Is Anybody There? (2009 John Crowley)

The 1980s. Young Bill Milner (who turns up later in Dunkirk) hates having to live in an old people's home - and quite rightly. Indeed, his explosions of anger about it all are delightful. (That's probably the wrong word.) He's becoming obsessed with death. Then magician Michael Caine (who never blinks) moves in...

Anne-Marie Duff and David Morrissey are the parents. The inmates are Sylvia Sim, Elizabeth Spriggs (her last film - this is dedicated to her), Leslie Phillips, Rosemary Harris, Peter Vaughan. Linzey Cocker is the assistant and Miles Jupp plays a vicar. (Vaughan died in 2016, aged 93. His last role was in GOT!)

My favourite moment is after Vaughan's had his finger chopped off, his shakes stop. Enjoyable film written by Peter Harness (the new War of the Worlds).

Caine's senility is nicely caught ('Those big plants...' 'Trees.')

DoP Rob Hardy.