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: 3.5★
There's a moment in Wasp where you realise you're holding your breath, not because anything explosive is happening on screen, but because the tension of everyday poverty is so authentically rendered that you're bracing for something terrible to arrive at any second. Andrea Arnold&
Rating: 3.5★
There's a genuine audacity to what Moustapha Akkad attempts here, and for the most part, he pulls it off. The Message sets itself one of the most extraordinary creative challenges in the history of historical epic filmmaking: tell the story of the birth of Islam, with the Prophet
Rating: 3.5★
Everyone was talking about Saltburn when it landed, and honestly, I get it. Emerald Fennell's psychological thriller is the kind of film that burrows under your skin and refuses to let go, even when, maybe especially when, it's doing things you find completely daft. I came
Raindance Film Festival
There is a particular kind of documentary that sets out to change how you see a group of people, and Fabric belongs to it. Directed by Anabelle Marshall, this short documentary goes inside Espero Atelier, a Paris social enterprise that trains refugees in the exacting craft of haute couture tailoring
Rating: 3.0★
There's a photograph at the heart of Jonah, and everything falls apart because of it. One man, one camera, one enormous fish leaping in the background, and suddenly a quiet Tanzanian fishing village is never the same again. It sounds almost whimsical, and for a brief moment it
Rating: 4.5★
Some films you watch for yourself. Some films you watch with your kids, and you end up rediscovering something you didn't even know you'd lost. Sitting down with the little ones to watch James Frawley's The Muppet Movie, I wasn't expecting to
Rating: 3.0★
I'll be honest with you: I came to Hellraiser embarrassingly late. I've sat through the undisputed heavyweights over the years, the Nightmare on Elm Street films, Halloween, the Friday the 13th series, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre pictures, all of them. And yet somehow, Clive Barker'
Rating: 3.0★
Batman Forever is a weird one. There's no getting around it. Joel Schumacher's 1995 outing represents such a massive tonal departure from the brooding, gothic pictures Tim Burton gave us that you almost feel like you've wandered into a completely different franchise. Gone is
Rating: 3.5★
"Everything is sacrifice, you just have to make sure you don't sacrifice the wrong thing." That line lands early in My Father's Shadow and it stays with you for the rest of the film's running time, sitting quietly at the back of
Rating: 4.0★
I went into I, Tonya fully expecting to be mildly entertained by a straightforward ice-skating biopic and mildly bored by the bits in between. I was only a toddler when the Nancy Kerrigan incident was dominating global headlines, so my knowledge going in amounted to little more than a
Rating: 4.0★
There's a scene early in Capernaum that sets the tone for everything that follows: a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy, sitting in a courtroom, announcing that he is suing his own parents for bringing him into the world. It's one of the most staggering opening
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment in Ali and Nino where the sweeping score swells, the landscape opens up, and you think: yes, this is exactly what historical epic romance is supposed to feel like. Then the scene ends, and you remember that the two people at the centre of it
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