Le Week-end (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Mad Maud decided we should all watch this. They were cleaning the carpets so we were all stuck in the TV room, the only escape being into the moonlit … Continue Reading Le Week-end (2013)
Hector (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Here’s one to put the fear of God in the crumblies at the home. What happens when the money runs out? Yeah, yeah, you might have a ghastly life … Continue Reading Hector (2015)
Sunshine on Leith (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Yup – The Proclaimers film. Based on a stage play-musical of the same name, this tells the story of a family and its hangers on. And it is wonderful. … Continue Reading Sunshine on Leith (2013)
A Wonderful Christmas Time (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Two weeks into a ghastly cold and Old Jack is little more than a puffy bag of phlegm and stroke-risk coughing. I have enjoyed the disease travelling from my … Continue Reading A Wonderful Christmas Time (2014)
How About You… (2007)
CRUMBLIES…. Well, here’s one for the ancients trapped in old people’s homes with everyone they hated at primary school. Old Jack – despite the thing being a tad too close … Continue Reading How About You… (2007)
Daphne (2017)
CRUMBLIES…. Okay. So – Daphne – this one’s on iTunes and a cracking film for the urban miserablists amongst you… It’s not really one to illuminate middle age, rather one … Continue Reading Daphne (2017)
Safe House (ITV 2015)
CRUMBLIES…. Whilst wandering Netflix (UK!), as I’m sure you do, I was starting to panic. What to choose? But I couldn’t choose. But I had to choose. Ooh – naked … Continue Reading Safe House (ITV 2015)
Broadchurch (ITV 2013-17)
CRUMBLIES…. Series 1… Series 2… Series 3… My search for a programme in which Jodie Whittaker smiles continued this week. Thought I’d try Broadchurch. My search goes on. I watched … Continue Reading Broadchurch (ITV 2013-17)
Trust Me (BBC1 Aug 2017)
Well, Trust Me is over now – and what a rarefied kind of fun! A modern piece of TV where the writer (Dan Sefton) gave himself the task of shaping a realistic drama from the headlines…
