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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


Series Review: Succession Finale & Fabulous Shiv
Huddle up, Succession lovers. Wake up and smell the woman. Shiv is the star of this finale, although the other actors’ performances are...
Jun 1, 20234 min read


#FunFilms: Draft Day Review
We are coming into Memorial Day weekend. Great time to watch a film you might have missed. One that the whole family can enjoy. I...
May 26, 20233 min read


Movie Review: Tokyo Story
by Patrice Tanaka Whenever I’m particularly agitated and need to calm down, I’ll watch a film by the late Japanese Director Yasujiro Ozu....
May 6, 20231 min read


The Diplomat
On a very special episode of Screen Thoughts, Christine Merser, Bryan Cohen and Shanette Barth Cohen give a review of Netflix's The...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Talking The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Renfield, Mafia Mama & Jennifer Garner
What a week it was chatting about Mario’s amazing box office receipts, Mafia Mama (look for no lovers on this podcast), and Renfield. We...
Apr 24, 20231 min read


Talking Hollywood Remakes, a Review of Air & What We've Been Watching
Tim Miller is back, guest co-hosting with Hollister and this podcast is chock full of film. They don’t agree on Air at all, with...
Apr 14, 20231 min read


Movie Review: The Quiet Girl
"You don't have to say anything. Many is the person who has missed the opportunity to say nothing." The gentle giant of a man, who says...
Mar 24, 20233 min read


Movie Review: Women Talking
Toward the end of the movie “Women Talking,” one of the characters says she has thought about one of the questions they’ve been mulling...
Mar 3, 20235 min read


The Martha Mitchell Effect Documentary Review
by Christine Merser When I learned that my cohort and fellow film lover Beth Levison, who sat on a panel with me and stayed in touch,...
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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