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SMB Film Thread 2025

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The amateur.

Cia geek wants revenge for the murder of his wife. Tries to be a killer but doesn't have it in him so resorts to his training and unconventional methods to take his revenge.

7/10
 
Flip said:
Watched 28 years last night - Brilliant, under two hours, some jump scares, some poigniant emotional scenes, some great jokes and some surprise membes not in the trailers, I cried I laughed I was scared 9.5/10. I was expecting a disapointed 6.5/10 which is normally what happens when I watch something I'm looking forward to. Better then the first one..
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Possibly seems better than the first because of the dozens of zombie and general monsters-chasing-humans movies and series that followed. New one was sufficiently refreshing

Am still posting about it days after seekng so clearly enjoyed it

Was blaming my Internet connection at first for the poor picture quality on 28 Days, like until remembered it was nearly a quarter of a century ago and partly shot on camcorders or whatever
 
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Possibly seems better than the first because of the dozens of zombie and general monsters-chasing-humans movies and series that followed. New one was sufficiently refreshing

Am still posting about it days after seekng so clearly enjoyed it

Was blaming my Internet connection at first for the poor picture quality on 28 Days, like until remembered it was nearly a quarter of a century ago and partly shot on camcorders or whatever
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The "day for night" scenes in the second film are awful quality.
 
Nessie - Amazon Prime

A relatively pleasant British film that passed about an hour and a half, although the setting could be the star of the show.

5.5/10.
 
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) 6/10
Typically lavish Zeffirelli adaptation of Shakespeare. Richard Burton is in his element, Elizabeth Taylor not so much.
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Kiss Me, Kate (1953) 5/10
Cole Porter's musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Soundtrack includes several standards, but the backstage shenanigans are ludicrous, and Howard Keel is all voice and no charisma.
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Scarface (1983) 7/10
Was sure I'd seen this - turns out, I hadn't. Pretty sure Trump's entire concept of immigration is based on the first few minutes, in which Castro empties his jails and asylums and puts everyone in boats to Florida. Notorious in its day for gratuitous violence, though it seems pretty tame by today's standards.
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Heretic - Hugh Grant plays a radgie as 2 missionaries from church of lds visit his gaff . Not a particular fan of Grant but excellent in this- entertaining and some bits in it had never realised ( music one ) .
Entertaining and a solid 6.75/10 for me.
 
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Heretic - Hugh Grant plays a radgie as 2 missionaries from church of lds visit his gaff . Not a particular fan of Grant but excellent in this- entertaining and some bits in it had never realised ( music one ) .
Entertaining and a solid 6.75/10 for me.
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Just watched this myself last night.

Heretic - Hugh Grant is excellent, but what starts as a grounded slow burner of a horror film takes a bit of a tonal shift for the worst at the midway point and never really recovers.
Entertaining but sometimes less is more.
6/10
 
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I like it 8/10. Anything like this I’ll watch to cheer myself up
 
I like Tom Holland, but I can’t see him being a good choice. He just seems like too much of a tidgypud.

Backfire! (1962)

Edgar Wallace-penned cheapie. Alfred Burke is the co-owner of a cosmetics factory that’s heavily in debt. He concocts an insurance wheeze by hiring an arsonist to burn down the factory. Unfortunately for him, his wife’s mink coat has been left there. And a cleaner has gone to work unexpectedly.

Daft, yet absorbing melodrama. Burke is deliciously ruthless and unsympathetic.

6/10

The White Trap (1959)

Randomly included on the boxset, but only because it was another Anglo-Amalgamated picture from the same producers. It’s a cut above the usual B fayre. Lee Patterson is a man who may or may not be wrongly convicted (we aren’t told). He keeps escaping from the nick. His pregnant wife falls seriously ill, so he makes one final attempt to escape and see her. Conrad Phillips is on his tail.

Interesting little number, this one. It’s cheesy and predictable in places, and fairly average in many respects, where you’ll roll your eyes at the crapness, but there’s an unrelenting bleakness in the final quarter that makes it more engaging. Patterson’s character is quite sympathetic, and there’s an almost throwaway substory about class issues in various jobs, and there’s conflict between old and new methods. It’s not really elaborated on, but at least it adds a touch of colour to the characters.

For what it is, I’d give this 7/10 plus.
 
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