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Cannes 2025: Notes from a Festival That Still Matters
I don’t know what you were doing this week, but I was watching Cannes from the sidelines, piecing together the buzz, the ovations, and...
May 263 min read


Movie Review: The Friend
Is it possible that a movie with Bill Murray could bring out actual empathy?Yes. Yes, he can.
May 182 min read


The Morning Show, Season Three
The Morning Show, Season Three, who knew it was real?
May 64 min read


Film Review: Bad Shabbos
Crisp, fast dialogue. Extremely funny dialogue. Unexpected twists and turns. Amazing acting.
Apr 184 min read


Last Season of The Handmaid's Tale
Season six of The Handmaid's Tale is here. What to watch before it begins to remind you of the last eight years....
Mar 303 min read


Adolescence Netflix Series Review
Christine’s review of Adolescence, Netflix’s #1 series about an eleven-year-old boy who kills his classmate, will have you turning off...
Mar 261 min read


Douglas is Cancelled Review
And it’s good. No, it’s great. It’s funny. So you have to be on your toes paying attention. You can feel your brain synapsing.
Mar 224 min read


I'm Still Here: When Personal Memory Becomes a Universal Story
Some of the greatest movies tell stories that are so personal they become universal. The Brazilian film I'm Still Here achieves exactly...
Jan 283 min read


Movie Review: A Real Pain
Christine Merser AKA Hollister has nothing but praise for Jesse Eisenberg from the start of this week's episode, as she dives into his...
Jan 221 min read


TV Show Review: Martha
Christine Merser aka Hollister has a solo episode for us after watching and being left speechless by Netflix's new documentary, Martha,...
Nov 5, 20241 min read


Movie Review: Fresh Kills
Christine Merser (AKA Hollister) goes this one alone. Fresh Kills , according to her review, should have been front and center at the...
Oct 14, 20241 min read


Film Review - "Challengers"
There is a reason why “Challengers” has become the darling of the independent film and theater community. I have never seen a film that...
Jun 3, 20241 min read


Run to See "Perfect Days"
Run to "Perfect Days." Wait, plan to go see it twice. I have watched it twice in preparing for this review, which the fabulous Christina...
Mar 20, 20243 min read


2024 Oscar Shorts
"Why watch the shorts," you may ask? Telling a story in a short film is much more difficult than in a long narrative. Every word matters,...
Feb 12, 20242 min read


Barbie & the Academy Awards
After seeing Barbie last summer, I gave Greta Gerwig's film a thumbs down. I didn't like the first twenty minutes, which I felt would...
Jan 24, 20242 min read


Movie Review: May December
"May December," featuring a star-studded cast including Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, is much more than the torrid story of a...
Dec 15, 20231 min read


The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
High schooler Addie Tedrow, a lover of all things Hunger Games, joins Christine Merser to discuss the latest in the series, The Hunger...
Dec 11, 20231 min read


NYAD & The Holdovers
"The Holdovers," bringing back 70s and 80s boarding school films, heads toward awards season with Paul Giamatti finding his way to...
Nov 15, 20231 min read


Review of 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Review written by Christine Merser for The Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Maine, where the movie will be showing through November 16th....
Nov 14, 20232 min read


The Burial
Who knew that the movie The Burial on Amazon Prime was as fabulously brilliant and fun and compelling as it is? Don’t watch the trailer....
Nov 2, 20231 min read
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