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1 week ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Christopher McQuarrie helms this part 2 to Dead Reckoning (2023), where Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Missions Force must save the world from the artificial intelligence known as the Entity, which is taking control of the world’s nuclear weapons. As soon as the Entity is able to move from the Internet to its hiding place—a secure digital bunker in South Africa—it will launch a nuclear Armageddon.
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2 weeks ago | 
santamariasun.com | Glen Starkey |Anna Starkey
Co-writers-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel adopt Sigrid Nunez’ 2018 National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend, for the big screen. After the death of her friend and mentor, Walter (Bill Murray), solitary writer Iris (Naomi Watts) reluctantly agrees to temporarily adopt his Great Dane, Apollo (Bing), believing she’ll soon rehome him. Instead, she begins to bond with the dog and come to terms with her own past. (119 min.)Glen: Bill Murray and a dog? Say no more. I’m in.
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3 weeks ago | 
santamariasun.com | Glen Starkey |Anna Starkey
Based on writer-director-actor Alan Alda’s 1981 film of the same name, this miniseries follows three couples—Jack (Will Forte) and Kate (Tina Fey), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani)—who vacation together every season. Their group dynamics change, however, when one couple splits, and the husband starts bringing a younger woman (Erika Henningsen as Ginny) on subsequent trips. (eight 27- to 35-min.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank, Paper Towns, Beef) directs this superhero story about Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), and later Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who team up to fight rogue CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and end her illegal activities. (126 min.)Glen: For a superhero flick, Thunderbolts has a lot on its mind.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
In this sequel to The Accountant (2016), both director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Pride and Glory) and writer Bill Dubuque (The Judge, A Family Man) return with this new story about Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), an autistic math savant who also happens to have deadly combat skills. He once again employs his brilliant mind and illegal methods to discover who’s behind the murder of former Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Deputy Chief Ray King (J. K.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Glen Starkey |Anna Starkey
Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair; Cyrus; Jeff, Who Lives at Home) directs this screenplay cowritten with Michael Strassner about Cliff (played by Strassner), a six-months-sober former improv comedian whose Christmas Eve cracked tooth leads him to Dr. Didi Dahl, D.D.S. (Liz Larsen) and a May/December romance as they explore Baltimore over one night. (100 min.)Glen: Cliff is struggling to find his footing. He just earned his six-month Alcoholics Anonymous chip, but his life feels offtrack.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Glen Starkey |Anna Starkey
James Hawes (One Life) directs this vigilante spy thriller about Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), a CIA cryptographer who defies his superiors to avenge the death of his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) in a London terrorist attack. (123 min.)Glen: This marks the second time Robert Littell’s 1981 novel has been adapted for the big screen, the first being a 1981 Canadian film starring John Savage.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Glen Starkey |Anna Starkey
Writer Paul William Davies—inspired by journalist Kate Anderson Brower’s 2016 book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House—created this TV miniseries about the innerworkings of the U.S. president’s living quarters in the White House. At the center of Davies’ story is a mystery surrounding the death of Chief Usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito), who manages the residence’s extensive staff. Was it suicide or murder?
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2 months ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
In his feature-length debut, writer-director Alex Scharfman helms this horror comedy about Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his teenage daughter, Ridley (Jenna Ortega), who accidently hit a unicorn on their way to Elliot’s boss’ wilderness retreat. (107 min.)Glen: Lots of little kids love pastel unicorns and their rainbow-colored mane and tail, glittering flanks, and magical golden horns, but do not bring your adorable little cherubs to this film unless you want to scar them for life.
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2 months ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Barry Levinson (Diner; The Natural; Rain Man; Bugsy; Good Morning, Vietnam) directs this script by Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas, Casino) about two New York crime bosses—Frank Costello and Vito Genovese (both played by Robert De Niro)—whose childhood friendship and successful Prohibition liquor operations in the ’20s and ’30s eventually devolve into open conflict in the ’50s. (120 min.)Glen: In the grand scheme of great crime dramas, this is an also-ran.
