American cinema stretches from the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, The Cameraman among them, through to the sharp, funny indie work of films like Booksmart. It's a tradition wide enough to hold big-studio spectacle, low-budget horror, and everything in between. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 4.0★
Let's get the "female Superbad" label out of the way right now, because it's both accurate and reductive in equal measure. Yes, Bottoms absolutely belongs in that specific, highly coveted corner of chaotic, hormone-fuelled teen cinema alongside the likes of Booksmart. But the
Rating: 3.5★
There is a massive, glaring blind spot on the global map that most of us simply look right past. You know the kind: a place that flickers occasionally onto your radar in a news ticker, then vanishes again before you can even locate it. Iara Lee's 2015 documentary
Rating: 2.5★
There's a very specific, nostalgic charm to the final gasps of traditional 2D animation at Disney, right before the studio completely surrendered to the CGI takeover. Something bittersweet hangs over these late entries in the hand-drawn era, a sense that you're watching a craft at
Rating: 2.5★
I'll be honest with you: silent cinema and I have never been the best of mates. Too often I find the pacing drags, and the absence of dialogue puts up a wall between me and genuine emotional engagement. That said, there are certain names that demand your respect
Rating: 3.5★
Seventy million dollars. For sixteen minutes. Let that sink in for a moment. The Audition, Martin Scorsese's 2015 short film, was reportedly bankrolled by Macau casino groups to that frankly staggering sum, and when you first hear that figure, your brain does a little somersault. But then the
Rating: 2.5★
There's a specific, sun-drenched haze to Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, and unfortunately it mostly just obscures a deeply average film. You sit there watching the warm Puerto Rican light bounce off rum bottles and white beaches, and
Rating: 3.0★
I still maintain that the 1979 The Muppet Movie is a near-masterpiece of joy, and I'd happily extend that warmth to The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island as solid, fun detours in the same spirit. So when James Bobin's 2011 reboot landed, I
Rating: 3.5★
There's something almost rebellious about how unashamed A Boy Named Charlie Brown is of its own age. Press play and within seconds you're confronted with scratchy lines, flat colours, and character movements that creak along with a kind of charming stiffness. This is nearly sixty years
Rating: 3.5★
There's a particular image of Polynesian culture that documentaries and films have spent years carefully constructing, and I'll be honest, I've largely bought into it. Films like Kumu Hina painted a genuinely beautiful picture of a society where transgender individuals aren't merely
Rating: 3.5★
Let me be straight with you: the critics have absolutely savaged this film, and I understand why. On paper, Mortal Kombat II is a bloated, narratively incoherent action film that introduces too many characters, sidelines its most iconic ones, and wastes genuine dramatic potential on clumsy comic relief. All of
Rating: 4.0★
My dad was never one for splashing out unnecessarily, but Prince Naseem Hamed's pay-per-view fights were a different matter entirely. I can still picture it now: the two of us squeezed onto the sofa, watching this flamboyant, impossibly cocky kid from Sheffield float into the ring
Rating: 3.0★
I'll be honest: I came into this one expecting to be bored stiff. I'd already sat through Who Killed Captain Alex? and Bad Black, and neither of them did anything for me. I get why people go wild for Wakaliwood. A shoestring budget, an enormous ambition,
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