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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Train Dreams - Netflix

Beautiful, thoughtful and tender film. One of the best films I've seen this year, with a brilliant performance from Joel Edgerton.

For all that there are seemingly endless troughs of absolute shite that Netflix has commissioned and produced, occasionally they produce something genuinely interesting with some real heft. I'd put this up there with All Quiet on the Western Front, Uncut Gems, Power of The Dog, Marriage Story and Roma as one of the best films they've ever done.

9/10
 
The Tiger (2015) 7/10
The story of a hunt to kill the last tiger in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1925. Way too long, and as always with CGI animals the tiger doesn't look or behave like the real thing.
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The Thing (1982) 8/10
Somehow I'd never seen this. 4K doesn't do the special effects any favours, but this film's influence is in so many other subsequent films and TV series I've seen.
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Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 5/10
Never been a fan of films about addiction. Here, gambler Colin Farrell tries to gamble his way out of a deepening hole in Macau. Tilda Swinton seems to have walked in off an entirely different movie.
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Alto Knights - Robert De Niro playing two roles not his best gangster film but not bad , lots of ex Soprano cast members in it. 7/10
 
Speakeasy said:
Train Dreams - Netflix

Beautiful, thoughtful and tender film. One of the best films I've seen this year, with a brilliant performance from Joel Edgerton.

For all that there are seemingly endless troughs of absolute shite that Netflix has commissioned and produced, occasionally they produce something genuinely interesting with some real heft. I'd put this up there with All Quiet on the Western Front, Uncut Gems, Power of The Dog, Marriage Story and Roma as one of the best films they've ever done.

9/10
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Watched this tonight having read your post and thought it was excellent and a great recommendation
 
The Blue Gardenia (1953) - YouTube

Anne Baxter plays a woman who gets dumped by her GI boyfriend, and retaliates by hitting the tiles in the company of professional sleaze Raymond Burr. He tries it on once too often and gets his head brayed in with a poker. She’s so pissed that she can’t remember doing it, but accepts the guilt, and contemplates allying with newspaper columnist Richard Conte, to soft soap the public before her arrest.

A decent film, nicely directed by Fritz Lang. The stars all step up to the plate, and there’s some good cinematography and direction. It’s less potent and weighty than his mid-40s stuff, but Conte is always watchable, and there’s an interesting thread throughout about the positive and negative impacts of the press in crime cases.

7/10
 
Motor City Cobra said:
F1. Apple TV
Pitt

Canny action scenes, Young lad was mis cast for me and thought Pitt done his usual languid style and sleepwalked through it whilst thinking this script is horrific but cars are fun.
All films have cliches but this was took the piss, and juts silly at times man. Surprised anyone at F1 had out to do with it.

Cobra gives it a 4/10 for the racing scenes alone.
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Thought it was genuinely terrible, way worse than the worst F1 film so far, Rush, which has now been relegated to the second shitest F1 film ever.
 
Playdate on Prime. Stupid but entertaining for 90 minutes, could have had some genuinely funny moments but Kevin James does his best to get in the way of them. 6/10
 
House of Dynamite (Netflix). Film about how a nuclear war may start. So much potential and starts off like it going to be good but then reverrs to one of those films where it then shows you the same story so far but from the different characters viewpoints. Some food actors in it but n absolutely dreadful end that makes you wonder why you bothered.

Like writer got to a point and thought, I can't be arsed with this.

4/10....
 
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Motor City Cobra said:
Schlinders list. Sky cinema

Neeson and fiennes

Everyone knows the story, hadn't seen it in about 10/15 years. A young Neeson superb but clearly fiennes performance is top draw, no cliche, no OTT theatrics juts oooozzing evil, his eyes look dead. Superb stuff, not sure who got best supporting actor that year but must have been unreal.

Film for me could be 30 mins shorter but ha way what a film man. Brilliant ending, class touch. A cobra score of 9.5/10
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In one of the more batshit crazy Oscar voting moments, Tommy Lee Jones, for his performance in The Fugitive, won best supporting actor that year. Completely baffling as to how Fiennes didn't win.
 
FlyingLotus said:
I thought it was a wonderful film, one of the best I’ve watched in the last few years. Looking forward to seeing it again.
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I'll second this... become our Xmas Eve movie of choice for the last 2 years. Gonna double bill it with Die Hard on Wednesday.
PhilY said:
I totally agree about ‘One Battle After Another’ - it’s brilliant - but definitely one that deserves another viewing and I bet that I’ll pick up on things that I missed first time around.
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Watched that tonight, wasn't sure about it as it opened up. But once it got going, wow brilliant. Excellent end too... reminded me of none comic version of Burn After Reading weirdly.
 
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hairynaker said:
Do not even attempt The Joker 2, got to be the worst sequel, possibly even the worst film I think I've seen and that's some going.
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Take out the daft song n dance stuff, and it was okay..... sort of.

If you think it's the worst movie you've ever seen, you've had a sheltered life 😉

For starters, I'd make you watch Affleck and Lopez in ' Gigli ' until you begged for mercy.... 😱😖
 
Divines - Netflix

French drama about a teenage girl and her best mate trying to come to terms with deeply dysfunctional and impoverished lives, in brutal poverty in a Parisian HLM.

Really powerful film, if utterly depressing. If you're looking for a heartwarming film full of festive cheer, this absolutely isn't it! Incredible performance from the young, previously unknown teen actor Oulaya Amamra.

8/10

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