What could be better to mark my thirtieth big screen viewing of my favourite film than taking my son to his first Lord of the Rings triple-bill? As a bonus - BFI IMAX with an introduction by Howard Shore.
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The Hostage Tower 1980
A newly-discovered origin story for the #BrosFest founding character Michael 'Mike' Graham, played so perfectly (in both completely different characterisations) in Death Train and Night Watch but played here by a sleepwalking Peter Fonda whose role had nearly no impact on the plot. A couple of actors are having fun - especially Celia Johnson - but the film sets up the premise of "What if someone took the Eiffel Tower hostage and armed it with lasers and threatened to blow…
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Urge 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film is fucking terrible and the characters are fucking terrible and the acting is fucking terrible and the script is fucking terrible and then the penultimate scene reveals that Brosnan is literally God who is trying to cleanse the Earth of humanity before they turn it into CGI fire by selling them designer drugs, a twist that has had zero foreshadowing at all and you wonder if the film should be rated as five stars and then the two remaining characters are on a ferry and it ends and it's confusing. But, alas, overall fucking terrible.
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Nowhere Special 2020
As a 30-something father of two - both boys, one of whom a similar age to the son in this and the other who has the same name as the son - and someone who lost his father (though at 13 rather than 4) I knew exactly what I was putting myself through when I went to watch this. It seems perfectly designed to devastate me in the areas I feel the most sensitive, constantly hitting on my worst nightmares…
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