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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Ed Kemper. 2025

No more than a tv movie. Only watched as I’m fascinated by his crimes. The bloke playing him is about 5 foot 8 and Kemper is 6.7 I think. Anyway it’s alright I suppose. Would have been better as a tv series. I’d give it a 5 out of 5.
 
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) 9/10
Always great to find an overlooked classic. I think this one qualifies. A terrific WWII film from an unusual perspective: William Holden as a Swedish businessman working undercover for the Allies in Nazi Germany. Perhaps a tad too long, but the authentic locations make up for that.
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Play Dirty (1969) 7/10
Michael Caine tries to lead a rogue commando group behind enemy lines in North Africa. The line between good and bad guys is deliberately blurred, making for an interesting take on WWII. A bit heavy-handed at times, but a decent ending. (According to Caine, they were shooting in Spain at the same time as the Western Shalako. The rival crews - one filming WWII tanks, the other cowboys on horseback - were forever getting in each other's way.)
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) 7/10
Interesting snapshot of apartheid South Africa, though a shame it had to rely on black American actors and white British actors for the leads, undermining the authenticity. The book is better.
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Nosferatu (2024) - 5/10- Read this had good reviews but thought it was clichéd shite personally. Appreciate it's a remake but it's all been done before and it was the same old.
 
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Nosferatu (2024) - 5/10- Read this had good reviews but thought it was clichéd shite personally. Appreciate it's a remake but it's all been done before and it was the same old.
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Didn't make it past 10 minutes because she can't act. That's the prerequisite for performers surely? Bella Ramsey should have played the part. Much better actress.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
Play Dirty (1969) 7/10
Michael Caine tries to lead a rogue commando group behind enemy lines in North Africa. The line between good and bad guys is deliberately blurred, making for an interesting take on WWII. A bit heavy-handed at times, but a decent ending.
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Good review, the only redeeming feature on display is the will to survive.

i love the long range desert group films, must be all the hours spent at Crimdon.
 
Rebel ridge - half decent thriller. Nice change that they went with corrupt rather than racist cops, plus the hero didn’t go all Rambo on them which would have been tempting.6/10
 
Wrath of Man. 6/10

Greatest compliment I can pay this, I wouldn't have known it was a Guy Ritchie film.

Not a Statham hater like some on here and he was called Limey fairly early on so we could identify the accent.

Enjoyable romp.
 
The Sleeping City (1950)

Richard Conte is an undercover rozzer working in a hospital to find out who murdered an intern, and why. His roommate (Alex Nicol) seems troubled, but he clicks with a friendly nurse (Coleen Gray).

The technical aspects of this film are above average. Conte is very good as usual, and there’s an impressive use of angles and camera positioning. The story is solid, if unremarkable. The character work is decent. The old lift attendant is amusing.

As a whole, though, it doesn’t soar as it should. Part of this may be down to me - I watched it while absolutely knackered and my concentration levels were lacking. So I feel like I owe it another watch. Part of it may also be down to the lousy print I watched until the halfway point. The sound was horrendously tinny, and barely understandable. I switched to a different one, which had better sound but was blurrier. It was also the Full Moon Matinee channel that insists on breaking the film up with interludes featuring a git in a fedora.

As it stands, it’s a 6/10, but I think it could be higher if I watched it properly. I did find the intro amusing, which had Conte telling us that the film was fictional and that the hospital it was filmed in was amazing. I figure that someone, somewhere, thought this was necessary to prevent people thinking that the hospital was a breeding ground for corruption and murderers. Usually those disclaimers were presented as text and/or narrated.
 
Shattered Glass (2003)

Hayden Christensen is the reporter whose stories don’t quite add up. Peter Sarsgaard the editor tasked with fact checking. A solid newsroom drama. A strange one in that you’re not rooting for any of the characters.

7/10
 
Let the Corpses Tan [2017] 8/10
A 90-minute, horny, blood-soaked, triple-crossing giallo/western, hyper-edited by a f***ing maniac. Loved it.
Currently on MUBI.

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