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SMB Film Thread 2025

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A Real Pain (2024) - 7/10 - Enjoyed this as it just didn't really feel like a movie with a plot as such. It just kind of ambled along as if you were truly watching people on a holiday albeit with some emotional baggage.
 

Nye [2024] 10/10
Confronted with death, NHS founder Nye Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a journey back through his life; from childhood to mining to Parliament.

Watched with National Theatre Live. Michael Sheen is (of course) great. The whole thing is bloody brilliant.
 
Fletch73 said:
Nye [2024] 10/10
Confronted with death, NHS founder Nye Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a journey back through his life; from childhood to mining to Parliament.

Watched with National Theatre Live. Michael Sheen is (of course) great. The whole thing is bloody brilliant.
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This sounds good, right up my street! Was this a recording of a show he’s done at the national that’s is showing In cinemas?
 
Shack said:
A Real Pain (2024) - 7/10 - Enjoyed this as it just didn't really feel like a movie with a plot as such. It just kind of ambled along as if you were truly watching people on a holiday albeit with some emotional baggage.
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Culkin basically playing Roman Roy from Succession
 
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Sort of but maybe a bit more vulnerable. I like that acting style though, feels natural. It worked well against the Jesse Eisenberg character being more straight.
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Quite enjoyed it, also the fact it wasn't 2.5 hours or so for the sake of it 👍
 
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Quite enjoyed it, also the fact it wasn't 2.5 hours or so for the sake of it 👍

Quite enjoyed it, also the fact it wasn't 2.5 hours or so for the sake of it 👍

Quite enjoyed it, also the fact it wasn't 2.5 hours or so for the sake of it 👍
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You can say that again! ;) Yeah, sometimes the length of the movie determines which one I decide to watch also! :lol:
 
Can’t understand people having a go at nosferatu. It was perfect I think. I thought it was very romantic and in the end was actually wanting him to get the girl. I loved the audio on it especially his voice.
 
All I Wanna Do (aka The Hairy Bird, aka Strike!) (1998) 8/10
Dead Poets Society meets teen sex comedy meets Taps. Perfectly decent Miramax-produced film that was buried when Harvey Weinstein took against the female director. Eventually recut by Weinstein, renamed Strike!, and given a very limited release.
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Out of Sight (1998) 8/10
One of the films that saved Steven Soderbergh when his career was down the toilet. Superior adaptation of an Elmore Leonard book with great chemistry between George Clooney and J-Lo (Sandra Bullock was originally cast, but lacked the necessary spark).
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My Name is Loh Kwan (2024) 6/10
A North Korean defector arrives in Brussels, is plunged into homelessness and despair, but eventually makes a life for himself. It starts out unrelentingly bleak, but then grafts on a romance and a gangster subplot. So basically three films mashed into one. In the second half, the tone is all over the place.
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The Queen of My Dreams [2023] 10/10
Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.

F***ing. Loved. This.

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Creep Box (2024). Low budget Cronenbergian style chiller which had a nice atmosphere but needed a few scares. Definitely well made, about a scientist who invents a machine that can communicate with the dead, but should have been better. 5/10.
 
I didn't think much of Emilia Perez last year, but on here I said Karla Sofia Gascon was probably odd-on to become the first transwoman to win a best actress Oscar. Sure enough, she was nominated.

I think the odds have lengthened significantly.

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She's anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, and thinks Hitler was a good lad.

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I didn't think much of Emilia Perez last year, but on here I said Karla Sofia Gascon was probably odd-on to become the first transwoman to win a best actress Oscar. Sure enough, she was nominated.

I think the odds have lengthened significantly.

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If that comes out she’s winning NOWT in Hollywood.
 
A Complete Unknown 8.5/10. Loved it, not sure why I didn't mark it higher. It seemed to get Bob Dylan - a genius, who knew he was a genius but not a particularly nice person. He came across and, I think, is a complete enigma. He made up a lot of his backstory and its difficult to know why he is the way he is. The lead actor was brilliant and I actually prefer his voice to old Bob's. It was two hours twenty but absolutely flew by.
 
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A Complete Unknown 8.5/10. Loved it, not sure why I didn't mark it higher. It seemed to get Bob Dylan - a genius, who knew he was a genius but not a particularly nice person. He came across and, I think, is a complete enigma. He made up a lot of his backstory and its difficult to know why he is the way he is. The lead actor was brilliant and I actually prefer his voice to old Bob's. It was two hours twenty but absolutely flew by.
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Actually said the same better live than Bob 😂 i give it a 9.5 like probably the best music biopic I've seen.
 
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