
Bee Season (2005)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack is in a grump. I know you lot tolerate a general air of grumpiness – this is me doing funnies – but I’m actually annoyed. Linguistic Lynn, … Continue Reading Bee Season (2005)
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… Old Jack is in a grump. I know you lot tolerate a general air of grumpiness – this is me doing funnies – but I’m actually annoyed. Linguistic Lynn, … Continue Reading Bee Season (2005)
CRUMBLIES… It’s a simple fact that old Jack here is really not qualified to review this film. It looked like the powerful story of a woman recovering from her divorce … Continue Reading Let the Sunshine In (2017)
CRUMBLIES… The whole corridor watched this. It was a warm June morning. The visitors had gone, and just as well. The doors and windows were open, the gardens full down … Continue Reading Summer Hours / L’heure d’été (2008)
CRUMBLIES…Â I’m writing this in 2018 – the year the best TV Dad of all time died: John Mahoney of Frasier. Behind the grumpiness of Martin Crane was an actor … Continue Reading Dan in Real Life (2007)
CRUMBLIES…Â Now, here’s an odd film. It has a brutal message for those marching through their middle years, not least the inevitability of replacement and the unremitting nature of time. … Continue Reading Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)