Morny
Striker
Loved it me like, really good.
Hellish watching it in a full cinema too, proper experience of everyone ooh'ing and ah'ing together and that.
-
The first stage of the forum upgrades has now been completed but they remain in a degraded state and are still being worked on.
Please read this thread for more details.
New user registrations are currently disabled.
SMB Film Thread 2025
- Thread starter Fletch73
- Start date
- Status
Hellish watching it in a full cinema too, proper experience of everyone ooh'ing and ah'ing together and that.
Monty Pigeon
Striker
Superman (2025) 7/10
Better than I expected, though as with all action movies these days it's hard to get invested in obviously CGI set-pieces. Can see why the storyline drove the right-wing nuts.
Sullivan's Travels (1941) 9/10
A Hollywood director wants to make a 'serious' film, so tries to live as a hobo for research. I've always thought the tone is uneven, but in a supplement on the Criterion disc Bill Forsyth shows how Preston Sturges is deliberately using a compendium of cinematic styles: silent, screwball, slapstick, film noir, realism. But like Forsyth, I thought the ending trite and patronising.
Land of Milk and Honey (1971) 6/10
Documentary by French avant garde director Pierre Etaix. Begins brilliantly, with the director himself getting swamped with film in the cutting room. But the rest was a run-of-the-mill evocation of the French working class on holiday, with vox pops about everything from sexuality, to architecture, to the moon landings.
Better than I expected, though as with all action movies these days it's hard to get invested in obviously CGI set-pieces. Can see why the storyline drove the right-wing nuts.
You must be logged on to see media items
Sullivan's Travels (1941) 9/10
A Hollywood director wants to make a 'serious' film, so tries to live as a hobo for research. I've always thought the tone is uneven, but in a supplement on the Criterion disc Bill Forsyth shows how Preston Sturges is deliberately using a compendium of cinematic styles: silent, screwball, slapstick, film noir, realism. But like Forsyth, I thought the ending trite and patronising.
You must be logged on to see media items
Land of Milk and Honey (1971) 6/10
Documentary by French avant garde director Pierre Etaix. Begins brilliantly, with the director himself getting swamped with film in the cutting room. But the rest was a run-of-the-mill evocation of the French working class on holiday, with vox pops about everything from sexuality, to architecture, to the moon landings.
You must be logged on to see external links
Last edited:
Shack
Striker
The Luckiest Man in America (2024) - 6/10 - This follows a contestant on a US 80s game show who has figured out a way to beat the show's computer. A bit of a nostalgia trip and Paul Walter Hauser plays a good part as the eccentric ice cream seller winning on each press of the button but ultimately there's not much to it including a predictable back story.
Last edited:
craigypants
Striker
Hallow Road (2025). Middle class parents race to save their child in the middle of the night. Ghostly thriller which reminded me of Locke. Annoying crap in my opinion but I'm sure you might disagree...3/10 (coz it's very short).
CPLforever
Winger
Two Chefs. A film set in the Bilbao foodie scene
Bloody hilarious. Watch it. I order you.
Bloody hilarious. Watch it. I order you.
The right wing twats seem to forget the part in Superman where the reason he's a decent person you can rely on is that he grew up in an honest to goodness decent American family in Kansas
The Dry
Enjoy this Aussie flick with a good turn by Eric Bana. So much so in fact I’ve put the sequel straight on.
Very much a typical whodunnit tv show in movie format. I like Bana though and it’s good to see he’s getting a bit more work these days.
Enjoy this Aussie flick with a good turn by Eric Bana. So much so in fact I’ve put the sequel straight on.
Very much a typical whodunnit tv show in movie format. I like Bana though and it’s good to see he’s getting a bit more work these days.
Motor City Cobra
Striker
Valkyrie (for about the 10th time)
Cruise, nighy, Branagh, Wilkinson, stamp
Based on the July 20th and last of the attempts by German people to assassinate hitler.
Almost perfection for me, brillaint actors, pacing is bang on the money, superb tension at times. One of my favourite films.
A superb 9.9/10
Cruise, nighy, Branagh, Wilkinson, stamp
Based on the July 20th and last of the attempts by German people to assassinate hitler.
Almost perfection for me, brillaint actors, pacing is bang on the money, superb tension at times. One of my favourite films.
A superb 9.9/10
NewAdventuresInWiFi
Striker
Antlers
Weird as fcuk horror nonsense.
6.7/10.
Weird as fcuk horror nonsense.
6.7/10.
Fletch73
Midfield
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [2025] 4/10
A film drowning in it's own self-importance and reverence for the saviour of the worldTom Cruise Ethan Hunt. The fact it does this for THREE F***ING HOURS only makes it worse.
So much of this is entirely unnecessary, from the flashbacks and constant speeches deifying Ethan to the Jim Phelps Jr storyline (WTAF??).
Saying that, I did love the William Donloe callback and the rolling submarine sequence was fantastic.
A film drowning in it's own self-importance and reverence for the saviour of the world
So much of this is entirely unnecessary, from the flashbacks and constant speeches deifying Ethan to the Jim Phelps Jr storyline (WTAF??).
Saying that, I did love the William Donloe callback and the rolling submarine sequence was fantastic.
Monty Pigeon
Striker
Well, that's one way to get unsuspecting punters to watch a film about a necrophiliac in Notting Hill.
Logon or register to see this image
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
Hidden Homicide (1959)
Griffith Jones goes to sleep at home. He wakes up in a different house with a gun on him and a dead body in another room.
