Screen Thoughts - Movie & Tv Reviews

Catching up on TV: This is Us; The Good Fight; Big Little Lies; a revival of the Gilmore Girls revival? At 7:58: Hollister shares a matter of grave concern. 16:12: This week's #ListOfSix: Best Performances by Actors under the Age of 10. 22:48: A celebrity sighting As Good As it Gets. 25:12: Talk about method: Adam Driver (Girls) became a licensed bus driver to prep for his role in Paterson (written & directed by Jim Jarmusch). 31:33: the hit Australian TV series Offspring (now available on Netflix), starring 7x-Logie-winner Asher Keddie as obstetrician Nina Proudman. We can't help ourselves: the show "delivers"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hollister claims to have the attention span of a flea, but she breezed through this year's Oscar-winning doco: OJ: Made in America (runtime: 7hrs 47 mins), the longest film ever nominated. ​At 4:04: Lena Dunham's Girls: exhibitionism or feminism? ​6:24: This week's #ListOfSix honors Women's History Month - some of our choices might surprise you. ​17:20: A governor's pardon: Hollister warns O'Toole not to get in to Get Out. ​21:58: Two Peter Jackson alums: Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood team up for some vigilante action in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, now available on Netflix. Podcast extra: Melanie Lynskey in her own words on having confidence in Hollywood. ​29:28: Find out if Screen Thoughts would RSVP for Table 19 - starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2; The Hollars); story by Mark Duplass. ​36:22: One final Mark Duplass vehicle: The One I Love, co-starring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), with a cameo by Ted Danson (in whose home the movie was filmed). Learn more about your ad choice

And the Oscar goes to... ​At 5:48: Hollister shares her thoughts on 6x-Oscar-nominee Hacksaw Ridge - directed by Mel Gibson; starring Andrew Garfield. Congrats to Kevin O'Connell, who finally won his Oscar for Best Sound Mixing - after a record-breaking 21 nominations. ​11:09: O'Toole finally sees the German film Toni Erdmann - and thinks it has one of the best cinematic hugs in screen history. Guess who'll be starring in the Hollywood remake? 21:40: Ryan Murphy's latest TV venture: Feud: Bette and Joan - with Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange as screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford collaborating on the horror film What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? ​15:21: In honor of Feud, this week's #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Susan Sarandon/Jessica Lange roles. What do Moonlight, this week's #ListOfSix, and Feud have in common? Just ask O'Toole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the Big Screen vs. the Little Screen. At 1:54: This week's #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Spin-offs. 7:44: Hollister makes a Supreme case for Loving, a narrative film highlighting the 1967 landmark civil rights decision Loving v. Virginia. Starring Joel Edgerton (Jane Got a Gun) and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga as the couple (and plaintiffs), whose marriage (and case) invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. 11:44: An epic love? A United Kingdom. Starring David Oyelowo (Selma; Queen of Katwe) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana and his wife, Englishwoman Ruth Williams (parents of Botswana's current President). Directed by Amma Asante (Belle); screenplay by Guy Hibbert (Eye in the Sky). 18:15: Transporting Australia to California: Big Little Lies. Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman bring Liane Moriarty's bestselling novel to the small screen as a 7-part series on HBO. Co-starring Laura Dern (Certain Women) and Shailene Woodley. Written by 10x Emmy wi

Whoopi Goldberg has 159 credits to her name - but there's one scene she's never played. ​At 4:24: Two Roberts give a press conference: Robert De Niro and RFK, Jr. ​5:21: Our #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Movies with Animals in Them. Will PETA be coming after Hollister & O'Toole? ​11:58: Hollister reminisces about her first hamburger - and reviews The Founder, starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man behind McDonald's. 18:21: O'Toole talks A Dog's Purpose. Directed by Lasse Hallström (The 100-Foot Journey); written by Maya Forbes (Infinitely Polar Bear), et al; starring Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, and at least 4 canine pros. 26:53: Hollister sneaks in Fifty Shades Darker (though hear how she went public with her presence in the actual theater) - starring Dakota Johnson (How To Be Single) and Jamie Dornan (The Fall). Our podcast on the initial installment here: Fifty Shades of Grey. 35:04: New episodes of Girls and Billions. Now O'Toole might just call that gratuitous. Learn more about your ad choice

