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SMB Film Thread 2025
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Motor City Cobra
Striker
What’s it about like.
MadMackem10
Winger
I think I might prefer it to the first. Josh O’Connor is brilliant in it, that phone call scene alone shows it’s far more than just a typical murder mystery
Brett
Striker
I could happily have a new one every year, yea that scene is great
League Wan
Winger
I thought it was. Probably better than the original to be honest
Fletch73
Midfield
F***in' heresy. There's nee Maria Conchita Alonso for a start.
Speakeasy
Full Back
I was really disappointed by it. Preferred the original, even though it took massive liberties with the plot of the original novel.
Arfa Sleep
Striker
I watched A House of Dynamite tonight, it was canny up until the ending.
League Wan
Winger
Nee Arnie either. Think the film itself was better like
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
Hunted (1952) - YouTube 4K print
Dirk Bogarde is found by a kid standing over a dead body in a ruin. He panics and abducts the eyewitness. They travel the length of the country to escape the law.
Entertaining and accomplished British noir which hangs on the dynamic between the leads. There’s a lot to admire here. The film jumps straight into the action. There’s a good sense of situation and environment throughout. There’s a mix of dialogue-driven narrative and visual narrative. It’s well-photographed. I particularly like the scene where Bogarde reveals his own backstory through a bedtime story.
There’s also a reasonable amount to unpack. The guilt of Bogarde is never questioned, and his actions aren’t justified, but the viewer definitely sympathises. The child abuse referenced is bold for the era.
I’d easily give this 7.5, but could even extend to an 8. I enjoyed every minute.
Desperate Moment (1953) - Youtube
Another Dirk on the run film, yet it feels entirely different to the one above. He plays a condemned man, innocent of the crime he confessed to, but he wanted to save his mates when he was told his lass (Mai Zetterling) was dead. Turns out, she wasn’t, so he escapes and has to try to find eyewitnesses to acquit him.
Able support is offered by Philip Friend, Albert Lieven and a young Theodore Bikel. A decent film that’s nicely-paced and focused. Bogarde is very good in this, too, but plays it very differently to Hunted.
7/10
Dirk Bogarde is found by a kid standing over a dead body in a ruin. He panics and abducts the eyewitness. They travel the length of the country to escape the law.
Entertaining and accomplished British noir which hangs on the dynamic between the leads. There’s a lot to admire here. The film jumps straight into the action. There’s a good sense of situation and environment throughout. There’s a mix of dialogue-driven narrative and visual narrative. It’s well-photographed. I particularly like the scene where Bogarde reveals his own backstory through a bedtime story.
There’s also a reasonable amount to unpack. The guilt of Bogarde is never questioned, and his actions aren’t justified, but the viewer definitely sympathises. The child abuse referenced is bold for the era.
I’d easily give this 7.5, but could even extend to an 8. I enjoyed every minute.
Desperate Moment (1953) - Youtube
Another Dirk on the run film, yet it feels entirely different to the one above. He plays a condemned man, innocent of the crime he confessed to, but he wanted to save his mates when he was told his lass (Mai Zetterling) was dead. Turns out, she wasn’t, so he escapes and has to try to find eyewitnesses to acquit him.
Able support is offered by Philip Friend, Albert Lieven and a young Theodore Bikel. A decent film that’s nicely-paced and focused. Bogarde is very good in this, too, but plays it very differently to Hunted.
7/10
Andy_Roker1983
Striker
4 friends in a car stuck on a road that never ends some sort of loop. Then apart from that I don’t know. It’s one of them that finishes and you look at each other and say wtf
Motor City Cobra
Striker
Sounds gash marra
Rammstein
Midfield
Watched it last night, Emma Stone was good ( as she always is ), but Jesse Plemons was outstanding.
A solid 8/10 for me.
Utter shite. Gave up after 10 minutes.
Stick to drinking, Mel. It's what you do best..... as an actor these days, you're shocking.
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He was great in Dragged Across Concrete but that's about it.
Rammstein
Midfield
That's how he spends his drinking sessions......
Speakeasy
Full Back
French Lover - Netflix
Other half was very stressed last night about an interview today, so let her pick something for complete escapism to take her mind off it.
Think Notting Hill but the other way round - unlucky-in-love waitress ends up spilling drink over the most famous heartthrob actor in France, without having a clue who he is. Cue unlikely love affair with much silliness, and quirky side characters, just like Notting Hill.
Incredibly unoriginal, but actually wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Sara Girardeau is suitably clumsy and loveable in the 'Hugh Grant' role and Omar Sy is ridiculously charismatic and charming, as he is in everything.
6.5/10
Other half was very stressed last night about an interview today, so let her pick something for complete escapism to take her mind off it.
Think Notting Hill but the other way round - unlucky-in-love waitress ends up spilling drink over the most famous heartthrob actor in France, without having a clue who he is. Cue unlikely love affair with much silliness, and quirky side characters, just like Notting Hill.
Incredibly unoriginal, but actually wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Sara Girardeau is suitably clumsy and loveable in the 'Hugh Grant' role and Omar Sy is ridiculously charismatic and charming, as he is in everything.
6.5/10
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Monty Pigeon
Striker
Die My Love (2025) 8/10
Latest from Lynne Ramsay, with some parallels to Morvern Callar. Jennifer Lawrence is extraordinary as a mother dealing with postnatal depression.
Peterloo (2018) 8/10
Not your usual Mike Leigh film. Historical drama centred on the Peterloo Massacre. Meticulously done, though some scenes sound like those audio reenactments you sometimes get in historic houses (eg Washington Old Hall).
Fanny and Alexander (1982) 10/10
My Number 1 Christmas movie. Not watched it for a few years. Ingmar Bergman's most Dickensian movie.
Latest from Lynne Ramsay, with some parallels to Morvern Callar. Jennifer Lawrence is extraordinary as a mother dealing with postnatal depression.
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Peterloo (2018) 8/10
Not your usual Mike Leigh film. Historical drama centred on the Peterloo Massacre. Meticulously done, though some scenes sound like those audio reenactments you sometimes get in historic houses (eg Washington Old Hall).
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Fanny and Alexander (1982) 10/10
My Number 1 Christmas movie. Not watched it for a few years. Ingmar Bergman's most Dickensian movie.
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Fletch73
Midfield
Been looking for Christmas films to watch, I'll give this a go.
Boz33
Striker
Yep, failed to see what all the hype was about
Monty Pigeon
Striker
Watch the 5-hour uncut TV version if you can. It's not all set in winter, but the story arc, and the opening couple of hours, are quintessentially Christmas.
(The background makes it even more poignant. Gunn Wållgren, playing the family matriarch, had terminal cancer, yet delivers the performance of her career. Sweden's greatest actor, Gunnar Björnstrand, had Alzheimer's, but Bergman insisted on casting him. He's a shadow of his former self, but somehow Bergman managed to get a performance out of him.)
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