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… Holy crap. Old Jack here is a man of his word. I said that if Carl Theodor Dreyer pumped out another movie that touched on middle-aged woes and old aged viciousness … Continue Reading Day of Wrath / Vredens Dag (1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_azKRWn7WuA CRUMBLIES… Hot on the heels of the propagandist’s wet dream that was The Young Mr Pitt (1942), and probably desperate for a whiff of mid-war modernity and crazy, Robert Donat‘s … Continue Reading The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
CRUMBIES… Vibrant Vinay picked a mid-winter night, cold and windy, to get us all huddled around the widescreen in the TV room. The ladies were there, promised a youthful Aamir … Continue Reading Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
CRUMBLIES… Mrs Jack loved this film back in the 1980s. She dragged me along to the cinema. I was resistant to being so close to suckers of death sticks (really: … Continue Reading 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
CRUMBLIES… Here’s a thing that gets worse with old age: insomnia. You get creaky, the pain wakes you. You get fat, over-heating gets you. You hear a noise in the … Continue Reading Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (1991)
CRUMBLIES… No. No no no no no no no. I only sat through the whole of this because there’s a Streep child in it, Richard Dreyfuss is Richard Dreyfuss and … Continue Reading The Lightkeepers (2009)
CRUMBLIES… Mad Maud has a thing about James Garner. It’s an obsession that sits nicely alongside all her other ones, gets us doused in weekly bouts of The Rockford Files … Continue Reading The Notebook (2004)
CRUMBLIES… Friendship, eh? If there’s a thing that makes life tolerable, it is the company of others. And by company I mean tightly managed video-calls with children, grandchildren and – … Continue Reading Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
CRUMBLIES… Imagine. A cottage on the coast line of Cornwall. The 1930s. A couple of sisters. A boy. A story of unrequited love and some fiddling. That, ladies and ladies, … Continue Reading Ladies in Lavender (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNvb9X9QafA CRUMBLIES… Okay, so I hit upon this ancient short while scrolling through one of those out-of-copyright film apps on the home’s AppleTV. Classix or Classic Films or somesuch. There … Continue Reading Enoch Arden (1911)
CRUMBLIES… Earnest Ed, still serious about the world and its brutalities in his 98th year, lurched into my room one morning waving the Fences DVD. “We have to watch this!” … Continue Reading Fences (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack is having a bit of a Robert Donat period. My old Grandpa Gus was a fan and, well, so should you be. An occasional treat in British … Continue Reading The Magic Box (1951)
CRUMBLIES… Macular Mike wanted to watch something on the new widescreen. I had the remote and was still riffing on The School of Life (2017) when a brainwave hit. What … Continue Reading Secondhand Lions (2003)
CRUMBLIES… Wow – this is a beautiful film. Lyrical in its photography, gentle in its music and comic and sad and lovely in its story. Old Jack loved it. It’s … Continue Reading L’école buisonnière / School of Life (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Working back through John Wayne’s oeuvre is a wonderful way for a man alone to spend his Sundays. There was an outing to a Flower Show, so all the … Continue Reading The Cowboys (1972)
CRUMBLIES… “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from … Continue Reading The Shootist (1976)
MOVIE BLETHER - MOVIE REVIEWS FOR YOUR MIDDLE AND... FINAL YEARS 