1981), and the preoccupations he established there, the professional codes, the neon-drenched urban landscapes, the slow accumulation of pressure before violence arrives, have followed him through everything since. Miami Vice (2006) is,
Rating: 1.5★
Paraguay's Chaco War of 1932 to 1935 was one of the bloodiest conflicts in twentieth-century South American history, a grinding territorial dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia fought over scrubland so remote and punishing that disease and thirst killed as many soldiers as combat did. It is not,
Rating: 2.0★
The Resident Evil franchise has had a complicated relationship with cinema since Paul W.S. Anderson launched the Milla Jovovich series back in 2002. That run stretched to six films, earning a certain loyal following while frustrating fans of Capcom's survival horror games in roughly equal measure. A
Rating: 3.5★
Werner Herzog has spent five decades building one of the most singular bodies of work in world cinema, and the through-line connecting nearly all of it is a preoccupation with men who burn themselves up chasing something the rest of us would have the good sense to leave alone.
Rating: 2.5★
For just over seventy minutes, a calm, unhurried voice recites the tangled affairs of Germany's post-war industrial dynasties: the bankruptcies, the frauds, the convenient deaths, the dynastic feuds. Over the top of it runs a stream of images that, as far as I could ever tell, has
Rating: 2.5★
There are films you respect without ever really feeling, and Distant Voices, Still Lives is one of them. I can see exactly why it is held in such high regard, can feel the devotion and the pain baked into every frame, and still come away from it strangely untouched. That
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