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SMB Film Thread 2026


Fletch73 said:
Here it is - another year, another thread.

So what films are people most looking forward to this year?
Has to be Dune: Messiah for me. Others include Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Maggie Gyllenhaal directed The Bride! starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Spielberg's Disclosure Day and Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary. Also the UK releases of Marty Supreme and Hamnet.
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Finally got round to watching the first two dunes this weekend. Really enjoyed them, looking to the 3rd as well.

Watched bone temple, though it was utter chod and somehow even worse than the first in the trilogy.
 
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22nd May for the new Star Wars film cinema release.
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And showing in China which made me very happy. Doubt many Chinese will watch it though as unless they have a VPN or using dodgy Apps they won't have seen the TV series. But I'll be dragging my wife to see it.
 
Avatar: Fire and Ash [2025] 7/10
Surprised by how much I liked this given I found the first 40 minutes confusing because I couldn't remember the previous film.
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Pillion [2025] 7/10
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert [2025] 8/10
Great performances and fly-on-the-wall footage.
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The Long Goodbye (1973) 8/10
Raymond Chandler adaptation minus much of the plot. Doesn't really matter - Robert Altman directing Elliott Gould, both in their 1970s prime.
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Inherit the Wind (1960) 9/10
The first - and best - of three adaptations of a play about the Scopes Monkey Trial. Science v religion in a courtroom in the Deep South: as relevant as ever.
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Phase IV (1974) 7/10
The only film directed by Saul Bass, the legendary graphic designer. Ants are taking over the world. Nigel Davenport and Michael Murphy are trying to stop them. Makes the most of its shoestring budget. Kenya's Rift Valley stands in for Arizona for UK tax reasons.
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The Edge.
Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. I forgot how good it is. 8.5/10 the bear scenes are amazing from Bart the bear.
 
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Nothing whatsoever to do with the Universal Mummy films, this, like the recent Wolf Man film, would have benefitted from a different title altogether which I think would have altered audience expectation.
Not really a Mummy film at all, this reminded me more of the new Evil Dead films (not surprising since Cronin also directed Evil Dead Rise) with quite a bit of the Exorcist chucked in too.
I liked this, it felt like a proper horror film with plenty of "icky" scenes to satisfy gore fans.
7/10
 
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - Channel 4

I'm having to go see the sequel this weekend with my partner, so thought I'd better watch the original so I have some vague idea what's going. It was OK, but not quite sure why it was such a phenomenon at the time, but then I'm not remotely into fashion so I guess that's not too surprising! Streep, Blunt and Tucci were all excellent, but didn't really warm to Ann Hathaway's central character. I actually fell asleep in the last 5 minutes and missed the slight plot 'twist', though that may have had more to do with the fact I'd come off a run of night shifts than anything else!

6.5/10
 
There are loads of rotters on Netflix at the moment

The Killer (Jon Woo, not the other with the same title)
Hypnotic
Apex

All 1/10 at best.
 
What? The Killer is great.

Pistols at dawn, sir.
I didn’t know there was a recent remake. By the same director. But older and clearly unwiser. Duel withdrawn.
 
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