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Posted March 9, 2022 AMERICAN

Roxanne (1987)

CRUMBLIES… Ah, the 1980s. I’m not going to pretend it was the golden age of Hollywood, but it was a time when whole years might go by without a superhero … Continue Reading Roxanne (1987)

Posted November 24, 2018 BRITISH

CRUMBLIES… I’ve tried to be a fan of synchronised swimming over the decades, but it’s kinda sexless, you know? The women who tend to do it are either distressingly kaleidoscopic, … Continue Reading Swimming with Men (2018)

Posted November 23, 2018 AMERICAN

Bereave (2015)

CRUMBLIES… Oh dear. This one’s a big bag of self-absorbed disappointment. Crowd-funded disappointment, at that. A story that stumbles about like a drunk adolescent, bloated with what she picked … Continue Reading Bereave (2015)

Posted November 23, 2018 ACTION

The African Queen (1951)

CRUMBLIES… You know how you think you’ve seen a film, then Wild Willy slaps it on the box one Sunday and you spend the next two hours trying to remember … Continue Reading The African Queen (1951)

Posted October 22, 2018 COMEDY

102 Not Out (2018)

CRUMBLIES… Fun! The Big B as a 102 year man, happy as can be and full of the joys of life, set on hitting 115 and sorting the misery his … Continue Reading 102 Not Out (2018)

Posted October 22, 2018 COMEDY

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)

Posted October 6, 2018 BRITISH

That Good Night (2017)

CRUMBLIES… This one’s about death. Well, dying. Well, grumpy dying in a gorgeous environment with a dream wife, a Mr Death daydream (possibly), a blank-faced on-the-emotional-nose son and a moment … Continue Reading That Good Night (2017)

Posted October 5, 2018 COMEDY

Happy New Year (2014)

CRUMBLIES… I have become that irritating thing: the pupil that suggests a few things to the master. Vibrant Vinay stared at me with an air of disbelief as old Jack … Continue Reading Happy New Year (2014)

Posted October 5, 20181 Comment DRAMA

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)

Posted October 5, 2018 BRITISH

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)

Posted October 5, 20181 Comment BRITISH

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)