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SMB Film Thread 2025

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What A Whopper
I stumbled upon this on Amazon Prime.
1961 British comedy starring Adam Faith as a writer who travels to Loch Ness to try and renew interest in Nessie in hopes of getting his book on the monster published.
Very much of its time and features a whole host of recognisable faces (Spike Milligan, Wifrid Brambell, Charles Hawtrey, Terry Scott, Sid James, Clive Dunn), with Faith also lending two (presumably contractually obliged songs). It's the kind of film I used to watch with my grandma on telly on a wednesday afternoon!
It is what it is.
5/10
 

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What A Whopper
I stumbled upon this on Amazon Prime.
1961 British comedy starring Adam Faith as a writer who travels to Loch Ness to try and renew interest in Nessie in hopes of getting his book on the monster published.
Very much of its time and features a whole host of recognisable faces (Spike Milligan, Wifrid Brambell, Charles Hawtrey, Terry Scott, Sid James, Clive Dunn), with Faith also lending two (presumably contractually obliged songs). It's the kind of film I used to watch with my grandma on telly on a wednesday afternoon!
It is what it is.
5/10
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I’ve seen that crop up on TPTV loads but never bothered to watch it. I’m still not sure after your comments. It’s not really my kind of film of that era - I prefer crime/noir/mystery stuff. Yet the cast is so impressive it’s keeping my attention on the hook.
 
September 5

The Olympic Games. A terrorist attack. Hostage taking. Carnage.
All rendered mind-numbing via the perspective of some utterly unlikeable TV bods.

4.975/10
 
The Big Risk [1960] 6/10
60s French gangster film starring Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo. I thought I'd like this more but it's a fairly grim look at the aftermath of a heist with a pretty stodgy middle.

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Oh no

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Until last week, my YouTube algorithm had successfully shielded me from his vlog. It then popped up disguised as a random review of Spinal Tap II. Clicking through was worse than being rickrolled. But in an odd way, curiously satisfying that it's every bit as cringeworthy as you'd imagine. (Also, he only seems to have one functioning eye, which perhaps explains a lot, given that his job is to a review a visual medium.)

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Cockney Mackem said:
Also, there's no way those two would have been able to restrict themselves to yearning looks in a cafe. They'd have been jumping each other's bones like angry bonobos
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Burton was between marriages to Elizabeth Taylor, and I don't think he'd have been capable. He spent two years drunk. Sophia was famously loyal to her husband, Carlo Ponti. Plenty of stars had a crack at her (including Peter Sellers, who ended his marriage in order to be with her - and got comprehensively rebuffed), and I don't think any succeeded.
 
Doogie Hauser said:
Brief Encounter (1945)

Moving, technically excellent, beautifully performed and wonderfully paced.

Magnificent.

9/10
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This film was the very first time I"d ever heard the term "diabetes", a condition I'd always assumed was a relatively recent diagnosis term. Very strange how little things like that stick in the mind
 
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