Tag: #eldersrock
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Broken Memories, a family story
Broken Memories tells a story about a son struggling with his father’s dementia. He hires a young woman to help with his father and her arrival brings many changes to the situation. The film is both heartwarming and heartbreaking, as many dementia stories are.
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One Fine Morning review: Léa Seydoux in a lovely role
One Fine Morning (Un beau matin) stars Léa Seydoux in a gentle and sweet character study. This French film was written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. The work I’ve seen from this director in the past was introspective and seemingly uneventful. This is similar. It’s a personality study that moves through a few months in…
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Queen Bees review: Why, yes, elders rock
Queen Bees is a story about how it’s never too late to make new friends and it’s never too late to fall in love. Set in a retirement home with a great cast of elders, it’s a touch of mean girls combined with a romcom. As the film says, “It’s like mean girls in Medic…
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Harry Wild, season 2 stays on track
Harry Wild set up a world in season 1 that could move along through many episodes of crime solving by the newly hatched detective Harry Wild (Jane Seymour) and her young partner Fergus (Rohan Nedd). Season 2 does exactly that, with 6 new murders and some interesting character development among the regular cast members.
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Nyad, never, ever give up
Nyad tells the story of Diana Nyad’s epic marathon swim from Cuba to Florida, a distance of over 100 miles. Nyad was 64 years old at the time. She swam nonstop for 52 hours and 54 minutes. It’s a scripted film with Annette Bening playing Diana Nyad, but it incorporates some documentary-like moments using archival…
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Only Murders in the Building, season 3, showstopping fun
Only Murders in the Building, season 3, is another hilarious and twisty romp through a murder mystery set in the building where our heroes Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) live.
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Review: Moving On, Fonda & Tomlin do drama
Moving On from writer and director Paul Weitz brings Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin together again. This time they demonstrate their dramatic acting abilities in a beautiful story about healing the past.
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Virgin River, season 5, it’s a well-oiled machine
Virgin River is back with season 5. Netflix released 10 of the episodes together, and promises two more Christmas themed episodes on November 30. Everything about this series works. The cast has settled in to their roles convincingly and comfortably, the storylines are full of love, friendship, family, and plenty of perilous moments to keep…
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Happiness for Beginners review: a walk in the woods
Happiness for Beginners, a feel good story written for the screen and directed by Vicky Wight, stars Ellie Kemper as a grown up serious woman. This is a new type of role for her and I enjoyed watching her exercise her drama skills.
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80 for Brady lets #EldersRock to the max
80 for Brady is a cute romp with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin having a great time together. A certain NFL player named Tom Brady is involved in this story about some elderly football fans.