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 Legend of Ochi
On the remote island of Carpathia, the farm folk are forced to contended with the encroaching modernization as more and more people flock to their tranquil setting. As houses are built, the Ochi, venomous and blood hungry creatures, are forced from their homes and cause even more strife on the islanders. Yuri (Helena Zengel), a…
Saturday Night
It is 90 minutes to show time as the scrappy young cast of no-name comedians rally behind Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) in Studio 8H ahead of the first airing of Saturday Night Live. Lorne, trying to balance the needs of the cast and crew, also must answer to Dick Ebersol (Cooper Hoffman), a liaison between…
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
While filming an episode for her paranormal tv show, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) races off stage when she thinks she saw Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) in the audience. Catching her breath in her dressing room, she checks her phone and learns that her father has recently passed. Lydia and her mother, Delia (Catherine O’Hara), pick up…
Kinds of Kindness
Robert (Jesse Plemons) eagerly follows every order from his boss, Raymond (Willem Dafoe), until Raymond asks Robert to crash his car into a man referred to only as R.M.F. (Yorgos Stefanakos), killing him. Daniel’s (also Jesse Plemons) wife, Liz (Emma Stone) has been missing and presumed dead on a research trip to a remote island. …
Poor Things
Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef) is a medical student of Dr. Goodwin “God” Baxter (Willem Dafoe), selected by the doctor for a special assignment: looking after his daughter, Bella (Emma Stone). The young woman had suffered an accident and is in the process of rebuilding her mental and physical abilities. Max and Bella grow very close…
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…
Inside
Nemo (Willem Dafoe) enters an elaborately manicured, high-rise apartment of a wealthy artist with only two things on his mind; snag the self-portrait worth millions and escape. When his accomplice, Number 3 (Andrew Blumenthal) triggers the alarm system in an attempt to disarm it for Nemo’s exit, he finds himself stranded and alone. Minutes, turn…
The Northman
After witnessing the assassination of his father, King Aurvandil War-Raven (Ethan Hawke), young Amleth (Oscar Novak) runs back to town only to find his murderous uncle Fjölnir the Brotherless (Claes Bang) taking his mother, Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), to be his queen next to him on his usurped throne of the 9th century Viking Village. The…
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