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Eleanor the Great (2025)

Eleanor the Great (2025)

It only took Hollywood decades to figure out that 90-something June Squibb could easily hold her own as a lead. After landing a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Nebraska...

Linda
Thelma (2024)

Thelma (2024)

A friend of mine laughed when I called Thelma a slow-motion action movie, but it’s true! The biggest moment of nail-biting tension doesn’t involve a gun (though there is one),...

Linda
80 for Brady

80 for Brady (2023)

Everyone loves a feel-good movie based on a true story… the more outlandish the pretense, the better. And now that we are in the post-holiday movie doldrums, what sounds...

Linda
The Manor

The Manor (2021)

For personal reasons, The Manor may have been one of those “too soon” movie choices for me to watch on a cold, dark October night. The story of a...

Linda
Bingo Hell

Bingo Hell (2021)

With a name like Bingo Hell, you may not expect a clever allegory of gentrification and the fading luster of the American Dream. But this campy horror-comedy delivers its...

Linda
Going in Style (2017)

Going in Style (2017)

Society has a way of dismissing older people, as if by virtue of aging you’re become some sort of tool with no opinions and and endless capacity to be...

Jennifer
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

Where the first Marigold Hotel was about discovery and wonder and evolution and the value of challenging oneself, its successor centers more on courage – namely, the courage to...

Vickie
Elsa & Fred (2014)

Elsa & Fred (2014)

There aren’t a lot of sweet movies these days, and by “sweet” I don’t mean sentimental or family friendly. I mean nice movies about regular folks. Elsa and Fred...

Jennifer
Still Mine

Still Mine

In every life there comes a point when things stop working. Maybe it’s the way you live or how you’ve always supported yourself. Maybe it’s more fundamental, and your...

Jennifer
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

Funny, poignant, joyful and filled with beauty, this comedy-drama from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and writer Ol Parker (Imagine Me and You, which I also loved beyond...

Vickie
Unconditional Love (2002)

Unconditional Love (2002)

Oh dear. I think I just watched a movie about myself in middle age, and it’s not pretty. I’m going to turn out like Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates), married...

Jennifer