Broken Flowers (2005)
CRUMBLIES… Tipsy Tina was being dried out one idle weekend in the home. Well, I assume she was, because an all-new clarity of thought was bubbling out of her with … Continue Reading Broken Flowers (2005)
Family Business (1989)
CRUMBLIES… Now this is more like it! A story of three glorious generations of a criminal – or about to be criminal – family with Sean Connery as the devilishly … Continue Reading Family Business (1989)
Three Evenings / Yerek Yereko (2010)
CRUMBLIES… Young Steve found a middle-aged nightmare on Amazon Video. And it is shuddersome. Women – imagine your significant other has turned into a drunk, gotten in with another woman … Continue Reading Three Evenings / Yerek Yereko (2010)
Space Cowboys (2000)
CRUMBLIES… Here are two entirely different films stapled together by Clint Eastwood to thrill gentlemen of slow minds and great age. Space Cowboys begins in the blue-tinted past with weirdly … Continue Reading Space Cowboys (2000)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
CRUMBLIES… Time is cruel. Implacable. A great, slow, heartless beast that destroys us all. Picture it as an eclipse, shutting out our own, small suns, with the implacabilitiy of a … Continue Reading No Country for Old Men (2007)
Irreplaceable / Médecin de Campagne (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Ahhhh, more calming work from François Cluzet (here as Doctor Werner) and the goodly folk of rural France. Entirely different to the School of Life (made a year later), … Continue Reading Irreplaceable / Médecin de Campagne (2016)
Is That You? (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Regret. Always best to avoid it. For instance, old Jack here got trapped in the care home lift with Mad Maud for an afternoon the other week. And she’s … Continue Reading Is That You? (2014)
The Citadel (1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn_BpBe8-XE CRUMBLIES… The Donat-watch goes on! So to his 9th film, and just one away from the great old school-master… The Citadel is a fantastic tale from A.J. Cronin – … Continue Reading The Citadel (1938)
Everybody’s Fine (2009)
CRUMBLIES… Here’s a film that could’ve been, should’ve been brilliant. Imagine the meeting: let’s do a watered down About Schmidt, with a watered down de Niro, trying to connect with … Continue Reading Everybody’s Fine (2009)
Fences (2016)
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)
My Old Lady (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Back to Paris. This looked like one for the ladies in the home: Mad Maud, Tipsy Tina, Deirdre Dreads all followed me to the TV room for what promised … Continue Reading My Old Lady (2014)
Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Bloody hell. You know the type of gentle Sunday afternoon when you think, ‘I know, I’ll bung on a cheery Irish film about a middle-aged bloke stuck on a … Continue Reading Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Lease of Life (1954)
CRUMBLIES… Back in the day, old Jack’s Grandpa – a soft sod – waxed lyrical about Robert Donat. He of The 39 Steps (1935), The Citadel (1938) and the incomparably … Continue Reading Lease of Life (1954)
Hampstead (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Shiny Sally came to the home a few weeks ago, taking over Terminal Terry’s bed like sunshine after rain. Oh, but she is bright, slight and utterly free of … Continue Reading Hampstead (2017)
The Judge (2014)
CRUMBLIES… IBS Ivan often sat opposite at breakfast, looking cool and cruel. He had been a man of achievement, he’d told me, often, and a lot. He had risen from … Continue Reading The Judge (2014)
Why Him? (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Who’d be the father of a daughter? It has profound and lovely rewards, I’m sure. But as soon as a girl reaches her teenage years, her dad naturally has … Continue Reading Why Him? (2016)
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