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Uncertain Age

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!

tv & film tv reviews

All Episodes

24:57

Nomadland

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2024/05/25

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 case of Crash 2: Electric Boogaloo? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast

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26:45

Perfect Days

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2024/05/15

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 there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at info@uncertainage.co!

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21:38

Moving On

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2024/05/08

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). Is the movie yet another example of that crackling Fonda/Tomlin chemistry, or has their rambunctious

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17:50

Swan Song

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2024/04/30

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 Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at

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32:10

Dating While Gray

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2024/04/23

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 asking for the check? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to

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26:53

Only Murders in the Building

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2024/04/16

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 after three seasons? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to

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19:34

Last Vegas

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2024/04/08

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 Vegas? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at info@uncertainage.co!

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16:26

Jerry and Marge Go Large

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2024/04/02

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 time? Find out on Uncertain Age! And if there’s a movie, show, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at info@uncertainage.co!

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27:41

Cocoon

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2024/03/23

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, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at info@uncertainage.co!

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21:41

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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2024/03/17

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, show, or podcast you’d like us to review, let us know at info@uncertainage.co!

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19:57

About Schmidt

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2024/03/10

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 Uncertain Age!

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15:03

Jules

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2024/03/03

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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14:36

The Father

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2024/02/26

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: forgettable? Find out!

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34:07

Harold and Maude

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2024/02/25

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” in “funeral”? Find out!

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24:52

80 For Brady

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2024/02/25

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 with full-contact cringe? Find out!

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30:03

Grumpy Old Men

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2024/02/25

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…or would have, if such a thing had existed. Does the film hold up? Or is it long-in-the-tooth? Find out!

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02:02

Welcome to Uncertain Age

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2024/02/11

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. Dale Basye is a writer, film critic, musician, and author of the Circles of Heck series for Random House.

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