Uncertain Age

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye get real, watching the 2018 documentary Lives Well Lived, which features a diverse group of seniors aged 75-100 who share their insights on life, love, and aging gracefully. Does the movie show the value of making the most of your precious time, or is it time best spent elsewhere? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a mov...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye bone up on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Wiser Than Me podcast, where the Seinfeld and Veep star interviews her older female idols. Is the show a candid and often hilarious series of insightful conversations, or is it yet another vanity celebrity podcast best left unheard? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podc...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye take a bite into Apples Never Fall: a 2024 psychological thriller miniseries starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill that lifts the rock off of a seemingly “perfect” family to expose the wriggling ugliness beneath. Is the show an engrossing exploration of dark family dynamics or is it a desperate Desperate Housewives-ish whodonei...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye swallow The Substance: the controversial 2024 psychological body-horror film starring Demi Moore as an aging celebrity who has hit bottom, and is willing to do ANYTHING to regain her youth. Is the film a provocative exploration of the warped funhouse mirror of female aging in modern society, or is it an off-putting mess of cine...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye keep their voices down but run the risk of Waking Ned Devine, nonetheless. Yes, your plucky hosts hold vigil around the 2004 Irish comedy/drama where the title character wins the lottery and—spoiler—dies, so his village, desperate for financial relief, hatches a plan to claim the lottery winnings on Ned's behalf. Is the film a...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye deviate from the usual format to talk about a film that they actually made together: like, a long time ago but only recently completed, and premiering at the Klamath Falls Film Festival. Get the inside scoop on the looooooooong journey of Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! (the movie) on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie,...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye spin The Weasel’s Tale, Academy Award-winning director Juan José Campanella’s 2019 dark comedy where a group of elderly veterans of the Argentine film industry living together in a grand mansion are visited by a young couple with ulterior motives. Is the film a clever, intricate, and hilarious puzzle of intrigue or an attempt t...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye pay a visit to Thelma: the 2024 comedy-drama film starring June Squibb in her first leading role as a 93-year-old woman who gets scammed by a phone cheat pretending to be her grandson. Is the film an uplifting, darkly-comic revenge tale, or an attempt to swindle viewers out of their valuable time?  Find out on Uncertain Age! An...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye receive some Wicked Little Letters: the 2024 period comedy starring Olivia Colman where a small English town is thrown into chaos when residents begin receiving anonymous letters filled with crude and offensive language. Is the film a witty stab at the starched mores of polite society, or merely a bloated episode of Masterpiece...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye uncover a swarm of Queen Bees, the 2021 comedy-drama film that follows the life of Helen (Ellen Burstyn), a fiercely independent widow who is reluctantly forced to move into a retirement community after a kitchen fire. Is the film “buzz-worthy” or lacking sting? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcas...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye take a spin in Gran Torino, the 2008 drama starring Clint Eastwood. The film centers around Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) a gruff, aging Korean War veteran at odds with his changing surroundings and a Hmong immigrant family who moves next door. Is the film a gripping look at racism and redemption, or is it a tired Eastwood vehicle b...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye keep their Eye in the Sky: the 2015 political thriller starring Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Is the film a taut, complicated look at modern warfare, or is a trite mess that drones on and on?  Find out on Uncertain...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye bask in The Sunshine Boys, the 1975 comedy starring Walter Matthau and George Burns as feuding vaudeville comedians who are reunited for a TV special about the history of comedy. Is the film a blazing slapstick romp or a tired attempt at humor that will give you third degree Burns?  Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a m...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye join Quartet, the 2012 film set in a retirement home for former opera singers where rehearsals for the annual Verdi birthday gala stir up memories and rivalries among the residents. Is the film a harmonious ensemble piece or does it hit a bunch of false notes? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye head off to Nebraska, the 2013 film starring Bruce Dern as a stubborn man who is convinced he's won a million-dollar sweepstakes and sets off on a quirky road trip with his son David (Will Forte) to claim his prize. Is the film a touching jaunt through troubled family histories or does it break down on the shoulder? Find out on...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye have a Senior Moment, which also happens to be a 2021 film starring William “Captain Kirk” Shatner as a retired, hot-headed NASA test pilot who loses his driver's license after a drag racing escapade and finds late-in-life love with a baker (Jean Smart). Is the film a fun portrait of reinvention or does it barely get off the la...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye deviate somewhat from the usual to watch Late Bloomers, the 2023 coming-of-age comedy-drama where Louise (Karen Gillan) struggles to find direction in life after a recent breakup, and meets Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein) a cranky elderly Polish woman, after a drunken fall puts Louise in the hospital. Is the film a delightful...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas, Dale Basye, and special guest film critic and author Justin Tanner take on their biggest case yet: reviewing the 1977 Neo-noir mystery The Late Show. Art Carney plays Ira Wells, a world-weary private investigator nearing retirement, whose world is turned upside down when his partner is murdered, leading him on a search for a missing cat owne...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye pack their bags and head off to Summer Camp, the 2024 film where lifelong friends Nora (Diane Keaton), Ginny (Kathy Bates), and Mary (Alfre Woodard) return to the summer camp of their childhood for a nostalgic reunion. Is the film like reconnecting around a cozy campfire with good friends or more like contracting cinematic pois...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye leave it all behind and watch the 2020 Academy Award Winner Nomadland, the story of Fern (Frances McDormand) a woman in her sixties who loses everything, including her job and home, after the economic collapse of 2008 shutters the factory where she and her husband worked. Does the film deserve to be a Best Picture, or is it a c...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye while away the hours (both of them) watching the 2023 Wim Wenders film Perfect Days. The film tells the story of Hirayama, a middle-aged public toilet cleaner living in Tokyo. Does the film find beauty in the most unlikely of places, or should it be flushed from Wenders’ contemplative oeuvre? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if t...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye sit still to watch the 2022 dramedy Moving On, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The movie tells the story of two estranged friends who reunite at a funeral, bound by the love of their dead friend Joyce, and their hatred of her husband Howard, played by Malcolm McDowell (who stretches his acting chops to play a creepy guy)....

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye have an appointment with the 2021 movie Swan Song starring Udo Kier. The movie follows a hairstylist—once a flamboyant figure in the local gay community—who reluctantly comes out of retirement to style the hair of a deceased former client. Is the film a touching flight of fancy or a cinematic ugly duckling? Find out on Uncertai...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye give their eyes a rest and tune into the podcast Dating While Gray, hosted by writer Laura Stassi, which is geared towards people over 50 who are looking for love and companionship. Is the show a compelling peek into the challenges and joys of dating in the later stages of life or is it a bad blind date that will having you ask...

Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye move away from “only reviewing movies” and into The Arconia apartment complex for Only Murders in the Building: the popular 2021 mystery comedy-drama series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez and co-starring almost everyone else. Is the show a delightful send-up of true crime obsessives or should it be evicted af...