The TV movie has produced some of cinema's most unsung work, from Spielberg's career-launching Duel to Werner Herzog's haunting Lessons of Darkness. Made under commercial constraints yet often freed from studio conservatism, the format rewards closer attention than it usually gets. See what Macca makes of the titles below.
Rating: 3.0★
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picture book The Gruffalo's Child arrived in 2004, five years after the original The Gruffalo had become one of the best-selling children's books in British publishing history. Where the first book introduced a clever little mouse spinning predators
Rating: 4.0★
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler published The Gruffalo in 1999, and within a decade it had become one of those rare children's books that parents can recite from memory whether they want to or not. The rhyming couplets, the woodland setting, the mouse with an improbable imagination: all
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular kind of British Christmas television that asks very little of you and gives back rather a lot. Magic Light Pictures and the BBC have been quietly building that tradition since 2009, adapting the picture books of Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler into short animated films
Rating: 3.5★
Sarah Maldoror occupies a singular position in the history of world cinema. Born in France to Guadeloupean parents, she studied filmmaking in Moscow in the late 1950s alongside figures who would go on to define Third Cinema, and she spent much of her career making films on the African continent,
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★
The Maldives is not a country that gets much screen time in the history of world cinema. A small island nation in the Indian Ocean, its domestic film industry has remained largely invisible to international audiences, producing a handful of features and TV movies over the decades that rarely find
Genre Music
Style Wars (1983)
Genre War
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Genre Comedy
★★ — Travolta and Me (1993)
Genre War
★★★½ — The War Game (1966)
Genre Documentary
Seven Up! (1964)
Genre Tv Movie
★★ — U.S. Go Home (1994)
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