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Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV Reviews
Hollister reviews all things on the screen ... every week. Not to be missed.
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Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: You Can See Everything
I had already questioned why everyone was so consumed with Elizabeth Holmes. Then Wilder told me to get my ass to the movie theater. Fifteen minutes after I…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Unabomber and The Love Hypothesis
What happens when you take a sixteen-year-old who already feels like an outsider and put him through years of psychological experiments at Harvard? Netflix’s…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Practical Magic 2
Why is Practical Magic 2 filling theaters with women, and why are so many of them leaving in tears? Wilder and I talk about why this sequel feels bigger than…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: The Drama
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple preparing to get married when a confession from her past changes everything. The film then moves into deeply…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: The Odyssey
Is it a success? That depends on what you were looking for when The Odyssey started rolling. Different people came to this film expecting very different…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Hamnet
Wilder and Merser are late to join the admirers of the extraordinary film Hamnet, but only because Merser wasn’t sure she wanted to take the emotional journey…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures is one of the quietest films I’ve seen in years, and maybe one of the most powerful because of it. Starring Sally Field and Lewis…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
In this episode I take a deep dive into The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a film that should have been front-row center but never got its moment. I talk about Riz…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsThe Diplomat, Season Three, TV Series Review
Merser and Wilder could not wait to unpack Season Three of The Diplomat, which Merser calls “the best of the three, by a diplomatic mile.” After a quick walk…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm 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 seventh-grade teacher who…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm 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 latest film, A Real…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Documentary Review: Martha
Christine Merser aka Hollister has a solo episode for us after watching and being left speechless by Netflix's new documentary, Martha, about Martha Stewart…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Adolescence
Christine’s review of Adolescence, Netflix’s #1 series about an eleven-year-old boy who kills his classmate, will have you turning off her video to start…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm 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 Academy Awards. Was it…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsThe 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 Games: The Ballad of…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Reviews: NYAD and The Holdovers
"The Holdovers," bringing back 70s and 80s boarding school films, heads toward awards season with Paul Giamatti finding his way to front-page news. Why hasn't…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: 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. Just listen to this…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: 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 that Hollister and Wilder…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Reviews: 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 be sure. First up is…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsSeries Review: The Morning Show, Season Three
Merser and Wilder talk The Morning Show, reviewing this new season and commenting on the past two seasons, all the while discussing women's increasing power in…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Oppenheimer
Christine and Wilder speed through their review of the three hour Oppenheimer, singing its praises, its importance and so many behind the scenes extras. Is it…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTalking 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 strike, while Wilder…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsDocumentary 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. But there were unsung…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTalking 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 Diplomat, kicking the…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTalking 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 finish up with…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTalking 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 comparison’s by Hollister to…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Catherine Called Birdy Review
Lena Dunham’s latest creation is out and ready to be seen by mothers and daughters all across the land. Brave girl, that Lena Dunham. No one tackles the…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsList of 6 Halloween Films
Join Hollister and Wilder as they explore their favorite Halloween films. Spoiler alert: not all are about Halloween. They are, however, classics and it’s a…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: HBO’s House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon. Game of Thrones. Don’t get Wilder started on the fantasy appeal for both. But she even won Hollister over with the need to at least give…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Bad Sisters
Bad Sisters. “If those are bad sisters, I want to be one!,” said Hollister. Mixing comedy with drama (tragedy?) is a good combination according to Hollister…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: A League of Their Own Series
Amazon Prime’s A League of Their Own Series: Join Wilder and Hollister as they celebrate and evaluate the new Amazon Prime series, A League of Their Own…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Peacock's The Resort
Among Peacock's stream of new programming we found 'The Resort.' Hollister & Wilder are both fans of this show, where you're not quite sure where it's going as…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: The Bear
