THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME


JULY 4–7 & 10, 2025
DAILY (except Tuesday & Wednesday) AT 6:20

JULY 11–17, 2025
DAILY AT 6:20




Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins. 1950. Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda (Benicio del Toro), enigmatic industrialist, one of the richest men in Europe, survives another attempt on his life (his sixth plane crash). Korda's wide-ranging, wildly complex, and ruthless business practices have made him an enemy to not just rival enterprises but also governments of every ideology across the globe – and a target for assassins.

Now he is in the final stages of a decades-long, career-defining project (Korda Land and Sea Phoenician Infrastructure Scheme), the expansive exploitation of a potentially-rich/long-dormant region. The risk to his personal capital has become incalculable. The threats to his life are ongoing. He chooses this moment to appoint and prepare a successor: his twenty-year-old estranged daughter Lies (currently, a nun).

With personal tutor Bjorn (Michael Cera) in tow, Zsa-zsa and Lies sweep across Modern Greater Independent Phoenicia meeting their assorted partners on a mission to close The Gap (a rapidly expanding financial shortfall) which Zsa-zsa quantifies as: "Everything we got – plus a little bit more."

Along the way: Lies investigates the unsolved murder, a decade earlier, of Zsa-zsa's first wife (her mother). Exhilarating and hilarious, a work of pure pleasure, but also strikingly moving as a father and daughter find each other.

Directed by Wes Anderson
Rated PG-13
Running time 1h 41m
THE LIFE OF CHUCK


JULY 4–17, 2025
DAILY AT 4:00




From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes THE LIFE OF CHUCK, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This powerful tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. Critics call the film "a life-affirming masterpiece" and "a stunning celebration of the moments that make life worth living."

Directed by Mike Flanagan
Rated R
Running time 1h 51m








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