Stan & Ollie (2019)
Okay, it’s been a while. Apologies. Prostate and arse problems. You don’t want to know; I don’t really want to share. But, for the record, I love the NHS and … Continue Reading Stan & Ollie (2019)
Swimming with Men (2018)
CRUMBLIES… I’ve tried to be a fan of synchronised swimming over the decades, but it’s kinda sexless, you know? The women who tend to do it are either distressingly kaleidoscopic, … Continue Reading Swimming with Men (2018)
The African Queen (1951)
CRUMBLIES… You know how you think you’ve seen a film, then Wild Willy slaps it on the box one Sunday and you spend the next two hours trying to remember … Continue Reading The African Queen (1951)
That Good Night (2017)
CRUMBLIES… This one’s about death. Well, dying. Well, grumpy dying in a gorgeous environment with a dream wife, a Mr Death daydream (possibly), a blank-faced on-the-emotional-nose son and a moment … Continue Reading That Good Night (2017)
You, Me and Him (2017)
CRUMBLIES… We’d all heard Chesty Charlie cough up his last one Sunday morning. It wasn’t pretty. He’d been going all night, each hack, rasp and wheeze sending signals down E … Continue Reading You, Me and Him (2017)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
CRUMBLIES… (…so nearly a on grounds of taste in the plotting…) Okay. After the tension of Another Mother’s Son (2017), we all sat down to try out the next film in the Channel-Islands-at-War … Continue Reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Another Mother’s Son (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Okay, this one’s a bit tough to write. This is the story of a mother on wartime, German-occupied Jersey. It is a rather more fateful, less filmic companion to … Continue Reading Another Mother’s Son (2017)
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Some films try too hard. They may be inventive, fun, flighty and kind of clever, even charming in their forced eccentricity, but it is forced nonetheless. Not cynical, don’t … Continue Reading This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
Edie (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Mad Maud had found the perfect movie at the cinema. She’d ranged back through the streets, jumping onto bins and gazing meaningfully into the distance, buoyed by the film … Continue Reading Edie (2017)
Woman in Gold (2015)
CRUMBLIES… This should have been brilliant! Gah! A true story. A painting of a beautiful aunt, stolen by the Nazis, wending its way to the Belvedere Gallery in Austria, claimed … Continue Reading Woman in Gold (2015)
The Whisperers (1967)
CRUMBLIES… Well, bloody hell, here’s a film an old bugger shouldn’t watch alone. Old Jack here did and…wow, is it on the nose with the old-age-is-dreadful schtick. It stars Dame … Continue Reading The Whisperers (1967)
The Winslow Boy (1948)
CRUMBLIES… This movie is glorious. Better than that – sublime. This is Robert Donat at his most brilliant, combining the cool with the sympathetic. It is the story of the … Continue Reading The Winslow Boy (1948)
Walter Finds a Father (1921)
CRUMBLIES… Silent Steve went rare and British when I asked for some ancient films about fatherhood. He pulled up a comedy short from 1921 that tells the classic (perhaps I … Continue Reading Walter Finds a Father (1921)
Mama Mia! – Here We Go Again (2018)
CRUMBLIES… I know! We had an outing. Nurse Stabby-Fingers had a rage at us for being miserable a week ago, so we blackmailed her into taking us all to the … Continue Reading Mama Mia! – Here We Go Again (2018)
Finding your Feet (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Hmmm. Okay, this one is aimed at us with a true and steady hand. Calculating, one might say. For Imelda Staunton and the staff of Hogwarts are old folk, … Continue Reading Finding your Feet (2017)
My House in Umbria (2003)
CRUMBLIES… So – the great Ronnie Barker, he of wit, pith, innuendo and Norman Stanley Fletcher. Maggie Smith. Timothy Spall. Gorgeously-gorgeous Italian countryside and a tale that starts with terrorism … Continue Reading My House in Umbria (2003)
