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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Nick Nolte 😳

As long as it matches WNTTAK…

Although You were never really here was close.
For anyone remotely interested

sinners currently sits at 100% after 35 reviews on RT. Hasn’t appeared on Metacritic yet but reading the reviews, they’re not just 3/5 types, they’re glowing.

Looks right up my street that.
 
Love it. Fab old film.

The Pushover (1954) - Fred MacMurray initially starts to woo Kim Novak as part of a sting operation. Her fella is on the run after robbing a bank and shooting a cop. But daft Fred starts to fall for her properly. His plans to get the dough and run off with her become ever-more elaborate, as he betrays his fellow cops.

There’s some great tension building here, and nice work from people like Philip Carey and EG Marshall. It’s an old fashioned noir, with the focus on the main character falling deeper and deeper into stupid actions.

7.5/10
Daft for falling for Kim Novak? WTF?
 
The Assessment
Better than I expected, this film about the threat of AI, and our reliance on it, felt very now.

I can tell you from the off it’s not going to be for everyone. It feels very much like an adaptation of a theatre production, and nobody is particularly worth “rooting for”, but I liked it. It’s very bleak but the cast carry it well. Was a fan of Elizabeth Olsen pre Avengers, but she became a one not neurotic after. She’s probably the weakest here, there’s a fantastic turn by a very bitter Minnie Driver but Alicia vikander excels.

Overall, unless you find The Handmaids Tale a sitcom, I’d make sure you’re in a good place before watching. It may just make you think.
 
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