1930s - Movies With Macca

Rating: 1.0★

Rose Hobart (1936)

In the mid-1930s, the American visual artist Joseph Cornell was making a name for himself in New York's surrealist circles, constructing elaborate shadow boxes filled with found objects and ephemera. His only foray into filmmaking, Rose Hobart (1936), applied the same found-object logic to moving image:

Rating: 3.0★

Little Caesar (1931)

Few films can claim to have genuinely shaped the DNA of an entire genre, but Little Caesar, released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures in January 1931, is one of the rare cases where that claim holds up to scrutiny. It arrived at a particular moment in American cultural

Rating: 4.0★

The Invisible Man (1933)

By the early 1930s, Universal Pictures had established itself as the home of the monster movie, and the studio was moving at quite a pace. Frankenstein had arrived in 1931, setting a template for prestige horror that mixed scientific hubris with genuine pathos, and the studio wasted little time in

Rating: 3.5★

The 39 Steps (1935)

By 1935, Alfred Hitchcock was already the most talked-about director working in British cinema, but he had not yet made the leap to Hollywood that would define the later arc of his reputation. The 39 Steps arrived at a particular sweet spot: sound pictures were a settled fact rather