The Phoenician Scheme

After surviving yet another attempt on his life, Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) makes arrangements with his estranged daughter, Liesel (Mia Threapleton), who is days away from taking her novitiate vows, to inherit his sprawling business venture should he meet an untimely demise.  He gives to her the plans that would revitalize Phoenicia, allowing the…

Asteroid City

Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) accompanies his young son Woodrow (Jake Ryan) to Asteroid City for the Junior Stargazers convention where his science project is in contest for the top scholarship prize.  One evening, during a ceremony led by Dr. Hickenlooper (Tilda Swinton) to view an astrological phenomenon, an alien spaceship lands and an Alien (Jeff…

West Side Story

The Jets and the Sharks.  Two rival gangs, one Polish and the other Puerto Rican, rule the streets of New York City.  They are rivals to each other but with a shared enemy of the state and new white money looking to push them out of their homes and jobs.  Amidst the looming threat of inevitable evection, Tony…