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June 12, 2021 Share There are two genres I tend to approach with extra caution: Slashers and retirement home comedies. Both have found me covering my eyes for not entirely unrelated reasons. Yes, the dismembering is more metaphorical in the latter, but sometimes it’s equally hard to stomach seeing a great group of actors reduced to incontinence jokes. Also, I’m still recovering from the Diane Keaton movie “Poms.” The latest retirement home comedy is “ Queen Bees,” about Hele...

Movie review: A star-studded retirement home in Queen Bees

The new retirement home comedy “Queen Bees" follows Helen, played by the majestic Ellen Burstyn, who reluctantly moves into a senior community while her beautiful suburban house is being fixed up after an accidental kitchen fire

There are two genres I tend to approach with extra caution: Slashers and retirement home comedies. Both have found me covering my eyes for not entirely unrelated reasons. Yes, the

The wonderful Ellen Burstyn stars as a woman who moves into a retirement home in the film comedy "Queen Bees," which suffers from a bit of sitcom blandness.

Queen Bees, and ET can exclusively debut the first trailer. A comedy about the young at heart, as the movie is billed, Queen Bees stars the Oscar winner as the fiercely independent Helen, who temporarily moves into Pine Grove Senior Community while her home undergoes repairs. There, she encounters the titular clique of "mean girls with medical alert bracelets" played by Loretta Devine, Jane Curtin and Ann-Margret. "This isnt high school," Helen chides Devines Sally in the trailer. "Its worse!"...