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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Weapons 2025

8/10

Really enjoyed it to be honest. That’s what the standard should be for all new original films at the cinema. No more “Jurassic Park 7”s, Avengers or repetitive, formulaic shite. Just a well made film which is entertaining to watch. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good time. Decent cast and plot. Kept me guessing and had a few funny bits chucked in.
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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.
 

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
 
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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).
 
Monty Pigeon said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
 
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
 
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [2025] 4/10
A film drowning in it's own self-importance and reverence for the saviour of the world Tom 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.
 
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
 
Just seen Weapons.
Best film I've seen this year. Scary, gory and surprisingly funny.
Not really a horror fan, but I thought it was absolutely brilliant.👍
 
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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.

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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

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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 :lol:

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 :cool: - 7/10.
 
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.)
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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.
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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.
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Motor City Cobra said:
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
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Never seen this, should check it out.
 
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
 
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