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-w

Summer Camp

14 days ago 29m 55s

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 cam

Nomadland

23 days ago 24m 57s

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 a

Perfect Days

May 15th, 2024 26m 45s

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 Toky

Moving On

May 8th, 2024 21m 38s

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

Swan Song

Apr 30th, 2024 17m 50s

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 come

Dating While Gray

Apr 23rd, 2024 32m 10s

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 compan

Only Murders in the Building

Apr 16th, 2024 26m 53s

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 M

Last Vegas

Apr 8th, 2024 19m 34s

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 ba

Jerry and Marge Go Large

Apr 2nd, 2024 16m 26s

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 mat

Cocoon

Mar 23rd, 2024 27m 41s

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

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Mar 17th, 2024 21m 41s

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 ser

About Schmidt

Mar 10th, 2024 19m 57s

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 FREAK

Jules

Mar 3rd, 2024 15m 3s

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 M

The Father

Feb 26th, 2024 14m 36s

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, A

Harold and Maude

Feb 25th, 2024 34m 7s

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 (Ru

80 For Brady

Feb 25th, 2024 24m 52s

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

Grumpy Old Men

Feb 25th, 2024 30m 3s

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

Welcome to Uncertain Age

Feb 11th, 2024 2m 2s

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

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