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… Some actors represent the ruffty-tuffty men of the world. Some even avoid the hideous men-being-men schtick the Americans love (Chicago Fire, The Shield… I’m looking at you). They walk … Continue Reading The Ice Road (2021)
CRUMBLIES… Film 5 in the M.C.U. Oh yes. Bloody loved this one. Well, sort of. Old Jack has been pushed to watch it three times and, I’ll be honest, it … Continue Reading Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
CRUMBLIES… There’s a thing old Jack wonders occasionally. When an experienced actor picks up a pen, finds the funding, agrees to direct, and jumps into the sunshine to make a … Continue Reading Made in Italy (2020)
CRUMBLIES… Film 4 in the M.C.U.. I know. Old Jack here is on a roll. Lockdown tedium had reached new heights: Nurse Stabby Fingers offered me a shoulder massage ahead … Continue Reading Thor (2011)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack here actively need to watch this film. I’d just got through The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Made in Italy (more on that later…may be a while to summon … Continue Reading Iron Man 2 (2010)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, I don’t know. I was up for a marathon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (gonna get bored of saying that: M.C.U. hereafter), enjoyed Iron Man (2008), then bumped … Continue Reading The Incredible Hulk (2008)
CRUMBLIES… So, the start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the MCU, kids) popped up on Steve’s list of things to watch before the surgeons have plugged my remaining orifices. Not … Continue Reading Iron Man (2008)
CRUMBLIES… Being a kid in the Second World War was a real thing, you know. My mate Stan lived under occupation. He was ten when the Nazis pitched up and … Continue Reading Summerland (2020)
CRUMBLIES… Back in the heady days of the 1990s, Stephen Fry tossed quality words into the world and made the Wodehouse-literate chuckle by filling the much-lacking country house-sex-and-gags gap with … Continue Reading The Hippopotamus (2017)
Ok. So. Been a while. Sorry about that. Was forced into seven types of lockdown tier, a big one, back to a small one, got secreted in the back of … Continue Reading Last Christmas (2019)
CRUMBLIES… Object lesson for the selfish and the old, alert. A gift from Amazon Prime given The Great Lockdown of 2020, this film should really be caught in the cinema … Continue Reading Gulabo Sitabo (2020)
CRUMBLIES… Long shot, this one. Old Jack here saw some white hair float by on the YouTube and thought, in memory of Silent Steve, let’s give it a go. And … Continue Reading Discontent (1916)
CRUMBLIES… My Pa and I used to watch the occasional war movie. A few too many memories made them exhausting experiences – however stiff the upper lip or brutal the … Continue Reading Greyhound (2020)
CRUMBLIES… Here’s a lovely snifter of a story. Two daughters and their mother wait for the death of Gramps. It’s light, properly funny and blissfully short. Too short, in fact; … Continue Reading Three Women Wait for Death (2016)
CRUMBLIES…… Ok, so here’s a star in COVID’s heaven: modern, fresh and gorgeous. And also not a film. But, what the hey, it’s a filmed musical theatre show, close up … Continue Reading Hamilton (2020)
CRUMBLIES… There’s something about Victorian moralising that grates the soul; not least because that vilifying crap has come back. Old Jack here was pretty much on Lockdown before the rest … Continue Reading Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)
