Up (2009)
CRUMBLIES… I know! A film for kids! And, no, I’m not drooling more than last week and I can still count my feet. The grandkids are educating me. Jacketta was … Continue Reading Up (2009)
Quartet (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Okay, this one’s a bit close to home. And, if I’m honest, pissed me off. Not for its qualities, more for what it showed ours not to be. Cos … Continue Reading Quartet (2013)
Waking Ned (1998)
CRUMBLIES… …. YEAH. WENT THERE. At last! The perfect film for this gilded cage of crumblies and early-onsetters. Waking Ned is terrific! Funny, warm, characterful and stuffed with twinkling actors at the … Continue Reading Waking Ned (1998)
My Old Lady (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Back to Paris. This looked like one for the ladies in the home: Mad Maud, Tipsy Tina, Deirdre Dreads all followed me to the TV room for what promised … Continue Reading My Old Lady (2014)
The Magic Box (1951)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack is having a bit of a Robert Donat period. My old Grandpa Gus was a fan and, well, so should you be. An occasional treat in British … Continue Reading The Magic Box (1951)
Mr Morgan’s Last Love (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Now here’s a tale for widowers. A lyrical, funny, gentle film that bored the still-loved, still-seen amongst the newspaper smugerati. For they did not understand the solace of Mr … Continue Reading Mr Morgan’s Last Love (2013)
Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Bloody hell. You know the type of gentle Sunday afternoon when you think, ‘I know, I’ll bung on a cheery Irish film about a middle-aged bloke stuck on a … Continue Reading Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Lease of Life (1954)
CRUMBLIES… Back in the day, old Jack’s Grandpa – a soft sod – waxed lyrical about Robert Donat. He of The 39 Steps (1935), The Citadel (1938) and the incomparably … Continue Reading Lease of Life (1954)
Hampstead (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Shiny Sally came to the home a few weeks ago, taking over Terminal Terry’s bed like sunshine after rain. Oh, but she is bright, slight and utterly free of … Continue Reading Hampstead (2017)
The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Aaaaaahhhh, the headlines were glorious, weren’t they? The biggest heist in British history: shit-tons of moolah, as the young folk say, was nabbed from the deepest, darkest vault in … Continue Reading The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
Venus (2006)
CRUMBLIES… Here’s to the glorious campery of ancient luvvies! We had one in the home for a while. Dear, dear Vicarious Vincent. He wafted as fast as the zimmer would … Continue Reading Venus (2006)
Two Minutes (2011)
CRUMBLIES… You see it all the time in this home. Middle-aged children coming to meet my lot, their elderly parents. Less often, you see the kids in their thirties meeting … Continue Reading Two Minutes (2011)
The Judge (2014)
CRUMBLIES… IBS Ivan often sat opposite at breakfast, looking cool and cruel. He had been a man of achievement, he’d told me, often, and a lot. He had risen from … Continue Reading The Judge (2014)
Why Him? (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Who’d be the father of a daughter? It has profound and lovely rewards, I’m sure. But as soon as a girl reaches her teenage years, her dad naturally has … Continue Reading Why Him? (2016)
It’s Complicated (2009)
CRUMBLIES… Tipsy Tina got to choose the film last Sunday. So more Meryl Streep, it was. And more tormented, middle-aged rich folk laughing strangely through their crazy, mixed-up relationships in … Continue Reading It’s Complicated (2009)
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack was feeling intellectual. The mobile library had trundled through the home with its usual selection of large-print horrors and magazines for the thick so I plumped for … Continue Reading The Sense of an Ending (2017)
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