The set-up is intriguing. The play-out is very clumsily put together. Shame, because Jones is a solid actor.
3.5/10
Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
A wheelchair-bound woman runs a sort of retirement home for an odd collection of old biddies. One day, a grizzled auld twat turns up and starts throwing her weight around.
Curiously absorbing with a wry sense of humour in places. This really could have benefitted from an extra 20 minutes of character and plot development. As it stands, it’s succinct and reasonably entertaining.
6/10
Griffith Jones goes to sleep at home. He wakes up in a different house with a gun on him and a dead body in another room.
The set-up is intriguing. The play-out is very clumsily put together. Shame, because Jones is a solid actor.
3.5/10
Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
A wheelchair-bound woman runs a sort of retirement home for an odd collection of old biddies. One day, a grizzled auld twat turns up and starts throwing her weight around.
Curiously absorbing with a wry sense of humour in places. This really could have benefitted from an extra 20 minutes of character and plot development. As it stands, it’s succinct and reasonably entertaining.
6/10
Fletch73
Midfield
Hallow Road [2025] 9/10
80 minutes of chest-pounding psycho-drama that pivots into folk-horror.
Really f***ing loved this (as did Kermode) but I think a lot won't. From the same director of Under the Shadow, which was also an excellent confined location drama.
80 minutes of chest-pounding psycho-drama that pivots into folk-horror.
Really f***ing loved this (as did Kermode) but I think a lot won't. From the same director of Under the Shadow, which was also an excellent confined location drama.
You must be logged on to see media items
NewAdventuresInWiFi
Striker
Alone 2020 thriller
Jules Wilcox & Marc Menchaca.
A recently widowed lass gans on a road trip to escape her life & ultimately move elsewhere & a complete nutjob obsessively stalks her.
Cracking film
Jules Wilcox & Marc Menchaca.
A recently widowed lass gans on a road trip to escape her life & ultimately move elsewhere & a complete nutjob obsessively stalks her.
Cracking film
You must be logged on to see media items
Calpricorn
Midfield
Escape from New York (1981) - Decided to give it a watch with Carpenter doing two of my favourite films (The Thing & Big Trouble in Little China), and also MGS being one of my favourite game series’. Heard that Kojima used Plissken as inspiration, but inspiration is putting it mildly 
Really enjoyed it, the action doesn’t hold up very well but the aesthetic and world is great. Got to mention, Carpenter scores are up there with the very best. Kurt Russell just oozes class in every role he does - 7/10.
Really enjoyed it, the action doesn’t hold up very well but the aesthetic and world is great. Got to mention, Carpenter scores are up there with the very best. Kurt Russell just oozes class in every role he does
- 7/10.
Monty Pigeon
Striker
Sunset Boulevard (1950) 10/10
Long one of my favourites - seems to get better with every viewing. (Amazing to note that Nancy Olson, who plays the love interest, is still alive aged 97.)
Breezy (1973) 8/10
Perhaps Clint Eastwood's least known directorial effort. Serves as a kind of companion piece to Sunset Boulevard. In this case, a 17-year-old hippy takes refuge in the house of a jaded middle-aged man, played by William Holden, and subverts his life.
And Everything is Going Fine (2010) 8/10
Stephen Soderbergh's documentary about Spalding Gray, who made his reputation with one-man shows talking about his own life, and died by suicide. The subtext is that despite the fact that he seemingly revealed everything about his life, he remained an enigma.
Long one of my favourites - seems to get better with every viewing. (Amazing to note that Nancy Olson, who plays the love interest, is still alive aged 97.)
You must be logged on to see media items
Breezy (1973) 8/10
Perhaps Clint Eastwood's least known directorial effort. Serves as a kind of companion piece to Sunset Boulevard. In this case, a 17-year-old hippy takes refuge in the house of a jaded middle-aged man, played by William Holden, and subverts his life.
You must be logged on to see media items
And Everything is Going Fine (2010) 8/10
Stephen Soderbergh's documentary about Spalding Gray, who made his reputation with one-man shows talking about his own life, and died by suicide. The subtext is that despite the fact that he seemingly revealed everything about his life, he remained an enigma.
You must be logged on to see media items
pfoz88
Winger
Never seen this, should check it out.
Harry Gates
Winger
Swimming to Cambodia is a great/strange watch, particularly for film buffs.
fyl2u
Striker
Juror #2 (2024)
Partially-courtroom-based psychological drama directed by (but not starring) Clint Eastwood.
A juror in a murder trial is worried that he himself might be the accidental killer in the case being tried.
Decent, not outstanding. Eastwood's made better movies but it isn't horrible.
6.7 / 10
Wolfs (2024)
Fairly tame action-comedy with Clooney and Pitt as two lone wolf problem solvers who get hired for the same job. They have to work together reluctantly to fix a mess that seems to spiral at every step.
Nice to see these actors working together again. Very much not an Oceans 11 but a fairly entertaining ride nonetheless.
6.8 / 10
Partially-courtroom-based psychological drama directed by (but not starring) Clint Eastwood.
A juror in a murder trial is worried that he himself might be the accidental killer in the case being tried.
Decent, not outstanding. Eastwood's made better movies but it isn't horrible.
6.7 / 10
Wolfs (2024)
Fairly tame action-comedy with Clooney and Pitt as two lone wolf problem solvers who get hired for the same job. They have to work together reluctantly to fix a mess that seems to spiral at every step.
Nice to see these actors working together again. Very much not an Oceans 11 but a fairly entertaining ride nonetheless.
6.8 / 10
Last edited:
- Status
