Last Christmas (2019)
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)
Legally Blonde (2001)
CRUMBLIES… One of the grandkids brought this in for me. Energy-Em, as old Jack likes to think of her, is into her twenties and still a fizzing, popping bowl of … Continue Reading Legally Blonde (2001)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
CRUMBLIES… Wow. Suddenly the romantic comedy of the 1980s got to be thirty years old. Which means the wife and I were…let’s go with mid to late fifties when it … Continue Reading When Harry Met Sally (1989)
I Flunked, But… (1930)
CRUMBLIES… Well, now, here’s a thing. Old Jack was hunting down a few more Yasujirō Ozu films, hoping for old age insights akin to Early Summer / Bakushû (1951), when a … Continue Reading I Flunked, But… (1930)
No Good for Anything / The Man Who Never Made Good (1908)
CRUMBLIES… A brief one this: eight and a bit minutes of pre-war comedy from a world twisting itself out of shape through treaties, empires and dreadful ambitions. Yet, back on … Continue Reading No Good for Anything / The Man Who Never Made Good (1908)
Captain Boycott (1947)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack has a weakness for those British movies of the the mid twentieth Century. Still in black and white, telling stories with warm caricature and earnestness, and before … Continue Reading Captain Boycott (1947)
Jawaani Jaaneman (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)
Aadai (2019)
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)
Scottish Mussel (2015)
Ok. Look. There are some things an old old man like Jack here shouldn’t see. They disrupt the blood pressure by coming at you with challengingly feel-good stories, properly weird … Continue Reading Scottish Mussel (2015)
Under the Skin (2013)
CRUMBLIES… This may be terrific. Or it may be terrible. It’s certainly a touch pretentious, but, by gum, it’s a brave thing with brave performances. Not least because it has … Continue Reading Under the Skin (2013)
Goodbye Gemini (1970)
CRUMBLIES… A film can be too damned weird. Slightly earlier than Brannigan (1975) in Judy Geeson‘s charming of my generation of chaps, there came a film that gouged an unpleasant, … Continue Reading Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Red Sparrow (2018)
CRUMBLIES… So, there we were on a Saturday evening, searching the schedules for group-friendly viewing, when Bleak Bazza, finally justified in his miserable nature by turning 90, admitted to having … Continue Reading Red Sparrow (2018)
Age of Consent (1969)
Hmmm. Okay. Ladies – if I were to tell you this is a film set in…possibly Australia, given the accents – starring James Mason in his grizzled old age as … Continue Reading Age of Consent (1969)
Finding Fanny (2014)
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)
Early Summer / Bakushû (1951)
CRUMBLIES… And on to number two in what turns out to be director Yasujirō Ozu‘s Noriko trilogy: three films starring japan’s Eternal Virgin (nope, still not flattering), Setsuko Hara as a different Noriko. … Continue Reading Early Summer / Bakushû (1951)
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)
