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SMB Film Thread 2025

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riffraff said:
There goes your film nerd credibility.
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Not sure what you mean, fella
Drexl said:
Started watching Tenet again last night as I wanted to revisit it since seeing it during covid. Realised after 40 minutes I still wasn’t following very well despite reading a Reddit thread explaining the plot. Oh and I also forgot Nolan had done the old Michael Mann trick of making the dialogue difficult to hear at times. Will go back to it when I have more time and more attention span available. I remember liking a lot about it on first viewing.
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Two words:

Time Palindrome
 
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Fletch73 said:
The Endless [2017] 7.5/10
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group’s beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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Have shared many a chat with Moorhead and Benson. Top top directors. I wish they’d stick to their smaller lo-fi stuff though and not get sucked into Marvel as they have.
 
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The Endless [2017] 7.5/10
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group’s beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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This one gets bigged up.
Movies for this evening for me.

Cloak and Dagger 1946
High Treason 1930
Sword and Sorcerer 1982

Crackers.
 
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Everything's Going To Be Great (2025) - 6/10 - Brian Cranston as a small time theatre manager who's always looking for the next big thing for his family much to his wife's frustration. There's not a lot to it in one sense but it has a positive message and is an easy watch.
 
Torn Curtain (1966) 6/10
Hitchcock's Cold War thriller. Unfortunately, the studio forced him to use Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as stars. Zero chemistry and their fees used up most of the budget. It's not quite as bad as I remember, and there are some great Hitchcockian moments. But definitely one of his lesser films.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 6/10
Star-studded road movie comedy. The original was 4 hours long. I watched the restored 3.5 hour version, and it felt twice as long. I probably would have loved it as a kid, but the over-reliance on slapstick soon grates.
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Mrs Miniver (1942) 8/10
WWII propaganda film set in a very Americanized version of England. Features brilliant character actor Henry Travers, who was from Prudhoe.
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Freaky Tales (2025)
Had high hopes for this one that has had almost universally good reviews. Eighties set interconnecting stories, that critics said clearly showcased a love for the likes of John Carpenter and Walter Hill so I thought it would tick all the boxes. Thought it was absolutely terrible, ramshackle thin plots that made no sense, and although it really seems like it wants to be Pulp Fiction the only thing it had in common with Tarantino is his propensity at his worst for extreme indulgence.

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Absolutely loved this, like a Yorgos Lanthimos/Walerian Borowczyk/David Cronenberg crossover. It does look like the Pandora's Box of showing close ups of throbbing hard cocks in mainstream film has been well and truly opened in recent years though, probably shouldn't have watched it on the big telly with the blinds open.
 
Marty Moose said:
Freaky Tales (2025)
Had high hopes for this one that has had almost universally good reviews. Eighties set interconnecting stories, that critics said clearly showcased a love for the likes of John Carpenter and Walter Hill so I thought it would tick all the boxes. Thought it was absolutely terrible, ramshackle thin plots that made no sense, and although it really seems like it wants to be Pulp Fiction the only thing it had in common with Tarantino is his propensity at his worst for extreme indulgence.

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Absolutely loved this, like a Yorgos Lanthimos/Walerian Borowczyk/David Cronenberg crossover. It does look like the Pandora's Box of showing close ups of throbbing hard cocks in mainstream film has been well and truly opened in recent years though, probably shouldn't have watched it on the big telly with the blinds open.
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The Ugly Stepsister might be my favourite of 25 so far.
 
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