British cinema spans everything from the Hammer horror boom of the 1950s and 60s to the gritty social realism that films like Fish Tank made impossible to ignore. That range, from The Curse of Frankenstein to kitchen-sink drama, is a big part of what makes it so consistently interesting. Have a browse through Macca's UK reviews below.
Rating: 2.5★
Kidnap thrillers were practically their own cottage industry around the turn of the millennium. The genre had plenty of fuel: real-world anxieties about political instability in Latin America, the post-Cold War scramble of private military contractors and crisis negotiators, and a film industry hungry for adult dramas that
Rating: 4.0★
Female genital mutilation is one of the most widely practised and least openly discussed human rights issues in the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of the procedure, with prevalence particularly high across parts of sub-
Rating: 4.0★
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupies a singular corner of world cinema, one that tends to divide audiences cleanly into the devoted and the bewildered. His work operates at a frequency all its own: unhurried, sensory, preoccupied with memory, landscape, and the thin membrane between the living and whatever comes after.
Rating: 3.0★
Horror has always had a habit of finding its most unsettling footing when it roots itself in a very specific place and time. Under the Shadow, released in 2016, does exactly that, setting its supernatural premise inside a Tehran apartment block during the brutal, grinding years of the Iran-Iraq
Rating: 3.0★
By 1994, the British romantic comedy had become something of a rare and slightly embarrassed creature. Hollywood had been churning out polished but unremarkable examples of the genre for years, and homegrown British efforts rarely found much purchase beyond domestic television. Then Richard Curtis, a writer best known at that
Rating: 4.0★
By the mid-1960s, Formula One had grown from a specialist motorsport into a genuinely global spectacle, its calendar sweeping through Monaco, Spa, Monza, and beyond, drawing enormous crowds and an air of glamorous, sometimes fatal, theatre. The 1966 season in particular marked a major technical turning point for the
Rating: 3.5★
Few films in recent memory have arrived with quite the cultural weight that Barbie carried into cinemas in the summer of 2023. Mattel's most famous product has been a fixture of popular culture since Ruth Handler introduced the doll at the New York Toy Fair in 1959, and
Rating: 2.5★
Reproduction has been a recurring preoccupation of science fiction, from the bleakest dystopias to gentler satirical fables, and it is not hard to see why. Few subjects carry more political, philosophical, and emotional weight, and few lend themselves so readily to the kind of "what if" speculation that
Rating: 2.0★
There are roughly 56,000 people living in Greenland, spread across one of the largest and most sparsely populated landmasses on Earth. Most of those people are concentrated in the coastal towns of the south and west. Go further north, further still into the frozen periphery, and the communities become
Rating: 3.5★
Montserrat is a small British Overseas Territory in the Lesser Antilles, roughly the size of a medium-sized English market town, and for most of its modern history it was best known for its lush hills, its recording studios (the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney both worked there in the
Rating: 2.0★
There are films made for the multiplex, films made for the festival circuit, and then films that seem to exist in a category entirely their own. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) falls squarely into that third group. Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known affectionately to critics and
Rating: 4.0★
American Samoa is, by most conventional football metrics, about as far from the top of the world game as it is possible to get. A small archipelago in the South Pacific with a population of around 55,000, it fields a national side that, in the early 2000s, had become
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