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.
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Here's the thing about the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot: it had exactly one job. One. Deliver bone-crunching, over-the-top, fatality-drenched carnage with a bit of heart holding it together. That's it. That's the whole brief. And somehow, despite every advantage a
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There are films you watch and films you remember, and The Jungle Book is firmly in the second camp. I couldn't tell you the first time I saw it, because it feels like it was always just there, woven into the furniture of early memory alongside the smell
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There's a moment in Tim Burton's Dumbo remake when you realise nothing is actually going to happen. Not emotionally, anyway. The big ears flap, the little elephant takes flight, the crowd gasps, and I felt absolutely nothing. That's not supposed to be possible with
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Let me say something that might ruffle a few feathers: the original Night of the Living Dead is a landmark. It's brilliant, politically charged, genuinely groundbreaking. George Romero made something that changed horror forever. But if we're being honest with each other, and I think we
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There's a quiet melancholy beneath the surface of Lilo & Stitch that I wasn't quite expecting when I first sat down with it, and it's that melancholy that lingers long after the credits roll. Not the big, showy emotional beats that Disney tends to
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There's a moment watching The Crazies when you think: right, this is actually pretty decent. It moves well, it's got genuine menace, and it taps into something properly unsettling about ordinary people turning feral and the institutions meant to protect you becoming the threat. And then
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There's a really compelling film buried somewhere inside The Hunt, and the frustrating thing is you can see it trying to claw its way out. The premise is genuinely sharp: a group of strangers wake up in a field and quickly realise they're being hunted for
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There's a moment watching King Kong when you have to stop and remind yourself: they made this in 1933. No computers. No CGI. No motion capture. Just ingenuity, patience, and craftsmanship that, frankly, puts plenty of modern blockbusters to shame in terms of sheer ambition. I came away
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There's a moment in RoboCop where a corporate suit smugly presents a walking tank of a robot to a boardroom full of executives, it malfunctions spectacularly, and a man gets shot dead in front of everyone. The suits are horrified. Not because someone died. Because of the PR
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That opening shot. The sun cracking over the horizon, the savannah waking up, every creature on earth making its way to Pride Rock while Hans Zimmer and Lebo M fill the speakers with something that feels genuinely ancient. I've seen The Lion King more times than I can
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There are films you remember seeing as a kid where you can still feel the exact sensation of watching them for the first time. Aladdin is one of those. The magic carpet soaring over the clouds, the Cave of Wonders roaring to life, and then Robin Williams opening his mouth
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There's a moment in The Thing where you realise you've been holding your breath. Not because something jumped out at you, not because of a sudden crash on the soundtrack, but because John Carpenter has spent the last hour quietly, patiently winding the tension so tight
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