Each year, usually sometime around Mother’s Day weekend, Hollywood churns out a well-meaning if bland offering specifically designed for older audiences. Rising above the comfortable charm of the basic retiree fare, director Zara Hayes’s Poms uses feel-good clichés as a…
Interview: Bill Holderman and Erin Simms Talk About Breaking Taboos and Their Inspiration for ‘Book Club’
Having an open discussion about sex and sexuality in our society is a hard task. No matter how old you get, the topic continues to be repressed up until you reach a certain age and then the topic becomes downright…
Book Club Movie Review: Important Representation and a Renowned Cast Save an Otherwise Retirable Romcom
I’ll be the first to admit that I understand why people find it hard to think of older people as sexual beings. Not because they are no longer sexy, or even because we automatically think of our own grandparents, but…
‘5 Flights Up’ Review: Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton Can’t Elevate a Nothing Story
“5 Flights Up” often feels so busy while simultaneously coming off as thin and empty. It makes for quite the uneven experience. Luckily, watching Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman play a longtime married couple brings warmth and comfort to the…
Jon’s Movie Review: “And So It Goes” Takes Us Nowhere
For the most part, I take great pleasure in visiting my grandparents. Listening to stories of bygone days, daily struggles made irrelevant by new technologies, and cyclical hardships that seem to echo through the decades and show up in different…