Edie (2017)
CRUMBLIES… Mad Maud had found the perfect movie at the cinema. She’d ranged back through the streets, jumping onto bins and gazing meaningfully into the distance, buoyed by the film … Continue Reading Edie (2017)
Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
CRUMBLIES… Have you ever been scared to jump into life? Timid, shy, perhaps cowardly, but presenting a cheery smile and a gay demeanour to the world? I have. It took … Continue Reading Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
Bãhubali: The Beginning (2015)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, this is fun! A big, crazy, melodramatic adventure full of simple baddies and silly heroes, it touches on the legendary, flickers from over-earnest glowering to camp romance to … Continue Reading Bãhubali: The Beginning (2015)
Winchester (2018)
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)
Once More / The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
CRUMBLIES… You know how sometimes you watch a feel-good film the hour after a particularly huge meal and have to put no small effort into keeping down your own vomit? … Continue Reading Once More / The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
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)
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)
Pierrette’s Escapades / Le départ d’Arlequin et de Pierrette (1900)
CRUMBLIES… Okay, I sat through these two minutes of obscure pantomimic pantomiming, so you do too. Silent Steve dared me to eat a cupcake quicker than Pierrette’s Escapades, plainly expecting … Continue Reading Pierrette’s Escapades / Le départ d’Arlequin et de Pierrette (1900)
The Butler (2013)
CRUMBLIES… So, it turns out you can be stuffed full of good, fun performances, describe a man’s life, and still be so worthy it chokes the meaning out of your … Continue Reading The Butler (2013)
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Robin Williams. Always funny, sometimes brilliant, sometimes inaccessible, every so often utterly telling, every so more often utterly mawkish. Here, middle-aged, stressed, scowly and stuffed full of grumpy old … Continue Reading The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
The Karate Kid (1984)
CRUMBLIES… My grandson made me watch this. Young Steve, my son, had made him watch it. And… No. Just…no. This is a relive-the-1980s-like-you’re-still-there movie. About teens. Ugh. Steve had assured … Continue Reading The Karate Kid (1984)
All is Lost (2013)
CRUMBLIES… I can be a bit snarky about Robert Redford. It’s a long-term reaction to old Mrs Jack’s adoration of his beauty back in the day. That said, I’m an … Continue Reading All is Lost (2013)
Chennai Express (2013)
CRUMBLIES… Ouch. Vibrant Vinay, Mad Maud and I watched this on a long afternoon. And we seemed to be watching three wildly different films. Vinay was basking in a touching, … Continue Reading Chennai Express (2013)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
CRUMBLIES… Silent Steve was on fire! He suggested a film about an old grump, a faux doctor showing off a somnambulist at a town fayre, evil, cold-hearted and full of … Continue Reading The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
Like Father (2018)
CRUMBLIES… Sometimes the TV room offers up something so gentle, good-natured, surprise-free and a bit meh that you can’t help but get swept along by it. Nothing unexpected, every comedy … Continue Reading Like Father (2018)
Padmaavat (2018)
CRUMBLIES… Vibrant Vinay hadn’t even seen this one, it’s so new. We sat down to watch it – feet twirling as ever to head off the DVTs – as three … Continue Reading Padmaavat (2018)
