Action cinema, at its best, is pure kinetic storytelling: movement, stakes and consequence fused into something visceral. From the disciplined fury of Seven Samurai to the operatic scale of The Dark Knight, the genre rewards directors who treat spectacle as a means rather than an end. Browse Macca's reviews below to see which films clear that bar.
Rating: 2.5★
Somewhere between Aquaman and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I stopped enjoying my self-imposed challenge of working through the billion-dollar box office club on Letterboxd and started genuinely dreading it. What I naively imagined would be a curated tour through modern cinema's crowning achievements has, in
Rating: 3.0★
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther put me in a genuine quandary, and I've been trying to unpick exactly why ever since. Because on paper, this is everything I should want from a superhero film. Strong performances, real directorial ambition, a cultural significance that's impossible to
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of Aquaman that could have been genuinely great. Think about it: an underwater kingdom, bioluminescent cities, armies riding seahorses into battle, a king who talks to fish. Lean into that absurdity with real commitment and you might have something genuinely special on your hands. James
Rating: 2.0★
I was there for the original cartoon. I wore out the VHS of the 1987 film so many times the tracking lines practically became part of the aesthetic. So going into Travis Knight's 2026 live-action Masters of the Universe, I was hesitantly hopeful, clinging to the faint
Rating: 2.0★
What does it take to make a billion dollars at the global box office? Apparently, you just have to do the exact same thing you did three times before and turn the volume up a little louder. That's the only conclusion I can draw from Transformers: Age of
Rating: 2.0★
You know the deal going in. Nobody sits down for a Michael Bay blockbuster expecting Ingmar Bergman. But even with every expectation already calibrated to "loud, chaotic, and relentless," Transformers: Dark of the Moon still manages to exhaust you in ways you didn't quite see coming.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular pleasure in tracking a cultural phenomenon back to its source, and Moonrunners is exactly that kind of discovery. Gy Waldron's 1975 film is the undisputed progenitor of The Dukes of Hazzard, and the DNA is all over it: moonshine runs, dusty Southern backroads,
Rating: 2.0★
My kids are going through a full-on Pokémon phase at the moment, which means every spare evening involves trading cards, video games, and, apparently, me sitting down to rewatch things I probably should have left well alone. That's how I ended up revisiting Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo
Rating: 3.5★
There's a genuine audacity to what Moustapha Akkad attempts here, and for the most part, he pulls it off. The Message sets itself one of the most extraordinary creative challenges in the history of historical epic filmmaking: tell the story of the birth of Islam, with the Prophet
Rating: 2.5★
There's a Coca-Cola bottle falling out of a plane and landing in the Kalahari Desert, and somehow that single image tells you everything you need to know about what you're in for. I took a trip back to 1980 to watch Jamie Uys's
Rating: 2.0★
There's something genuinely fascinating about the idea of San Marinese cinema. San Marino, for those keeping track, is a tiny landlocked republic nestled inside Italy with a population smaller than a mid-sized English market town. Its cinematic output is, as you might expect, not exactly vast. So
Rating: 3.5★
Let's be honest: when those first official images of Sonic surfaced online, it was one of the most alarming things I'd seen in a cinema preview in years. Those teeth. Those unsettling human-ish eyes. The strange, elongated limbs. I remember thinking there was absolutely no
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