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… Here’s a lovely snifter of a story. Two daughters and their mother wait for the death of Gramps. It’s light, properly funny and blissfully short. Too short, in fact; … Continue Reading Three Women Wait for Death (2016)
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, don’t … Continue Reading This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Growing old is a tragedy. Just wander these corridors and you’ll see the agonies of decrepitude. From Shitsome Sid, careening his way out of this life on a sea of … Continue Reading Natsamrat (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, the joy! Another sports film from Aamir Khan, but this time he’s the Dad and has had the decency to pile on a ton of weight for the … Continue Reading Dangal (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Well, this is fun. It’s sub-titles drove everyone out of the TV room – the touch of Swedish also meaning they expected some gruesome murder mystery in 75 parts. … Continue Reading Jag älskar dig / I Love You – A Divorce Comedy (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Now here’s an unexpectedly resonant, borderline poetic film where the oldster is the framework for a youngster finding their courage. The trailer made me think it would be about … Continue Reading The Olive Tree / El Olivo (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Meh, as the young folk say. This could have been great. I’d argue the world needed it to be great, but…meh. Old age insights? We get cheques. Wild Oats … Continue Reading Wild Oats (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack can be a bit slow sometimes. I popped this on the box expecting a story of family fun, Frank Langella as comedy grandpa, Christina Applegate as gorgeous, … Continue Reading Youth in Oregon (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Ahhhh, more calming work from François Cluzet (here as Doctor Werner) and the goodly folk of rural France. Entirely different to the School of Life (made a year later), … Continue Reading Irreplaceable / Médecin de Campagne (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Earnest Ed, still serious about the world and its brutalities in his 98th year, lurched into my room one morning waving the Fences DVD. “We have to watch this!” … Continue Reading Fences (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)
CRUMBLIES…. You know how sometimes you’re in the mood for something sweet but Gallic? Lots of subtitles with the occasional – oddly disappointing – bit of English? A love story … Continue Reading Every Jack Has a Jill // Jusqu’à toi (2016)
CRUMBLIES…. If I’m honest, I’ve never really got Lily Tomlin. From Laugh-In repeats (that telephony girl and a big bundle of weird), to 9-to-5 (um…) to The West Wing (bad … Continue Reading Grandma (2016)
CRUMBLIES…. Ok. So, old Jack was in the mood for a tale of a vengeful woman driving her agency through the crap of the world and the lazy righteousness of … Continue Reading Elle (2016)
MOVIE BLETHER - MOVIE REVIEWS FOR YOUR MIDDLE AND... FINAL YEARS 