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)
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)
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTfdKKWvNQ 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, … Continue Reading This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
Three Summers (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Old men need to take on the new world, let go of their prejudices, and live in the energies of the present. So there. Now, who fancies a light … Continue Reading Three Summers (2017)
Tully (2018)
CRUMBLIES… Now here’s a fresh angle on the mid-life household: the white-heat days of early parenting. Charlize Theron‘s Marlo and Mark Duplass‘s Craig have made the classic mistake: a third … Continue Reading Tully (2018)
Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
CRUMBLIES… Have you ever been scared to jump into life? Timid, shy, perhaps cowardly, but presenting a cheery smile and a gay demeanour to the world? I have. It took … Continue Reading Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
Bãhubali: The Beginning (2015)
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)
The Karate Kid (1984)
CRUMBLIES… My grandson made me watch this. Young Steve, my son, had made him watch it. And… No. Just…no. This is a relive-the-1980s-like-you’re-still-there movie. About teens. Ugh. Steve had assured … Continue Reading The Karate Kid (1984)
Chennai Express (2013)
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)
Padmaavat (2018)
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)
Dilwale (2015)
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)
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)
Little Big Man (1970)
CRUMBLIES… Back in the days when Dustin Hoffman was a young man, before the tubs got him and the accusations of the last couple of years were on their alleged … Continue Reading Little Big Man (1970)
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