Recommended by so many and for such good reason. "One of the best series ever,” sang Hollister. Wilder is right there with her. They agreed on everything…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Loot
Loot is a satire about the billionaire sector, but with some twists and turns that make it actually helpful, according to Hollister. Apple TV+ is nailing…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth
Cha Cha Real Smooth, with Dakota Johnson, who according to Hollister has one speed - ‘coy,’ is described by Wilder as ’sweet’ and Hollister concurs. It’s worth…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Flag Day
Sean Penn makes an all-in-the-family film with both his daughter, Dylan, and son, Hopper - one that he first read and shared with Dylan, now thirty, fifteen…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
"Is it an age thing?" queries Hollister a number of times to Wilder during the review. Either way, so many points of view around so many things that came up…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Top Gun Maverick
Movie Review: Top Gun Maverick - Hollister and Wilder feel the need for speed and want to alert you all that there are spoilers in our review this week…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: The Valet
Hollister can’t stop crying after watching The Valet, and had no idea that the Euginio Derbez, who hurt her heart in The Valet, also played the music teacher…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsSeries Review: Under the Banner of Heaven
The Mormon Church's secrets exposed. A murder in the eighties. Mormon Fundamentalists meets the power of the Mormon Church dedicated to making sure the dirty…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm & Series Reviews: The Outfit & The Offer
Hollister and Wilder come to blows over The Offer but agree on the fine work done by all in The Outfit. Think Mafia, but know that the Godfather wasn't allowed…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Gaslit and The First Lady
Hollister and Wilder talk about two shows this week; Gaslit with Julia Roberts and The First Lady with Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series: Anatomy of a Scandal
Hollister and Wilder come to blows about the worth of Netflix's Anatomy of a Scandal, as well as the way it was made. Don't miss it, and according to…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: Pachinko
Hollister and Wilder finally agree, and not only do they agree, they are singing the praises of what could be one of the finest series ever produced for the…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsAbbott Elementary - ABC Series Review
Check out Screen Thought’s review of ABC’s Mockumentary, Abbott Elementary! Hollister and Wilder rave about Abbott Elementary because sometimes watching…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Coda & HBO Series: Winning Time
Is Coda unique or just another remake of girl lives in dysfunctional family, meets fabulous boy and ends up with a groundbreaking try out to enter a new world…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Severance and The Dropout
Hollister has a personal story around Elizabeth Holmes and The Dropout and she is not inclined toward sympathy of any kind, and when it comes to Severance…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsMovie Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
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Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsThe Tinder Swindler, Nightmare Alley, and Inventing Anna
This week is chock full of bad peeps; #TinderSwindler; do not get Hollister started. Why is this man not in jail? Wilder goes wild for Nightmare Alley…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts Pam & Tommy
Academy Awards. Killing Eve. And a review of Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s new series around the sex tapes from Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, stolen and put out into…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Woman in the Window
Hollister and Wilder walk through Kristen Bell and her Woman in the House ... So much to discuss, including Wilder's idea around how they could have done the…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsFilm Review: Call Jane from Sundance 2022
Hollister goes nostalgic having lived through the sixties/seventies abortion break throughs. Either way, Sundance's Call Jane is the story of "Jane" who you…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Cheer Season 2
Hollister doesn't think it's worthy of her attention although she touts episode 5 and the forty minute story that shows how sexual abuse from celebrities…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: The Gilded Age
Julian Fellowes has left England behind and brought this well-researched, upstairs downstairs drama to HBO (they are nailing new content this month!) in the…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsTV Series Review: Somebody Somewhere
Our new Screen Thoughts Shorts where we podcast a short review around something we think is timely or relevant shouldn’t be missed. First stop? Somebody…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: And Just Like That, Pivoting, & Emily in Paris
Ok, we knew these three wouldn’t be rocket science, but ? Hollister stands by And Just Like That, and Wilder can’t relate, which according to Hollister is no…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: The Lost Daughter
This week Hollister and Wilder remember Sidney Poitier, and talk through Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter, both from the perspective of a woman who has…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: Don’t Look Up & Being the Ricardos
Hollister and Wilder are back after a short few weeks celebrating the holidays with two films - Don’t Look Up and Being the Ricardos. How does Dr. Strangelove…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: King Richard & Tick, Tick... Boom!
King Richard, or the story about Richard William's complicated personality and design for Venus and Serena to become who they became; two of the greatest women…
Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsScreen Thoughts: The Harder They Fall
Hollister and Wilder talk about the sophisticated, The Harder They Fall film that is on Netflix, and according to both of them, is not to be missed. We share…