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… Now here’s a holiday movie. A big, beautiful, operatic in its telling, stuffed full of gorgeous vignettes, with music like a waterfall, and the worst self-righteousness humanity, its religions … Continue Reading Bajirao Mastani (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, but this should have been brilliant. What is the horror of the old? It is our degradation, physical and social. And how can that play out in a … Continue Reading AB Aani BC (2020)
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… Well, this is lovely! And in a shiny upshot of Lockdown, really really new. A film released back in January has hit Amazon Prime with solid subtitles and delicious … Continue Reading Jawaani Jaaneman (2020)
CRUMBLIES… So, here’s the pitch: beautiful woman wakes up in abandoned office and finds she is naked. And has to piece together her memories of the night before, indeed life … Continue Reading Aadai (2019)
CRUMBLIES… Vibrant Vinay knew old Jack here was feeling a bit down. Medical arsery and winter skies are a lousy combination. Young Steve, and even Jacketta and the micro Jacks … Continue Reading Tamasha (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Fun! The Big B as a 102 year man, happy as can be and full of the joys of life, set on hitting 115 and sorting the misery his … Continue Reading 102 Not Out (2018)
CRUMBLIES… Okay. Young Steve suggested this film. He’d taken his other half to see it in the cinema, pleased to have found an English-language film about as far from Bollywood in … Continue Reading Finding Fanny (2014)
CRUMBLIES… I have become that irritating thing: the pupil that suggests a few things to the master. Vibrant Vinay stared at me with an air of disbelief as old Jack … Continue Reading Happy New Year (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Vibrant Vinay took me aside and said, no matter the proximity to her exit from the planet, we owed Sridevi‘s legacy a bit of respect. And he’d found the … Continue Reading Mom (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, this is fun! A big, crazy, melodramatic adventure full of simple baddies and silly heroes, it touches on the legendary, flickers from over-earnest glowering to camp romance to … Continue Reading Bãhubali: The Beginning (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Ouch. Vibrant Vinay, Mad Maud and I watched this on a long afternoon. And we seemed to be watching three wildly different films. Vinay was basking in a touching, … Continue Reading Chennai Express (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Vibrant Vinay hadn’t even seen this one, it’s so new. We sat down to watch it – feet twirling as ever to head off the DVTs – as three … Continue Reading Padmaavat (2018)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack here has noticed a few themes that run through Bollywood movies. They can be clunky plotted, with coincidence and about-turns hidden in the sumptuous photography, use of … Continue Reading Dilwale (2015)
CRUMBLIES… And another winner from Vibrant Vinay! We didn’t even discuss its length, or what it was about. He just looked at me coolly one morning, muttered, “to destroy oneself … Continue Reading Fanaa (2006)
CRUMBLIES… Sumptuous fun. Vibrant Vinay bounded in one morning, zimmer skidding to a halt on the shagpile, filled with glee at his new DVD. Anjali, his chirpy daughter, had bought … Continue Reading Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)
MOVIE BLETHER - MOVIE REVIEWS FOR YOUR MIDDLE AND... FINAL YEARS 