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: 2.0★
I've seen just about every version of The Mummy that cinema has thrown at the world. The atmospheric eeriness of the Boris Karloff original, the brilliantly goofy, globe-trotting adventures of Brendan Fraser, and yes, even the ill-fated Tom Cruise reboot that nobody asked for and nobody
Rating: 4.0★
There are films you watch and forget by the following morning, and there are films that crawl under your skin and refuse to leave. Obsession is very much the latter. I went in completely blind, which I'd strongly urge you to do as well, because the experience is
Rating: 4.0★
I honestly don't understand what went wrong at the box office with this one. Kenji Kamiyama's animated take on Tolkien came and went in late 2024 with barely a ripple, dismissed by critics and ignored by audiences, and I cannot for the life of me work
Rating: 4.0★
There's a structural trick at the heart of Lady Bird that I couldn't stop thinking about after the credits rolled, and once you clock it, the whole film snaps into a kind of elegant, almost geometric focus. Everything comes in pairs. Two names for the protagonist,
Rating: 3.0★
There are films you enjoy, and then there are films you survive. Babygirl falls squarely into the second category, and I mean that as something close to a compliment. Halina Reijn's erotic thriller is arguably one of the most uncomfortable films I've sat through in years,
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of shame that comes with admitting your thirteen-year-old self got something badly wrong. I first watched Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham back in 2002, and my overwhelming memory of it was that it felt cheap, almost like a British
Rating: 4.0★
Walter Hill doesn't waste your time. That's the first thing you notice watching Hard Times, his 1975 debut feature, and it's a quality that separates him from most filmmakers working then or now. No fussy preamble, no overly explained backstory, no hand-holding. A
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific flavour to early 2000s blockbusters, and The Day After Tomorrow is basically the purest distillation of it. Watching Roland Emmerich's climate disaster epic now, 22 years on, is a genuinely strange experience. Not bad strange, not good strange. Just strange. Like finding
Rating: 3.5★
Before I even pressed play on Hands of Stone, I had no idea the film existed. Zero. And honestly, that says more about how criminally overlooked it is than it does about me. The ratings online are rough, the discourse around it is basically non-existent, and yet here I
Rating: 2.5★
There's something genuinely lovely about seeing a Golden Age Disney animation back on a screen, even if the film in question isn't quite the studio's finest hour. Sleeping Beauty has bags of charm, no question about it, and as a piece of animation history
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of Proof of Life that's a genuinely gripping hostage thriller. You can almost see it, lurking somewhere beneath the film we actually got. A tense, high-stakes rescue operation set against the brutal landscape of South American guerrilla territory, with a formidable cast
Rating: 2.5★
A hundred years old. Let that sink in for a moment. Robert and Frances H. Flaherty's Moana has just turned a century, and watching it now, you're genuinely staring at a piece of film history unlike almost anything else. It's widely regarded as the
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