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Natalie Portman the new Thor! Progress! Hollister.

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Looks like a no brainer. So many families, so many lies. We all can relate.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-farewell-lulu-wang-directed-the-best-movie-of-the-year-its-all-a-lie?ref=scroll

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Jackie

At 9:45: Natalie Portman takes on an icon in Pablo Larraín's Jackie. 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). ​ History belongs to those who preserve it - let us know your thoughts: screenthoughts@gmail.com.

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Remembering Carrie Fisher; La La Land

Remembering the enormously talented 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. ​ And O'Toole would like to know:  is it just her, or does the song "The Fools Who Dream" remind you of "The Rainbow Connection"?

Let us know your thoughts: screenthoughts@gmail.com.

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Elle; L'avenir (Things to Come); Fences

At 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.

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.

25:51: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis reprise their 2010 Tony-winning roles in August Wilson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fences.

Let the awards season begin!

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Manchester by the Sea; Miss Sloane

#ListOfSix:  Book to Screen Adaptations.

At 6:58:  Congrats to YouTube sensation Connor Hines - his hit web series Local Attraction is now available on MyLifetime.com.

At 8:20:  the buzz around Manchester by the Sea. Written & directed by Kenneth Lonergan; starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams (Certain Women), Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, and Gretchen Mol (Mozart in the Jungle). Discover which of us thought it was pure genius; and which of us thought it was a cinematic slow-swinging sledgehammer.

At 29:31:  Miss Sloane, reteaming director John Madden (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) 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).

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Allied; This is Us

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).

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

It's been a long 9 years since we last visited Stars Hollow.

This week's #ListofSix pays tribute: Our 6 favorite scenes from the original Gilmore Girls series (2000-2007). ​ At 6:54:  the much-anticipated revival:  Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a 4-part series sponsored by Netflix. To quote Carole King:  Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall! ​ Starring Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop, and Alexis Bledel as the storied Gilmore matriline. Written and created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. ​ Buskers & Burning Questions. Trivia & Tributes. ​ The coffee's on - hit play and... where you lead, we will follow. Anywhere that you tell us to.

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Arrival; Nocturnal Animals

#ListOfSix: in time for just after Thanksgiving*, our 6 favorite holiday movies. ​ At 6:40: guess which hit movie has inspired a new Broadway show. At 7:35: hear how J.D. Salinger once came to Hollister's rescue; Hollister reviews Coming Through the Rye. ​ Then, it's Amy Adams week - we take a look at not just one, but 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). ​ *We are grateful to all our listeners - and to all the artists who bring it!

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Good Behavior

Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2; The Hollars) reveals which actor has influenced her the most - live on her first book tour: #ScrappyLittleNobody.

At 2:58: This week's #ListofSix: 6 Favorite Songs from Movies.

9:50: It only took a quarter of a century, but 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: Hollywood made in China? Spielberg's collaboration with Alibaba.

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The Crown

This week's #ListofSix: Our 6 Favorite Courtroom Movies (with 2 Honorable Mentions). ​ At 10:02: A Royal Affair indeed: the lavish new Netflix series The Crown. Queen Elizabeth's pocketbook might be notoriously empty, but Netflix found $130MM to recreate QE2's world - well worth every penny. ​ Starring Claire Foy (The Lady in the Van) as QE2; Matt Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) as Prince Philip, and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill. Written and created by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen). Two of the 10 episodes directed by Julian Jarrold (A Royal Night Out). ​ At this rate, the sun will never set on the Netflix empire - God save the TV!

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Certain Women; Black Mirror; Inferno

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 latest Dan Brown adaptation: Inferno, starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, and Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen).

At 21:30 Certain Women - played by Kristen Stewart (Still Alice; Café Society), 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 by Todd Haynes (Carol). ​ Additional shout-outs to Orphan Black, Westworld, and Isabelle Huppert.

