DVD Talk reviews for Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Poms (Blu-ray)
<small>by Ryan Keefer</small><hr />I've been exposed to a lot to people in the late November/early December of their lives recently, and it is various helping sizes of sadness, emotion, triumph, melancholy and farewell. And it's nice to see it embraced in one fashion or another lately by actresses like Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton, who seem to enjoy making movies that poke fun at their age or mortality, as is the case with Poms.
Documentary director Zara Hayes co-wrote the story and directed it as well, which features Keaton (Book Club) as Martha, a woman who moves into a retirement community around the time of learning about a terminal cancer diagnosis. She meets Sheryl (Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook), who encourages her to find herself while doing normal...Read the entire review »