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A podcast for movie and TV lovers of a certain age! Every week, hosts AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye help you muddle through media and navigate what to consume: looking at classics, obscurities, and new releases through the lens of maturity. Are actors cast appropriately? Are older characters treated respectfully? Any triggers for people 50+? Life is uncertain. And we need all of the certainty that we can get!
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Karen and Philippa are two forty-somethings who, after 20 years of friendship, still aren't sick of talking to each other. Our years of life experience may not have made us experts at anything, but they've given us plenty of material, especially when it comes to relationships—the most important things we humans can have. (Wine is a close second.) So listen in as we talk about friendship, dating, marriage, divorce, and all sorts of other relationship stuff that’s universal, yet darned near im ...
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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 Un…
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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 i…
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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 mo…
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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 th…
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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…
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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…
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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 t…
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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 s…
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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 Unce…
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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 a…
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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 …
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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 Bur…
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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 Uncert…
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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 …
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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 portra…
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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…
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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 murder…
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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 go…
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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 t…
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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’ contemp…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 o…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye place a bet on the 2013 movie Last Vegas, where four lifelong friends—played by Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline—reunite in Sin City for a bachelor party. Does the film hit the jackpot or is it a case of what happens in Vegas should have stayed in…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye play the cinematic lottery and watch the 2022 film Jerry and Marge Go Large, starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, where a retired couple go all-in after finding a mathematical loophole in the WinFall lottery. Is the film a safe bet or a useless Scratch-it of your precious…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye go back to the egg for the 1985 classic Cocoon, where a retirement community discovers a hidden pool containing alien cocoons, hence the name. Is the film as rejuvenating as it was back in the day, or is it a pile of pupa? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show,…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye check in to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the 2011 British comedy drama involving seven retirees relocating to India to start their next—and last—phase of life. Is the service to our liking or will we be demanding a refund? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, sh…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye revisit the 2002 Alexander Payne film, About Schmidt. What’s it about? Schmidt, of course. Does star Jack Nicholson’s performance make you forget that he’s, well, JACK FREAKING NICHOLSON, or does Schmidt’s journey through grief, regret, and redemption ring hollow? Find out on Un…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and an artificially intelligent Dale Basye are visited by the 2023 film Jules, which stars Ben Kingsley as a widower whose quiet routine is upended when a UFO crashes in his backyard. Is Milton truly having a close encounter or is this just a sign of early onset dementia? Find out!…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye pay a visit to the poignant 2020 drama The Father. Anthony Hopkins plays, well…Anthony: a man struggling with memory loss and confusion who refuses help from his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman). Does the film offer a compelling portrait of dementia or is it ultimately, um: forget…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye exhume the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude where Bud Cort plays Harold Chasen, a wealthy young man obsessed with death and staging fake suicides who meets Maude Chard (Ruth Gordon) a free-spirited 79-year-old woman who embraces life to its fullest. Does the film put the “fun”…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye put on their metaphoric jerseys and review the 2023 comedy 80 for Brady, where acting legends Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field play lifelong friends who bond over NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Will the film have you on your feet cheering or rolling your eyes wi…
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Welcome to Uncertain Age! This week, AR (Anna) Nicholas and Dale Basye bite into Grumpy Old Men: the 1993 comedy that reunited once-Odd Couple Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The film follows two curmudgeonly neighbors who have been feuding for years. Grumpy Old Men was a critical and commercial success and started the popular Grumpy-Core movement……
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Welcome to Uncertain Age: a podcast about movies & TV shows, only viewed through the lens of those—shall we say—of a certain age. Each week, hosts Anna Nicholas and Dale Basye review a movie or show and discuss how it portrays older characters and themes. Anna is a writer, director, actress, and studied law before realizing that life is too short. …
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