TagHELEN MIRREN

Posted February 3, 2019 AUSTRALIAN

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)

Posted September 10, 2018 AMERICAN

CRUMBLIES… So. This looks like a history of the Winchester gun family, their travails in the California earthquake of 1906, and Helen Mirren‘s woes as the ageing widow and owner … Continue Reading Winchester (2018)

Posted August 31, 2018 AMERICAN

The Leisure Seeker (2018)

CRUMBLIES… There’s a thing goes through the head of Nurse Stabby-Fingers, I’m sure. Apart from the vindictive quality of her bed-baths, a legend in an A Wing stuffed full of … Continue Reading The Leisure Seeker (2018)

Posted August 29, 20181 Comment AMERICAN

Woman in Gold (2015)

CRUMBLIES… This should have been brilliant! Gah! A true story. A painting of a beautiful aunt, stolen by the Nazis, wending its way to the Belvedere Gallery in Austria, claimed … Continue Reading Woman in Gold (2015)

Posted July 28, 2018 ACTION

RED 2 (2013)

CRUMBLES… More fun! More oldsters giving out the comedy and gunfire! Not quite so tight or sympathetic, what with familiarity, but international plotting and a touch of the Cold War. … Continue Reading RED 2 (2013)

Posted July 12, 2018 ACTION

RED (2010)

CRUMBLIES… Ha! Fun! Sod your earnest demand for telling stories of old age, jump into two hours of comedy, violence and testy young murderers calling Bruce Willis ‘Grandpa’. Oh yes, … Continue Reading RED (2010)

Posted April 1, 20181 Comment BIOGRAPHY

Calendar Girls (2003)

CRUMBLIES… Huzzah for women properly on their way to my age! They support each other, they love each other, they do the right thing by themselves, their friends and their loved … Continue Reading Calendar Girls (2003)