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Orphan Black; Christine; Denial; Aquarius

Our first #ListofSix: 6 Books That Should Be Made Into Movies.

At 6:22: in honor of her well-deserved Emmy win, Screen Thoughts finally takes a look at Orphan Black, starring Tatiana Maslany (Woman in Gold) as Sarah/Alison/Cosima/Helena/Rachel and M.K., Krystal. ​ 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, referenced in our Network podcast. Also starring Tracy Letts (Divorce, Indignation). ​ And at 15:38, Denial, with Rachel Weisz (The Light Between Oceans) as historian Deborah Lipstadt - doing battle with a Holocaust denier. Also starring Tom Wilkinson (Selma, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). You'll never guess which other feature Mick Jackson has directed (but Hollister is only too happy to tell you).

At 21:58, a film that ignited a firestorm: a look at the Brazilian film Aquarius, starring the legendary Sonia Braga in her native tongue.

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The Accountant; Divorce

Why Idris Elba spent the night in prison; which series was voted #1 of all time in Australia; and what the Boston Book Festival had to teach us about sympathetic characters.

At 4:51, Screen Thoughts audits the latest Ben Affleck vehicle: The Accountant. Did the assets outweigh the liabilities? Directed by Gavin O'Connor (Jane Got a Gun); also starring J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2).

At 15:42, Sarah Jessica Parker's return to HBO in Divorce. Created by Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe); also starring Thomas Haden Church, Tracy Letts (Indignation); and Molly Shannon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl).

Podcast extras include an excerpt of SJP's interview with Alec Baldwin (whom HBO had once considered for the role of Mr. Big) and a tip on the proper way to display a Jackson Pollock.

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The Girl on the Train; The Dressmaker

2 movies based on bestselling novels; 2 women who get off trains, suspected of murder.

At 5:00: the much-anticipated The Girl on the Train; novel by Paula Hawkins; film directed by Tate Taylor (The Help), starring Emily Blunt (Sicario), Justin Theroux, and Rebecca Ferguson (Florence Foster Jenkins).

O'Toole can't help but make comparisons to Gone Girl. ​ At 24:05: Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker - written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (who calls the film Unforgiven but with a sewing machine and haute couture). ​ Starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, and Liam Hemsworth. ​ Don't miss Hollister's insightful reference to her favorite movie: Pollyanna.

Revenge is back in fashion.

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East Side Sushi; Crisis in Six Scenes

Hollister kicks off this podcast with more Fall T.V. pilots (ABC's Designated Survivor; OWN's Queen Sugar), and continues her sushi kick with East Side Sushi - written and directed by Anthony Lucero, about a Latina woman who dreams of becoming a sushi chef.

As if his recent - and 46th - film (Café Society) were not enough, Hollister & O'Toole then take a look at Woody Allen's first foray into television: Amazon's Crisis in Six Scenes. Also starring 2x-Oscar nominee and comic legend Elaine May, as well as Miley Cyrus, Joy Behar, and John Magaro. ​

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Bridget Jone’s Baby, The Hollars

Dear Diary, ​ 15 years since the first installment (terrifying slide into immortality), 3 books (Yesssssss!), 3 movies (v.g.), 4 Oscar-winning actors (v.v.g). Irresistible Sex Goddess facing geriatric pregnancy (what is the point?), but with convincing British accent. Hurrah!  

Our favorite Singleton is back In Bridget Jones's Baby. Starring Oscar winners Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, and Jim Broadbent (London Spy) - along with Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) and Gemma Jones. ​ Next up in Hollister & O'Toole's look at comedic dysfunction: The Hollars - directed by and starring John Krasinski, along with Margo Martindale (The Good Wife), Richard Jenkins, Sharito Copley, and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2). ​ Find out why O'Toole thinks John Krasinski is the perfect man, and which Margo Martindale role is Hollister's favorite.

And music to our ears: podcast cameos by Adele (yet another Oscar winner!) and Josh Groban.