MOVIE BLETHER – MOVIE REVIEWS FOR YOUR MIDDLE AND… FINAL YEARS
Movies for your Care Home or middle-aged living room. Because by old we mean 85 and by middle-aged we mean 55. Sigh.
CRUMBLIES… Oh! What fun! Old Jack comes to you a stunned man who has had his soul refreshed… For two hours in the unexpectedly sparkly company of Judi Dench (sparkly … Continue Reading Esio Trot / Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Okay, this one is set in an old people’s home. Oh yes. It’s the ‘too close for comfort territory’ of staring into the miseries of this place, only in … Continue Reading Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War (2002)
CRUMBLIES… Take 2 with Grubby Gert and her Christopher Plummer obsession. This time a thriller-drama-thing and – oh yes – another Plummer-in-the-bath scene. There’s no sappy love story, however, so … Continue Reading Remember (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Grubby Gert is a bit of a Christopher Plummer fan. In the small hours of the morning, you can sometimes hear Edelweiss echoing down the corridor from her room. … Continue Reading Elsa & Fred (2012)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, the relief. After weeks of watching miserable old treatises on decrepitude, old Jack hit upon this gem. Objectively, a load of old tosh, emotionally, just what the older … Continue Reading Stand Up Guys (2012)
CRUMBLIES… Meh, as the young folk say. This could have been great. I’d argue the world needed it to be great, but…meh. Old age insights? We get cheques. Wild Oats … Continue Reading Wild Oats (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Bloody hell, this is depressing. It also plays tricks with your head, should you make the mistake of getting a bit antsy and Google the story of the film … Continue Reading The Last Laugh / Der Letzte Mann (1924)
CRUMBLIES… Oh yes. Silent Steve makes old Jack discover the silents again. No – stay! This is rather fun. A 1908 tale of a man, abandoned for being a dick … Continue Reading Troubles of a Grass Widower / Vive la Vie de Garçon (1908)
CRUMBLIES… Okay, I’ve dodged this film since 1981. It looked cloying and ghastly then; it proved worse when Jacketta pitched up and decided we should have some Dad-Daughter time. My, … Continue Reading On Golden Pond (1981)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack here has to be careful with the films sometimes. Anything too close to home can trigger panic attacks and shrieking in my ageing colleagues in Doom’s Antechamber. … Continue Reading Is Anybody There? (2008)
CRUMBLIES… This is an unexpected, rather splendid film. And it sticks with being unexpected, the plot twisting in directions that old Jack didn’t see coming. Nothing crass or illogical, mind, … Continue Reading Robot & Frank (2012)
CRUMBLIES… I really wanted to like The Lady in the Van. It starts with the sounds of a car crash underneath a black screen…sound effects to give impetus to the … Continue Reading The Lady in the Van (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Any film that has Cedric Hardwicke as a glowering, stern and nattily-dressed agent of death is a thing to behold. When he’s cheerily wrecking a family, taking adult children, … Continue Reading On Borrowed Time (1939)
CRUMBLIES… I know, I know, 1901, but it only lasts 9 minutes, so try watching Barbe-bleue – a cinematic silent of a four hundred year-old fairy-tale-nasty. The hero? Bluebeard, a man … Continue Reading Barbe-bleue / Bluebeard (1901)
CRUMBLIES… Huzzah for women properly on their way to my age! They support each other, they love each other, they do the right thing by themselves, their friends and their loved … Continue Reading Calendar Girls (2003)
CRUMBLIES… There are some things a parent should never have to do. Look under their beds, listen to their music or bury them – that’s my top three. And I’ve … Continue Reading The Way (2010)
MOVIE BLETHER - MOVIE REVIEWS FOR YOUR MIDDLE AND... FINAL YEARS 