Cinema in the 2020s has been defined by disruption: streaming upended theatrical habits, the pandemic forced a rethink of what a film release even means, and audiences have increasingly embraced subtitled films like How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies alongside big animation and documentary work. Macca's reviews from the decade reflect that breadth. Browse what he's made of it below.
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★
Video game adaptations have, for the better part of three decades, carried a reputation somewhere between "ambitious misfire" and "straight-to-bargain-bin disaster." From the chaotic live-action pantomime of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film to the reliably forgettable string of Uwe Boll productions,
Rating: 3.5★
Brazil's military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985, is one of the twentieth century's more persistently under-examined periods of state repression in mainstream Western cinema. Tens of thousands of citizens were detained, tortured, or forced into exile during those two decades, yet the regime
Rating: 3.5★
June 1993 is a date that carries enormous weight in Nigerian history. The military government of Ibrahim Babangida annulled what is widely regarded as the freest election the country had ever held, a result that would have seen Moshood Abiola take the presidency. The cancellation triggered waves of civil unrest,
Rating: 2.0★
The "stranded together" romantic comedy has been a reliable staple of popular entertainment for decades, from classic screwball pictures right through to the wave of made-for-television romances that now dominate streaming schedules at the weekend. Lost in Paradise (2026) slots neatly into that tradition: a fashion
Rating: 1.0★
There is a particular corner of low-budget genre filmmaking where Thailand and the United States occasionally meet, producing co-productions that are a little difficult to categorise and often equally difficult to track down. Dead Earth, released in 2020 under the banner of Kaos Entertainment, sits firmly in that
Rating: 1.0★
Two of Us (also released under the alternate title Paradise Z, which is the version most viewers outside a handful of markets are likely to encounter) is a 2020 post-apocalyptic thriller clocking in at a brisk eighty minutes. On paper, it sits within a well-worn genre tradition: two
Rating: 2.5★
Madagascar in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a place caught between two worlds. France had formally granted the island independence in 1960, yet its military presence lingered, and the communities clustered around those air bases existed in a curious bubble, half-French and half-adrift, insulated from both
Rating: 3.0★
There is a version of the DC Extended Universe that feels perpetually at war with itself, and then there is The Suicide Squad. Released in August 2021, James Gunn's film arrived carrying an unusual amount of baggage: it was simultaneously a soft reboot of David Ayer's
Rating: 2.0★
The Mummy is one of those properties that refuses to stay buried. From the Universal Monsters era of the 1930s through to the sun-baked, adventure-serial fun of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the franchise has proved remarkably elastic, bending itself to suit whatever the prevailing mood in
Rating: 4.0★
There is a specific kind of dread that the best horror thrillers manage to conjure, not the kind built from a sudden bang on the soundtrack or a face appearing in a mirror, but a slow, creeping certainty that something has gone very wrong and nobody is going to be
Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with watching a film get quietly buried at the box office, especially when that film carries the weight of one of the most beloved fictional worlds ever committed to paper. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim arrived
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