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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Lovemore said:
Greenberg.

Anyone have mubi? If so,is it worth investing in?
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I got a month free a couple of years ago and get offers every now and then. Currently got 3 months for £1.

I make the most of it and get through as many as I can.

Films I've seen recently that I would recommend on there;

Time of The Wolf
The Delinquents
New Order
Decision to Leave
The Beast
The Settlers
Wild Tales
Prayers for the Stolen.


The Beast and The Settlers my favourites from that.
 
Partridgeshorts said:
I got a month free a couple of years ago and get offers every now and then. Currently got 3 months for £1.

I make the most of it and get through as many as I can.

Films I've seen recently that I would recommend on there;

Time of The Wolf
The Delinquents
New Order
Decision to Leave
The Beast
The Settlers
Wild Tales
Prayers for the Stolen.


The Beast and The Settlers my favourites from that.
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I get the same offer once a year - I've only got Girl with the Needle and Shanghai Blues left to watch before it runs out this month.
Loved Decision to Leave and Prayers for the Stolen.
Also recommend:

Holy Spider
Aftersun
Lamb
Shiva Baby
Bacurau
Perfect Days
Grand Theft Hamlet
Playtime
Another Round
The Taste of Things
 
Cry Vengeance (1954)

Mark Stevens stars and directs this caper. He’s a cop who does time for getting involved with hoods. They kill his wife and daughter, so he has revenge on his mind, and tracks the guilty party to Alaska.

Stevens produces some good shots in this, with a sophistication I didn’t expect. The character development is very ‘of its era’ and a tad creepy/uncomfortable through today’s eyes, but as a standard 50s revenge film, it’s quite a good watch. Skip Homeier is great as a piss-weak unhinged bastard. I liked this. The location shoot is a nice change from shady streets and shitty factories.

7/10
 
VINCENT VEGA said:
Beyond a joke how much they show in trailers these days like sometimes reveal major plot twits ffs
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Can't stand trailers that give away most the film. I time my cinema visits so I'm getting into my seat no sooner than 15 mins after the advertised start time. Usually means I miss most of not all the trailers, and usually get there during the advert for Omniplex/Cineworld just before the film starts.
 
Time Trap (2017).

A true time bender as well as a mind bender in which a group of archeological students get trapped in a cave in search of their professor who disappeared some time ago and discover he was a lot closer to the hippies who disappeared in the 70s than they thought and the reasons why the hippies disappeared.

The group soon discover that time on the surface passes much faster than they realised. Culminating in a battle with cavemen and a spaceman who, now in the future, informs them Earth is dying and humans have resettled on Mars. But not before finding their professor and a few others from different time periods.

They finally emerge in the future and are told Sunderland still are a Championship club but won the EFL Cup.
 
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Partridgeshorts said:
I got a month free a couple of years ago and get offers every now and then. Currently got 3 months for £1.

I make the most of it and get through as many as I can.

Films I've seen recently that I would recommend on there;

Time of The Wolf
The Delinquents
New Order
Decision to Leave
The Beast
The Settlers
Wild Tales
Prayers for the Stolen.


The Beast and The Settlers my favourites from that.
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cheers. I'll check it out. Discovered last night that my region doesn't necessarily show the same films as the UK. Hopefully a few of these are available.
 
abbs said:
Just seen a clip of a film with Nicolas cage as superman,!!!!!
Watched 2 seconds
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Don’t worry. That’s The Flash.

It’s all to do with something called The Chronobowl in The Flash which The Flash can use to go to specific moments in time in his life. At Edwards Air Force Base Supergirl, Batman (Keaton) and two versions of The Flash fight Zod but both Batman and Supergirl die every time they use the Chronobowl to replay the battle in the hope of saving them. The Chronobowl goes on to show us various actors who have played DC superhero’s in the past. This is nod to Zak Snyder who bowed out who handed DC’s reins to James Gunn and Peter Safran who start with Supernan: Legacy. We see Chris Reeve with Helen Slater. Helen was Supergirl when Reeve was Superman but they never shared the same movie. We see Adam West. We see George Reeves. We see Jay Garrick’s The Flash. Nicolas Cages Supernan sort of happened but didn’t. Cage was cast as Superman in Superman Lives in 1999 but budgetary issues meant it failed. Chris Rock played Jimmy Olsen.

Weird but true!
 
Portland Expose (1957)

Edward Binns is the last holdout before letting a load of gambling shit into his business. He relents and starts to rake it in. Eventually he comes to his senses and acts as an informant for a union investigator, complete with 50s style wire tap.

Solid flick with Juror #6 putting in a good performance. It’s mostly old hat, story-wise, but it held my attention nicely throughout. Frank Gorshin (the 60s Riddler) plays a remarkably sleazy character, who seems to have a penchant for very young women. It’s quite unsettling for a mid-50s film.

7/10
 
Dune 2 (2024)
9/10
Watched it on the plane home the other day after watching the first one on the way out. Absolutely class - it’s like if game of thrones and Star Wars had a baby and covered it in spice. Special effects, casting, sound, and the general pacing of the plot were perfect. Well worth all of the hype. Looking forward to the next one.
 
Can You Keep It Up For A Week? (1975)
7/10
Er…wow what a daft film. 🤣
Like a rip off of the Confessions films…a Robin Askwith lookalike does odd jobs for women who end up shagging him or trying to while their kit falls off.
Silly plot but the 70s knockers in this movie are absolute class!
 
The Night of the Hunter [1955] 7.5/10
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

I hadn't seen this for 30 years and had no real memory of it. Mitchum's acting and Laughton's directing are brilliant. The child actor almost ruined it.
 
Fletch73 said:
The Night of the Hunter [1955] 7.5/10
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

I hadn't seen this for 30 years and had no real memory of it. Mitchum's acting and Laughton's directing are brilliant. The child actor almost ruined it.
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I bloody love this film. It's a true classic. I would probs give it an 8.5 mind.
 
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