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Posted April 19, 2019 BRITISH

Goodbye Gemini (1970)

CRUMBLIES… A film can be too damned weird. Slightly earlier than Brannigan (1975) in Judy Geeson‘s charming of my generation of chaps, there came a film that gouged an unpleasant, … Continue Reading Goodbye Gemini (1970)

Posted September 10, 2018 AMERICAN

Winchester (2018)

CRUMBLIES… So. This looks like a history of the Winchester gun family, their travails in the California earthquake of 1906, and Helen Mirren‘s woes as the ageing widow and owner … Continue Reading Winchester (2018)

Posted August 18, 20181 Comment CRIME

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

CRUMBLIES… Silent Steve was on fire! He suggested a film about an old grump, a faux doctor showing off a somnambulist at a town fayre, evil, cold-hearted and full of … Continue Reading The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

Posted June 23, 2018 DRAMA

Ménilmontant (1926)

CRUMBLIES… Okay, I thought Silent Steve had gone mad. One cold, dull Sunday, when sugar was low and my nerves were on edge, he suggested the tragic tale of a … Continue Reading Ménilmontant (1926)

Posted May 7, 2018 AMERICAN

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

CRUMBLIES… Bloody hell. Mad Maud put this one on and practically worshipped at its feet. I’d never seen it – and had studiously avoided the careers of both star over … Continue Reading Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

Posted April 3, 2018 DRAMA

Barbe-bleue / Bluebeard (1901)

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)