Holiday in Santa Fe

  • Title: Holiday in Santa Fe
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In typical romcom holiday style, we get big city executive Belinda Sawyer (Emeraude Toubia) heading west to broker a deal for her company to buy out a small local business in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One there, Belinda is charmed by the oldest son Tony (Mario Lopez) and their buiness while the rest of the family is far more unsure about giving up their autonomy.

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The Tale of Silyan

  • Title: The Tale of Silyan
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Highlighting the struggles of farmers in Macedonia, director Tamara Kotevska‘s film showcases Nikola and his family unable to make a profit on one of the farm’s best harvests and unable to sell the farm for more than a fraction of its worth due to new governmental policies. After his daughter and her family move away, and Nikola’s wife goes with them to help with the children, Nikola finds himself alone. Needing money, he takes a job at the local landfill where he discovers and injured stork who he adopts and nurses back to health helping soothe his loneliness.

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Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials

  • Title: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
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Breaking up the Agatha Christie novel into a three-episode series, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials casts Mia McKenna-Bruce as Lady Eileen Brent, Bundle to her friends, who takes it upon herself to solve a murder others are all too willing to sweep under the rug. Over the course of her investigation, Bundle will uncover a plot to steal a formula to strengthen metal and the existence of a secret society both of which appear linked to the sudden death of Bundle’s friend.

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No Other Choice

  • Title: No Other Choice
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Director Park Chan-wook‘s dark comedy offers an unusual solution to a man’s struggle to find a job in modern times. We’re introduced to Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a valued long-time employee of a paper-making company who loses his position after an American buyout and automation make his job obsolete. After struggling to find a new job for months, while taking various retail jobs that don’t allow the family to keep the same lifestyle, Man-su changes his tactics and begins investigating his most likely competition with plans to literally eliminate the competition.

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Thunderheart

  • Title: Thunderheart
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Largely forgotten, the 1992 thriller set on a South Dakota Native American reservation casts Val Kilmer as FBI Agent Ray Levoi assigned to the case for his Sioux lineage which works as PR move for the FBI (even if he doesn’t appear Native American and has spent most of his life shunning that heritage). Kilmer, who had some Native American ancestry on his father’s side, delivers a strong performance of a man struggling to find truth where the only ones talking to him are almost certainly lying.

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