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…
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The Boys in the Boat
Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) has two weeks to come up with the remaining balance of his tuition bill or he will be kicked out of the University of Washington. He tries out for the school rowing team which would provide him with a stipend to help make ends meet, but he will need to be…
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…
The Lost King
Philippa (Sally Hawkins) is in a rut. She is overlooked at work, and at home, she and her soon-to-be ex-husband, John (Steve Coogan), are trying to navigate joint custody of their two sons, Raife (Benjamin Scanlan) and Max (Adam Robb). After attending a performance of William Shakespeare’s Richard III of questionable historic accuracy, Philippa becomes…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Geppetto (David Bradley), an aged woodcarver, has fallen into a deep depression when his son, Carlo (Gregory Mann), was lost after a missile was dropped on their small Italian town. One night, angry and drunk, he carves a puppet in Carlo’s likeness, and while the old man is asleep, his home is visited by a…
The Marquee Topic 