Three films about…growing older disgracefully: Going in Style (2017), The Sense of an Ending (2017) and T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Why am I writing about these movies now?

Well, I’m moving my back catalogue of movie (and occasionally TV) reviews from another site to Medium — covering many of the best-known releases of the last decade, as well as more obscure fare. To make it a bit more fun, I’ll be grouping them thematically (as here), but unless I spot actual errors I’m not doing any editing…so my opinion may have changed since I first wrote them!

My reviews of new cinema, streaming and disc releases, as well as retrospectives on old (and not-so-old) classics, will mostly continue to appear on the Medium publication Frame Rated.

Anyway, here goes. Enjoy…

Going in Style

Going in Style is an agreeable film about three agreeable gents who only want to lead agreeable lives, but have to rob a bank to fund their modest aspiration. This they achieve in a fashion as agreeable as armed robbery ever can be.

I’m not sure if this Michael Caine/Morgan Freeman/Alan Arkin vehicle was inspired by the Saga-and-bus-pass aspects of the Hatton Garden case (itself now a movie, The Hatton Garden Job); it is also a remake of a largely forgotten 1979 film…