TagREVIEW

Posted August 12, 2018 ACTION

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)

Posted August 12, 2018 ACTION

CRUMBLIES… What you gonna do after a four-movie menopause binge-watch? Mad Maud was swanning about looking vindicated about things she hadn’t been challenged on in the first place. Old Jack … Continue Reading Death Wish (2018)

Posted August 11, 2018 DRAMA

Exit / Hui guang zoumingqu (2014)

CRUMBLIES… An inadvertent addition to the menopause binge-watch, this film looked like a touching tale of burgeoning middle-aged affection in a hospital. Old Jack here and Mad Maud – she’d … Continue Reading Exit / Hui guang zoumingqu (2014)

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 22, 2018 BRITISH

Mama Mia! – Here We Go Again (2018)

CRUMBLIES… I know! We had an outing. Nurse Stabby-Fingers had a rage at us for being miserable a week ago, so we blackmailed her into taking us all to the … Continue Reading Mama Mia! – Here We Go Again (2018)

Posted July 18, 2018 AMERICAN

Falling Leaves (1912)

CRUMBLIES… Having introduced narrative story-telling to film back in 1896, French producer-director-writer and cracking storyteller, Alice Guy-Blaché developed the form through hundreds more shorts. She married, had kids, moved with … Continue Reading Falling Leaves (1912)

Posted June 9, 2018 ACTION

The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_azKRWn7WuA CRUMBLIES… Hot on the heels of the propagandist’s wet dream that was The Young Mr Pitt (1942), and probably desperate for a whiff of mid-war modernity and crazy, Robert Donat‘s … Continue Reading The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

Posted May 19, 20181 Comment AMERICAN

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

CRUMBLIES… Mrs Jack loved this film back in the 1980s. She dragged me along to the cinema. I was resistant to being so close to suckers of death sticks (really: … Continue Reading 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

Posted January 8, 20181 Comment AMERICAN

About Schmidt (2002)

CRUMBLIES… Bloody hell – Jack Nicholson can act. I had no idea! If you want to see him taking a stab at contained, meaningful characterisation in a tragic tale of … Continue Reading About Schmidt (2002)