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SMB Film Thread 2026

Speakeasy said:
That's a bold claim! Ive never seen Anatomy Of A Murder but it would have you go some way to beat 12 Angry Men. Will have to give this a watch some time.
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I love 12 Angry Men, but with this one is full of moral questions that it deliberately leaves unanswered. And Jimmy Stewart and George C Scott are a match for Henry Fonda and Lee J Cobb - extraordinary performances.

They're both masterpieces, and ultimately it comes down to personal preference.
 

Monty Pigeon said:
I love 12 Angry Men, but with this one is full of moral questions that it deliberately leaves unanswered. And Jimmy Stewart and George C Scott are a match for Henry Fonda and Lee J Cobb - extraordinary performances.

They're both masterpieces, and ultimately it comes down to personal preference.
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I haven’t seen it either. Stewart and Scott are fantastic, though, so I can believe that they match Fonda and Cobb.
 
riffraff said:
I can’t stand him. I was dragged along to see him do Shakespeare up the West End about 15yrs back. Emperors knew clothes stuff it was. It was more like a carry on play than serious theatre. The crowd going down the stairs afterwards seemed all in agreement with me anarl.

I think there’s decent ideas behind both of em but that got lost somewhere along the line. Mind I’ve not seen either since their initial cinema run.
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New ferchrIssakes
 
Some new ones:

Send Help [2026] 5/10
Other than perving on Rachel McAdams, this did nowt for me. Didn't feel like a Raimi film at all.
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Ready or Not 2 [2026] 4/10
Other than perving on Samara Weaving, this did nowt for me. Not a patch on the first.
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The Bride! [2026] 6/10
This was one of my most anticipated movies when it was announced and while I loved the 30's Bonnie and Clyde vibe, The Bride's Mary Shelley possession lost me.
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MARCH/APRIL Cinema Round Up:

James Acaster - 8/10
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You - 8.5/10
⏪ The Departed - 7/10
Heel - 5/10
Project Hail Mary - 6/10
Ready or Not 2- 6/10
⏪ Romeo + Juliet - 6.5/10
The Drama - 7/10
⏪ Amélie - 9/10
Hokum - 7.5/10
Michael - 3/10
 
Fletch73 said:
Some new ones:

Send Help [2026] 5/10
Other than perving on Rachel McAdams, this did nowt for me. Didn't feel like a Raimi film at all.
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I feel like Send Help would have been a perfectly good episode of an anthology TV show, like if Inside No9 did hour long episodes or Tales of the Unexpected did gore. Stretched out to feature film length it was fairly obvious there wasn't enough story
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Violent Playground (1958) - YouTube

Stanley Baker is reassigned, in the middle of an investigation into a serial arsonist, to the role of juvenile liaison officer. He has to try to rehabilitate kids after the first offence, to try and prevent today’s petty criminals turning into tomorrow’s career villains. He finds himself tied closely to an Irish family living on a council estate. David McCallum is the eldest son, and local gang leader.

Preachy and naive to a degree, I nevertheless found this utterly fascinating. It’s full of contradictions and mixed messages, but I think that’s the point. It advocates a liberal social approach, while admitting that some kids seem determined to fail.

Baker is typically solid and engaging, McCallum is a livewire who can provoke sympathy and utter contempt, and Peter Cushing is warm as the local vicar.

I really enjoyed the ending, but it only worked because of the careful build-up.

8/10
 
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I still remember as a kid, with 4 TV channels available, if I was very. careful with the TV dial I might be able to pick up Yorkshire TV that had a different film on and now look at it 😂 Remarkable.
 
Drexl said:
A 4 is…erm…interesting…

A best picture nominee btw at the Oscar’s that year.
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Whilst I will say to you a best picture nomination or in fact win does not necessarily indicate a good, entertaining or interesting picture has been produced for general consumption, I agree that Get Out is worth more than a 4, easily a 7 or 8 for me and I far preferred it to US. Ah well the world would be a less interesting place if we all thought the same.
 
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