Remembering a TV giant: hats off to Mary Tyler Moore. This week, it's all about TV. Our updated takes on: This Is Us (NBC)(14:03); Homeland (SHO)(17:00); Grey's Anatomy (ABC)(23:08); The Path (hulu)(28:42); and The Affair (SHO)(32:42). OK, so, it's not ALL about TV. At 5:52: #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Movies Directed by Women. ​We're going to make it after all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are parents ever knowable to their children - and vice versa? Writer/director Mike Mills explores his relationship with his real-life mother in 20th Century Women (24:05). Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig (Mistress America; Maggie's Plan), Elle Fanning, Billy Crudup (Jackie), and Lucas Jade Zumann. From across the pond, a 19th Century Woman: Victoria (43:32), starring Jenna Coleman (Me Before You) as the titular monarch. How does this Masterpiece/PBS production compare to The Crown, A Royal Night Out, and Downton Abbey? Also: Our thoughts on the Oscar nominations (00:00); guess which movie is turning 30 (10:10); Jude Law and Diane Keaton in HBO's "not wildly inaccurate" The Young Pope (12:18); and the 2016 stats: box office and screen dialogue broken down by gender. At 17:48, we revisit last week's #ListOfSix (6 Saddest Movies); and then bring you this week's (19:54) - in name only? 6 Movies with "Woman" or "Women" in the title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terror at the world's oldest marathon: Patriots Day (10:56) - writer/director Peter Berg's take on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings - starring (and produced by) Boston native Mark Wahlberg. With Michelle Monaghan, Rachel Brosnahan, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, and Khandi Alexander. At 3:00: this week's #ListOfSix: Our 6 Saddest Movies. And the box office has spoken, astronomically: congrats to last week's film: #HiddenFigures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the truly inspiring women you don't know behind the mission you do: Hidden Figures (11:42). Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe - as real-life aeronautical superheroes Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Based on the 2016 New York Times bestselling book by Margot Lee Shetterly (whose mantra is Research. Write. Repeat): Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. Hidden Figures inspires this week's #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Movies Based on Real Events (4:04). Also, Hollister welcomes the return of Homeland (0:38); and, having already been adapted for the big screen, Hulu brings Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to the small screen (1:28). Hit play for this month's LitLovers selection - and... 3-2-1 Liftoff! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie Portman takes on an icon in Pablo Larraín's Jackie (9:45); Hollister shares some personal recollections. Podcast extras include an excerpt from the real Jackie's Emmy-winning White House Tour. This week's #ListOfSix: 6 Strong Female TV Characters (2:06). O'Toole pays homage to Fred & Ginger (1:10); Hollister discusses The Jinx (7:26). ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Carrie Fisher. At 3:14: #ListOfSix: 6 Movies We're Looking Forward to in 2017. At 9:12: Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling star in Damien Chazelle's La La Land. Guess which one of us was impressed by the making-of stories, and which one of us was not exactly in Camp Rah-Rah Land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 12:26: An Isabelle Huppert double-header: Elle, directed by Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) and L'avenir (Things to Come), written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve - the film is an homage to her mother, a philosophy teacher. At 25:51: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis reprise their 2010 Tony-winning roles in August Wilson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fences. Also: 7:35: What half of all Brits dream about (The Crown, anyone?); 8:50: Hollister makes a confession (Survivor fans, listen in!); and #ListOfSix: 6 Golden Globe snubs. Let the awards season begin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 8:20: The buzz around Manchester by the Sea. Discover which of us thought it was pure genius; and which of us thought it was a cinematic slow-swinging sledgehammer. Written & directed by Ken Lonergan; starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, and Gretchen Mol. At 29:31: Miss Sloane, reteaming director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and Jessica Chastain (The Martian). With John Lithgow (The Crown); Sam Waterston (Grace & Frankie); Christine Baranski (The Good Wife), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Easy), and Jake Lacy (How to Be Single). Also: kicking off the podcast, this week's #ListOfSix: Book to Screen Adaptations; and at 6:58: Congrats to YouTube sensation Connor Hines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WW2 and contemplating a world without villains. At 3:01: #ListOfSix: 6 Movies That Surprised Us. 10:10: Allied, starring Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard. O'Toole thinks it's Mr. & Mrs. Smith as a period piece. Written by Steven Knight (Burnt; The Hundred-Foot Journey); directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump; Back to the Future). 