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SMB Film Thread 2025

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craigypants said:
Rosamund Pike? Her acting is fine. The daughter in distress has a hell of an annoying voice though. Guess you would given the situation.
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I was going to post a review but i agree with everything you say. Started off ok but got really annoying.
The Wailing (2016)

Had this to watch for around five years and never seemed to get into it, finally got through it last night and thought it was class. A bit long maybe at over 2.5 hours but really creepy, builds from what you think is going to be standard zombie fayre to something completely different, shamen, ghosts, demons, exorcisms' the works and all the time keeping you guessing what is happening and who the baddie is. Quite disturbing in parts and its stayed with me, been thinking about some of the plot twists today. If you like Horror/Korean movies and don't mind subtitles give it a go 8/10
steadybreeze said:
I was going to post a review but i agree with everything you say. Started off ok but got really annoying.
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steadybreeze said:
The Wailing (2016)

Had this to watch for around five years and never seemed to get into it, finally got through it last night and thought it was class. A bit long maybe at over 2.5 hours but really creepy, builds from what you think is going to be standard zombie fayre to something completely different, shamen, ghosts, demons, exorcisms' the works and all the time keeping you guessing what is happening and who the baddie is. Quite disturbing in parts and its stayed with me, been thinking about some of the plot twists today. If you like Horror/Korean movies and don't mind subtitles give it a go 8/10
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steadybreeze said:
I was going to post a review but i agree with everything you say. Started off ok but got really annoying.
The Wailing (2016)

Had this to watch for around five years and never seemed to get into it, finally got through it last night and thought it was class. A bit long maybe at over 2.5 hours but really creepy, builds from what you think is going to be standard zombie fayre to something completely different, shamen, ghosts, demons, exorcisms' the works and all the time keeping you guessing what is happening and who the baddie is. Quite disturbing in parts and its stayed with me, been thinking about some of the plot twists today. If you like Horror/Korean movies and don't mind subtitles give it a go 8/10
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Have you seen Exhuma?

My best way to describe it is a Bubblegum pop partner to The Wailing.
 
Wrath of man

Guy Richie film - very underrated for me.
Statham perfect for the role 😎

Crime thriller/heist revenge thriller. Armed robbers kill a bystander resulting in a crime boss seeking revenge.
Fast paced with some class action scenes in it, excellent score anarl

Switch off, don’t get all Barry Norman and you’ll enjoy it
Gets a very solid Cobra score of 8/10
 
Motor City Cobra said:
Wrath of man

Guy Richie film - very underrated for me.
Statham perfect for the role 😎

Crime thriller/heist revenge thriller. Armed robbers kill a bystander resulting in a crime boss seeking revenge.
Fast paced with some class action scenes in it, excellent score anarl

Switch off, don’t get all Barry Norman and you’ll enjoy it
Gets a very solid Cobra score of 8/10
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3/10 that one. Too slow and chod acting.

Joking. It’s a good film, I enjoyed it a lot!
 
Fetch Fletch said:
well I’m annoyed.

Went to watch The Descent on my Apple library.

Vanished.

No longer on the store either.

Twats.

And before anyone says physical media, I have it! I just don’t have a player anymore.
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can they actually do that to us? Just take away a film we've paid good money to 'own'?
 
Fetch Fletch said:
Sadly aye, and it’s the grey area of digital “owning”. It’s the same with music and games too.
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Good to know, cheers. I kind of thought that might be the case, but I just couldn't understand how they could do that. But of course I've never bothered to read terms and conditions. I don't have a massive library of digital films. Maybe 50 or so. I'll stick to Blu rays etc in the future. Most of my digital purchases have come about from convenience and the film I'd wanted to watch being about the same price as it it is to rent. This is Apple I'm talking about.
 
The Last Crooked Mike (1946)

Don Barry looks for the missing loot after a bank robbery goes awry. Ann Savage also features. Not bad, but nothing to write home about. Barry tries to have a tough cheeky chappie persona and it only half works.

5/10


Fools Rush In (1955)

A boat is held up by modern day pirates. The diamond haul is tracked by a photographer and his wife. Vaguely competent cheapie until the attempts at filming fights and chases. They are utterly bloody awful.

3/10


The Day they Robbed the Bank of England (1959)

Irish Nationalists hire an American (Aldo Ray) to plan a heist that carries a political rather than material message - lifting a million in gold from the safest vault in the country. He befriends the chief of the guards at the bank (Peter O’Toole) in order to case the joint. Elizabeth Sellars is the love interest, and there’s small roles for Albert Sharper, Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier and Andrew Keir.

A genuinely good film, with some neat and tidy performances from the leads, and a very focused narrative. I like these heist films a lot, but this one felt different. The sense of time and place is nicely sketched, and the whole thing has an air of confidence and accomplishment.

7.5/10 but close to an 8.


The Big Clock (1948)

Ray Milland is a magazine editor working for rotund gobshite media mogul Charles Laughton. Milland gets pissed and escapes Laughton’s girlfriend’s flat just before Laughton arrives. Laughton sees Milland’s outline but doesn’t recognise him. Laughton kills her in a rage and needs a scapegoat, so gets his staff to track down the mystery man at the flat. The police aren’t told, so Milland effectively has to set his team investigating himself.

Ingenious in its execution, this has a very complex narrative. It’s tricky at times to keep track of who knows what, but that’s part of the skill of the story. I marvelled numerous times at the layers of complication, as Milland desperately tries to search for a way to exonerate himself before his boss realises that it was he at the flat. The sense of claustrophobia that builds is tangible.

The cast are uniformly good, and I especially liked Elsa Lanchester as the batty artist. Camerawork is dynamic and cuts are long and engrossing. A top class noir.

9/10


No Road Back (1957)

Blind and deaf club owner Margaret Rawlings is a bit of a crime boss. She greenlights one last job, led by Paul Carpenter and his crew:
Sean Connery and Alfie Bass. Her son returns from America and gets wind of the whole affair, furiously demanding that his girlfriend Patricia Dainton (Rawlings’ eyes and ears interpreter) gets out of the whole business.

Not too bad, but unremarkable. When things get messy, it gets more interesting, and seeing Sean Connery in an early role is canny.

5/10
 
safcforever said:
Very predator like.
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I thought that from the description.

"Recon unit specialising in rescue ops travels into the jungle to find a missing unit of Green Berets..." HAAAAANG ON...

It's based on a series of books though. The first book was 2017 so it could well be that it's the author of the books that plagiarised Predator for his concept.
 
Cure (1997)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs this story of a detective trying to solve a string of murders committed without motive. Investigations in cool clothes never seemed so unsettling. Cinematography in this is superb. So much subtext which I’ll have to read many Reddit boards to understand fully. I’ve waited for years to see this and it didn’t disappoint.

Strange one mind, barely available to view anywhere. The cinema I was in was frequently checking no one had phones as well, something to do with copyright perhaps? I don’t know.

9/10
 
Amadeus (1984 - remastered 2024)

Loved this when I saw this years ago, and really wanted to go see it when a newly remastered edition was released in limited cinemas a month or two ago. Sadly no cinemas near me were showing it, so have had to wait for it to be available to buy on streaming.

Pleased to say it's still as brilliant as it was back when I first saw it, and looks glorious in ultra HD. Possibly my favourite music biopic, though the purists will argue that it's probably more fiction than actual fact!

9/10
 
Fetch Fletch said:
well I’m annoyed.

Went to watch The Descent on my Apple library.

Vanished.

No longer on the store either.

Twats.

And before anyone says physical media, I have it! I just don’t have a player anymore.
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Yes, PHYSICAL MEDIA

Get a new player

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Doogie Hauser said:
I remember trying to read Congo after I’d read Jurassic Park. I didn’t get far.
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I can't watch Congo without thinking of Not The Nine O'Clock News "Wild? I was livid!"
 
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