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: 2.5★
There's a specific kind of feeling you get when a film pulls you back in time before the opening credits have even finished rolling. That's exactly what happened when I sat down to revisit this one. Within minutes, I was eight years old again, parked in
Northern Horror Fest
Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it
Rating: 3.0★
There are films you admire enormously and films you love, and sometimes those two things refuse to overlap. Phil Tippett's Mad God sits squarely in the first category for me, and I've been wrestling with that ever since the credits rolled. It is, without any doubt
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
2010s
There's a special kind of disappointment that comes from watching a film that doesn't just fail, but fails while desperately trying to be five things at once. The Mummy (2017) is that film. A confused, joyless, soulless mess that takes one of cinema's most
Rating: 3.0★
I have to be honest: I walked into Noah Kahan: Out of Body as something of a neutral party. I've got a genuine soft spot for American folk music, and I don't mind Noah Kahan's work at all. Some of his tracks are genuinely
1990s
Some films exist purely to make you grin like an idiot, and The Mummy is one of them. There's a moment early on where Brendan Fraser's Rick O'Connell, outnumbered, outgunned, and about to be executed in the middle of the desert, still manages to
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular kind of comfort that very few films can offer, and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is one of them. Sitting down to revisit it, you're not bracing yourself for plot twists or emotional gut-punches. You're settling in. You&
Rating: 3.5★
There are few pressure tests for a film quite like renting out a cinema for twenty-nine hyperactive eight-year-olds and hoping for the best. That's exactly what I did to celebrate my son's birthday, and I can tell you now: Toy Story 5 passed
Northern Horror Fest
Brianna Lee is one of those filmmakers who simply does the lot. On her debut feature The Troll she wrote, directed, produced, edited and took the lead role, and it earned her a nomination for Best Performance in a Debut Feature when it world premiered at the 34th Raindance Film
Northern Horror Fest
Ryan Callaway has spent well over a decade quietly building one of the more prolific independent horror operations in America. Through his own company, Shady Dawn Pictures, he writes, directs and produces films that get made outside the studio system entirely and have found their way into more than 150
Rating: 3.5★
Let's be honest: when those first official images of Sonic surfaced online, it was one of the most alarming things I'd seen in a cinema preview in years. Those teeth. Those unsettling human-ish eyes. The strange, elongated limbs. I remember thinking there was absolutely no
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