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★
There's a moment in Frances Ha where the title character describes her ideal relationship as two people who are so in sync they don't even need to talk across a crowded room, they just look at each other and know. It's the kind of
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Booksmart where you realise this isn't just going to be another end-of-school comedy coasting on nostalgia and gross-out gags. It's sharper than that, and warmer than that, and it knows exactly what it's doing.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in "Topsy Turvy" where the animation just explodes off the screen: crowds swirling, colours colliding, the whole frame crackling with a kind of joyful, controlled chaos. It's one of the most technically dazzling sequences Disney has ever produced, and it'
2010s
Here's the honest truth about Shakedown: if you were there, inside that underground lesbian strip club scene in early-2000s Los Angeles, this film probably feels like someone cracked open a time capsule and handed it straight to you. If you weren't, you're going
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment in 1917 where a soldier sprints through a ruined town lit only by drifting flares, buildings crumbling around him, figures emerging from the dark, the whole world reduced to noise and shadow and the desperate pump of legs. It lasts just a few minutes, but
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
1950s
There's a version of Alice in Wonderland that could genuinely disturb you. Lewis Carroll's original stories are strange in a way that gets under the skin, full of logic that twists back on itself, a world that seems to operate on cruelty dressed up as nonsense,
Genre Family
★★½ — Wonder (2017)
Genre Music
Style Wars (1983)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Genre Adventure
★½ — Louisiana Story (1948)
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