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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


Lessons in Chemistry
This week it's all about "Lessons in Chemistry" on AppleTV+. It should not come as a surprise to regular listeners of Screen Thoughts...
Oct 27, 20231 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


The Super Models & Flora and Son
Hollister welcomes the writers back to work and comments on the opening line of the new contract, which is something out of Star Wars to...
Oct 10, 20231 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


Film Review: Barbie
Greta, I think I forgive you. Not sure yet. You had an opportunity to change the more -than-sixty-year course of Barbie's destruction of...
Jul 22, 20236 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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