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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Co-directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen bring Lars Jacobson’s action comedy to the screen about Nathan “Nate” Caine (Jack Quaid), an introverted bank executive suffering from congenital insensitivity to pain. He uses his rare condition to his advantage when he pursues a group of bank robbers who in the course of a theft kidnapped bank teller Sherry (Amber Midthunder), the girl of Nate’s dreams. (110 min.)Glen: Move over, Bob Odenkirk in Nobody (2021). Stand aside, Ke Huy Quan in Love Hurts (2025).
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2 months ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Writer-director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer, The Host) adapts Ashton Edward’s 2022 sci-fi novel Mickey7 to the big screen, with Robert Pattinson as Mickey 17, an “expendable” clone worker whose body can be regrown after he dies, with his memories largely intact. On a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet, he experiences multiple deaths … until something goes wrong. (137 min.)Glen: This delicious satire skewers capitalism, colonialism, wealth inequity, class warfare, racism, and more.
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2 months ago | 
santamariasun.com | Anna Starkey |Glen Starkey
Alex Parkinson directs this story he co-wrote with Mitchell LaFortune and David Brooks based on his 2019 documentary he co-directed with Richard da Costa about a serious 2012 diving accident when saturation diver Chris Lemons’ (Finn Cole) umbilical cable severed, trapping him 330 feet under the sea without heat or light, and only a small amount of breathing gas in his backup tank.
