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SMB Film Thread 2026


Big Jeff said:
I can’t see me going to the pictures ever again.

I’ll just wait till it’s on Netflix, prime or whatever.

I like to concentrate on a film and be absorbed by it.

I don’t want sit in front of Fat Barbara and her mate who noisily eat things and talk about their cystitis.

People seem to be incapable of shutting their fat ugly faces for Two hours
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You may be overthinking things a bit.
 
The Hoodlum (1951)

Lawrence Tierney is out on parole and working for his brother. He had no interest at all in settling down into a steady life, and eyes a bank job.

These ‘crime doesn’t pay’ hoodlum flicks were very common back then, but the familiarity didn’t dull my enjoyment of this. Tierney’s character is relentlessly unpleasant, with zero redeeming features. He’s a total shit, abusing his family, taking advantage of people, and utterly remorseless when he causes suffering.

Brief, tight and fascinating, I really liked it. Tierney is excellent.

7/10
 
Send help - omniplex. Ridiculous in almost every way possible, cast away horror comedy, though enjoyable - the boar scene is a highlight - despite all of the familiar tropes. 6.77/10
 
The Housemaid (2025) - 6.5/10 - Decent enough physiological thriller about a young woman who takes up the position of a live in maid at a wealthy family's house. Things turn quickly weird as the mothers behaviour becomes more and more erratic. Lots of twists and turns in this but it never quite reaches anything special.
 
Watched first half of Hamnet last night.

I like slow moving films and this is slow moving, gets better as it goes along.

It's not quite hitting the spot though. Jessie Buckley is fantastic and cinematography beautiful but it's a bit meh apart from that.

First half rating: 7/10
 
The Smashing Machine, half way thru, enjoying it. Film about the life of MMA fighter Mark Kerr, played by Dwayne Johnson. He looks so different it doesn’t even look like him.
 
Amokachi said:
Watched first half of Hamnet last night.

I like slow moving films and this is slow moving, gets better as it goes along.

It's not quite hitting the spot though. Jessie Buckley is fantastic and cinematography beautiful but it's a bit meh apart from that.

First half rating: 7/10
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I found the first half a bit slow and dull. The final act saves the film from mediocrity. A really beautiful ending.
 
Mephisto (1981) 8/10
An actor known for his performance in Faust makes a Faustian pact with the Nazis in WWII Berlin. Klaus Maria Brandauer is great in the lead role.
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Hamnet (2025) 7/10
Doesn't live up to the hype. Decent enough period drama, though I've never been a big fan of Jessie Buckley - I thought she was awful in Fargo - and here, as one reviewer put it, she does RADA ham acting that can be seen from Space.
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The Housemaid (2025) 7/10
Psychological thriller with a feminist edge that'll probably do the heads in of all the MAGA chuds who thought Sydney Sweeney was on their side. The twist isn't much of a surprise, but reasonably entertaining.
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Monty Pigeon said:
Hamnet (2025) 7/10
Doesn't live up to the hype. Decent enough period drama, though I've never been a big fan of Jessie Buckley - I thought she was awful in Fargo - and here, as one reviewer put it, she does RADA ham acting that can be seen from Space.
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My problem with Hamnet is this. Either it's a blatant piece of Oscar bait that uses the death of a child to manipulate the audience with basically grief porn, in which case I don't want to watch it. Or, it's a genuinely heartfelt portrait of the devastating effect on parents of the loss of their beloved child to a terrible disease, in which case I can't bear to watch it
 
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