The Last Laugh (2019) - Movie Review

As I’ve gotten into in past reviews, there is something rather irksome about how older actors are treated in recent films. For every film willing to show that these old dogs still got some bite, there’s something close to a dozen that use ‘old = funny’ as its sole blueprint and burn away dignity for the sake of cheap yuks. Not to say that this is a one-sided aspect, since there is definitely some ‘stopped giving a fuck’ behind why certain actors choose those particular scripts (either that or they’re raising money for the grandkids), or that there isn’t any comedy to be mined out of the older generation, same as any other generation; just that the approach for the most part leaves a lot to be desired.

Life Of The Party (2018) - Movie Review

The plot: After being told that her husband (Matt Walsh) is leaving her for another woman, Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) decides to take her life back into her own hands and do the one thing that she always wanted to do: Get her archeology degree. She enrols herself at the same college her daughter Maddie (Molly Gordon) is attending, and as she adjusts to college life as an older student, she discovers just how much she missed out on the first time round.