20:26: Hollister welcomes Season 14 of Top Chef. 20:48: NBC's hit This Is Us. Starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, and Sterling K. Brown. Created by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love); executive produced by Ken Olin (Thirtysomething). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buskers & Burning Questions. Trivia & Tributes. 9 years after the original Gilmore Girls series (2000-2007) wrapped, Netflix sponsors a trip back to Stars Hollow. Hollister & O'Toole review this 4-part series - to quote Carole King: Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Amy Adams week - we take a look at two features headlining the 5x-Oscar nominee: At 10:12: Arrival - or, a hover-side chat with heptapods. Co-starring Jeremy Renner and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario). At 23:21: Nocturnal Animals - written & directed by fashion icon Tom Ford. Co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon (Elvis & Nixon). Also featured: ​#ListOfSix: in time for Thanksgiving*, our 6 favorite holiday movies. At 6:40: guess which hit movie has inspired a new Broadway show. At 7:35: Hollister reviews Coming Through the Rye. *We are grateful to all our listeners - and to all the artists who bring it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anna Kendrick on her first book tour: #ScrappyLittleNobody. At 2:58: #ListofSix 6 Favorite Songs from Movies. 9:50: O'Toole finally experiences Hannibal the Cannibal in Hollister's favorite film: The Silence of the Lambs. 17:24: Hollister revisits her custody arrangement with the HBO/Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle Divorce. 18:36: Anna will never find her: Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery goes down, down, downstairs in TNT's new series Good Behavior. 25:33: SHO releases Season 3, Ep. 1 of The Affair on YouTube. 28:23: Spielberg's collaboration with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's #ListofSix: Our 6 Favorite Courtroom Movies (with 2 Honorable Mentions). At 10:02: A Royal Affair indeed: the lavish new $130MM Netflix series The Crown. Starring Claire Foy as QE2; Matt Smith as Prince Philip, and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill. Written and created by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen). At this rate, the sun will never set on the Netflix empire - God save the TV! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Hollister's favorite serial killers to what O'Toole thinks Hugh Grant has in common with Bob Newhart - we start off with this week's #ListOfSix: Our 6 Favorite Shrinks. At 7:30: The final season of The Fall (starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan) - does it still have its Fear Factor? At 9:40: Still recovering from the pilot episode (a British PM and a pig, anyone?), Screen Thoughts dares to take another look at Black Mirror - Netflix' Nosedive episode - a bleak commentary on Social Media. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard; directed by Joe Wright (Atonement); written by Rashida Jones. Hollister reveals her Uber rating. At 18:40: like daughter, like father: Ron Howard's Inferno, starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, and Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen). At 21:30 Certain Women (played by Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, and Lily Gladstone). Based on Maile Meloy's short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It; directed by and adapted for the big screen by Kelly Reichardt; produced b

Our first #ListofSix: 6 Books That Should Be Made Into Movies. At 6:22: in honor of Tatiana Maslany's well-deserved Emmy win, Screen Thoughts finally takes a look at Orphan Black. Hollister & O'Toole then split their realities, taking independent looks at 2 movies based on true stories: at 10:05, Christine (starring Rebecca Hall as troubled 1970s TV reporter Christine Chubbuck) and at 15:38, Denial (Rachel Weisz as historian Deborah Lipstadt - doing battle with a Holocaust denier). At 21:58, a film that ignited a firestorm: a look at the Brazilian film Aquarius, starring Sonia Braga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices