Category Archives: film review

Film Review: The Bourne Legacy (or “Redemption versus escape.”)

Posted on November 26, 2013 by dwighttowers

If I am going to watch a very long car chase, then I need to care who “wins.” And in this wretched film, I didn’t. I didn’t care during the drone attack, the wolf attack the this attack and the … Continue reading →

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Awesome review of terrible (apparently) film!

Posted on June 6, 2013 by dwighttowers

Laugh out loud funny… He’s done it again. M Night Shyamalan has done it again. Again. Done it. Again. He has given us another film for which the only appropriate expression is stammering, gibbering wonder that anyone can keep making … Continue reading →

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Pentagon censoring Hollywood – Lassie in the dog house…

Posted on May 10, 2013 by dwighttowers

From here. “In the 1961 Lassie episode “Timmy and the Martians,” Lassie howls to alert Timmy of a plane crash. In the original episode, once the military has re-assembled the plane they discover that a faulty wing had caused a … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Pining for a Place beyond the under-cooked myths

Posted on April 14, 2013 by dwighttowers

Mrs Towers should choose the films. She whittled it down to three, and gave me final say (she likes to let me think I am in charge, it’s one of those games people play). And I chose “The Place Beyond … Continue reading →

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Gerontocratic military-entertainment complex

Posted on February 4, 2013 by dwighttowers

If you’d told me in 1987 that 26 years later the action stars being advertised on the sides of buses would be Bruce Willis (Die Hard 5) , Sylvester Stallone (Bullet in the Head), Tom Cruise (Jack Reacharound), and Arnold … Continue reading →

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Fallen idle or Fallen Idol?

Posted on January 21, 2013 by dwighttowers

The difference between activity and productivity haunts me. Often I plough through absurd amounts of work, only to find… well, it’s like that nightmarish scene towards the end of Toy Story 3 where the toys are climbing as fast as … Continue reading →

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Film Reviews: Skyfall, The Third Man and Zoolander (Here be spoilers!!)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by dwighttowers

Skyfall SPOILER ALERT Well, is it just me, or has the patriarchy re-asserted itself a bit? Female M is now dead by the “son” she betrayed. Moneypenny, who was handy with a gun, safely back behind a desk and Ralph … Continue reading →

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Film Reviews: “Bumble in the Jungle” – Tropic Thunder and Predator

Posted on December 3, 2012 by dwighttowers

So on Saturday night I watched a film where a whole bunch of Hollywood actors pranced about in the greenery, indulging in high camp and low comedy. But enough about “Predator” – wasn’t Tropic Thunder a revelation!!! How on earth … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Until the End of the World

Posted on August 29, 2012 by dwighttowers

Avoid this dreadful film. I saw it in San Francisco in February 1992*. I didn’t like it then. I thought it was muddled, pretentious, portentous and at least forty minutes too long (151 minutes? Really?)  UPDATE: HOLY FUCKING SHIT- there … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Sourcecode

Posted on July 2, 2012 by dwighttowers

Quick review, that I won’t repeat 8 times over (reference to film). This must have been “pitched” as “It’s Groundhog Day meets the Bourne Identity!” Jake Gyllenhaal wakes up on a train. He doesn’t know why. Last he remembers he … Continue reading →

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