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SMB Film Thread 2026


R.E.M. x Buster Keaton (2025) - Omniplex

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Screening of Buster Keaton's 1924 silent classic Sherlock Jr, but with the soundtrack made up of songs taken from REM's Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi albums. I love REM. I love Buster Keaton movies. Basically I was guaranteed to enjoy this!

I hadn't seen this film since my student days, and this was the first time I'd ever actually seen a Buster Keaton movie on the big screen. Great experience, still hugely entertaining performances and ground breaking stunt work and effects, and the fact that it was backed by one of my all time favourite bands was just the icing on the cake.

Loses a couple of points due to the fact the initial short feature before the main event, Keaton's The Ballonatic, was soundtracked by a Brazilian techno composer called Amon Tobin - bloody dreadful music!

8/10


It was produced by a small, independent group from the US called 'Silents Synced'. Their first UK release was Radiohead x Nosferatu. Not really massive Radiohead fan, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway when my The Fire Station puts it on in a couple of months.
 
Watched nobody and nobody 2, disengage brain and watch films, decent enough.

Then watched The Housemaid (2026) really enjoyed this and it was full of twists and turns. Very well acted and the seeming baddie turns out not to be. 8/10
 
Speakeasy said:
R.E.M. x Buster Keaton (2025) - Omniplex

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Screening of Buster Keaton's 1924 silent classic Sherlock Jr, but with the soundtrack made up of songs taken from REM's Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi albums. I love REM. I love Buster Keaton movies. Basically I was guaranteed to enjoy this!

I hadn't seen this film since my student days, and this was the first time I'd ever actually seen a Buster Keaton movie on the big screen. Great experience, still hugely entertaining performances and ground breaking stunt work and effects, and the fact that it was backed by one of my all time favourite bands was just the icing on the cake.

Loses a couple of points due to the fact the initial short feature before the main event, Keaton's The Ballonatic, was soundtracked by a Brazilian techno composer called Amon Tobin - bloody dreadful music!

8/10


It was produced by a small, independent group from the US called 'Silents Synced'. Their first UK release was Radiohead x Nosferatu. Not really massive Radiohead fan, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway when my The Fire Station puts it on in a couple of months.
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A classic example of the old with the new. Like it.
 
Is this thing on.

I really enjoyed this, Will Arnet and Laura Dern are excellent, it feels so authentic and so real. Its not a film about stand up it's a film about break ups.
I've seen that its not made much money, but I imagine it will do very well on streaming, it has that sort of sit at home chill out and watch vibe.
 
A Taste of Honey (1961) 8/10
Kitchen sink realism from Tony Richardson. Brilliant performance from Rita Tushingham.
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Whispering Smith Hits London (1952) 6/10
Low budget film noir from Hammer Films. Being marketed now as a lost classic, but it can't overcome mediocre acting and some massive plot holes.
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La Poison (1951) 9/10
Brilliantly dark French comedy by Sacha Guitry. Michel Simon as a husband who gets a defence lawyer to unwittingly give him tips as to how he can murder his wife and get acquitted. Very meta opening titles, with the director introducing all of the cast and crew personally.
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johnlights said:
It was canny, but pretty pointless. He's a good actor the lad mind.


For a bargain £30 I bet too. Its scandalous, hence I don't bother. However, I do have a burger and chips if I go to the Everyman cinema.
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Meerkat offer so a tenner for two in.

Think the duo deal was £11 for a huge slush (son) n large nachos (me), so not too bad!
 
Rita Tushingham is in The Leather Boys on Encore at the moment. I’ve not seen it yet but gather it was seen as reasonably daring for its time.

Too Late For Tears (1949)

Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are out driving when a random bag full of money gets chucked into their car. She wants to keep it, but he doesn’t. Dan Duryea shows up, claiming it.

The story is pretty simplistic, but the direction of the narrative is compelling. Scott is a calculating, devious bitch, who thinks nothing of murder to further her aims. Considering it’s a 1940s film, I was quite taken aback by how easily she switched to ‘murder mode’ and genuinely didn’t seem to care. I rewatched the first ten minutes afterwards and her expressions when she is being pursued show what type of person she is from the first minute. It’s all there at the start, but you’re unprepared, and a lot of her actions can be excused for other reasons up to a certain point.

Great performance from Liz Scott. She totally hogs the screen, and is one the great femme fatales. DD is as sleazy and sneering as ever, but shows a lot of vulnerability.

A superior B noir.

8/10
 
Monty Pigeon said:
Just been reading up on Safdie's reasoning for 80s music. Initially the film was going to end in the 80s, which would have justified the soundtrack on period grounds. But ultimately he decided that Marty is a man out of time - a 1980s, ambitious, greedy, wannabe Yuppie living in the homely 1950s. In that context it makes a lot more sense.
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It felt like a version of Tom Cruise's character's "hero's journey" in Cocktail except we're all admitting he's an arsehole and doesn't deserve to succeed
 
Dillinger (1945)

Cheap as chips (even down to reusing some footage from another film) effort starring Lawrence Tierney as the notorious gangster.

It’s a cracking B crime film, with Tierney playing the role he excels in. There’s some nicely lit scenes and weather shots, too. 70 minutes of tight bastardry.

7.5/10
 
Doogie Hauser said:
Dillinger (1945)

Cheap as chips (even down to reusing some footage from another film) effort starring Lawrence Tierney as the notorious gangster.

It’s a cracking B crime film, with Tierney playing the role he excels in. There’s some nicely lit scenes and weather shots, too. 70 minutes of tight bastardry.

7.5/10
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IMHO the 1973 version is by far the best, and the best film about the 30s dust bowl criminals
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Warren Oates is fantastic, and Milius just nails the period and mood. Seems a bit Peckinpah influenced

Some great supporting work from Richard Dreyfuss, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Michelle Phillips and Cloris Leachman
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I’ve got this on Bluray and didn’t even realise. I remember now that I got it last year as part of a deal at HMV online.
 
Secret Visage said:
Watched nobody and nobody 2, disengage brain and watch films, decent enough.

Then watched The Housemaid (2026) really enjoyed this and it was full of twists and turns. Very well acted and the seeming baddie turns out not to be. 8/10
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Went with my lady to watch The Housemaid,thoroughly enjoyable and some decent plot twists.
Shelter,Statham being Statham,ex-(SAS/SBS/Para/Marine/Delta/Mossad,etc,etc) generic violence and Statham wins the day 🙂 6.5/10
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