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Film Review: Bad Shabbos
Crisp, fast dialogue. Extremely funny dialogue. Unexpected twists and turns. Amazing acting.
3 days ago4 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

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


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

Film Review: Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Review written by Christine Merser for The Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Maine, where the movie will be showing this upcoming weekend....
Oct 23, 20232 min read


Talking the Morning Show, Season 3
Merser and Wilder talk The Morning Show, reviewing this new season and commenting on the past two seasons, all the while discussing...
Sep 28, 20231 min read

Film Review: Golda
Screen Thoughts recently hosted a preview of the film, Golda, and invited fifty friends and family to see the much-anticipated film about...
Aug 25, 20236 min read

Oppenheimer
Christine and Wilder speed through their review of the three hour Oppenheimer, singing its praises, its importance and so many behind the...
Jul 23, 20231 min read

Talking the Crowded Room, the Hollywood Writer's Strike, Golda, and More
Christine (AKA Hollister) and Wilder dissect Apple’s the Crowded Room, and address Christine’s POV around the futility of the writer’s...
Jul 10, 20231 min read

Documentary Film Review: "At The River"
The names of many of the heroes of the Civil Rights movement are well known to us today: MLK, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers—the list goes on....
Jun 23, 20232 min read
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