At its best, the thriller keeps you one step behind, engineering dread from information withheld rather than action shown. Hitchcock proved that with Psycho, and the tradition runs through Se7en's rain-soaked moral horror right up to the present day. See what put Macca on edge in the reviews below.
Rating: 4.0★
Few premises could feel more of the moment than this one. A man gives a quarter of a century to the same company, and then, one day, new owners decide that AI and automation can do his job for less. He is out. Just like that. No sentiment, no severance
Rating: 4.0★
For a debut feature, Talk to Me arrives with an almost indecent confidence. There is a moment early on, as a crowded room of teenagers passes around an embalmed severed hand and queues up to let something dead climb inside them for ninety seconds, where you realise the Philippou brothers
Rating: 4.0★
The most genuinely terrifying thing about Nightcrawler isn't the nocturnal car chases, or the flashbulbs popping in blood-soaked suburban living rooms. It's the creeping, stomach-dropping realisation that people like Louis Bloom actually exist. I've crossed paths with them in the corporate world,
Rating: 4.0★
There is a very specific, primal dread associated with picking up a stranger on a desolate stretch of highway, and Robert Harmon's 1986 thriller The Hitcher weaponises that exact anxiety to brilliant effect. It gets under your skin almost immediately, tapping into something ancient and instinctive, the kind
Rating: 3.0★
There's a version of watching Under the Skin where the whole thing just washes over you, strange and cold and beautiful, and you walk out feeling vaguely disturbed in a way you can't quite put into words. There's another version where you spend half
Rating: 4.0★
There is a premise at the heart of The Defiant Ones so brilliantly simple it almost feels like a provocation: two escaped convicts, one Black and one white, physically shackled together by a heavy iron chain. Stanley Kramer had the nerve to put that image on screen in 1958, long
Rating: 3.5★
Picture the grim, tactical intensity of Heat colliding head-on with the sun-drenched, wave-riding vibes of Blue Crush. That is the gloriously absurd reality of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 classic, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Point Break is a film that should not
Rating: 3.5★
Sometimes you don't need much of an excuse to queue something up. I came to Dario Argento's 1970 directorial debut for two reasons: Argento himself, and Ennio Morricone. And honestly, Morricone was the more pressing of the two. I genuinely consider him the finest composer in
Rating: 2.0★
There is a very specific point where a beloved sci-fi franchise stops being a sharp, satirical triumph and simply devolves into a corporate cash grab. RoboCop 3 is that exact point, and I say that as someone who genuinely loves the original and has a soft spot for the
Rating: 3.5★
I still have a vivid memory of standing in the school playground, clutching a plastic RoboCop action figure, completely oblivious to the razor-sharp, deeply inappropriate satire I was holding in my eight-year-old hands. That memory says everything about the strange cultural place these films occupy. They were
Rating: 3.5★
There is a very specific, giddy thrill in watching Frank Darabont's creature feature The Mist and playing "spot the future television star" before they actually became famous. If you're a fan of the first season of The Walking Dead (which, funnily enough, Darabont also
Rating: 3.0★
Some films arrive with a completely unexpected key that unlocks them. I pressed play on Monkey Shines expecting a reasonably straightforward 80s horror thriller, and about twenty minutes in, I had one of those bizarre pop-culture lightbulb moments that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. This is the exact
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