Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 26 July 2024 - 1 August 2024

Still in MTL, but whatever; the Marvel thing will still be playing when I get home.

• The big release is obviously Deadpool & Wolverine, with Ryan Reynolds welcoming Special Guest Star Hugh Jackman as a Wolverine from somewhere in the multiverse whom he tries to recruit to fight Cassandra Nova. It's at the Somerville, Fresh Pond, The Embassy, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax 2D/Dolby Cinema/RealD 3D/Spanish subs/Mandarin subs), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including RealD 3D/Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax 2D & 3D/Dolby Cinema/RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax 2D & 3D/Dolby Cinema/RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Counterprogramming is The Fabulous Four, the latest comedy with a group of older women pulled back together after some time apart; this time it is Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as bridesmaids for Bette Midler, their college friend. It's at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  The Beast Within arrives at Boston Common for limited shows fresh from Fantasia; it stars Kit Harrington as a father whose lycanthropy is not the only thing straining his family.
  
  If you get up early - it is scheduled for 10:10am matinees, just least-effort four-walling - you can catch The Girl in the Pool at Fresh Pond; it stars Freddie Prinze Jr. as a family man who has to hide his mistress's corpse right before a surprise birthday party. Also in the credits: Monica Potter and Kevin Pollak.
  
  The Olympic Opening Ceremonies will be presented on-screen at Boston Common (Imax Xenon), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) on Friday, with South Bay, Assembly Row presenting other events on regular screens there throughout the week. Fantasy comedy Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps (starring Greg Steinbruner & Tami Stronach but with a noteworthy set of guest stars/voice actors) plays Sunday and Tuesday at Boston Common. Migration is the matinee show at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay Monday & Wednesday. Blackpink World Tour: Born Pink plays Boston Common, Assembly Row on Wednesday. There's a "Premiere Event" for The Duel at Boston Common, Assembly Row on Wednesday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets maybe the best film from this year's Independent Film Festival Boston, Agnieszka Holland's absurd and tragic film about refugees pushed between Belarus and Poland Green Border.
  
  They also bring back Free LSD, which had a special screening last week, for midnight shows on Friday & Saturday; regular midnights are a 35mm print of Bride of Chucky on Friday and Jennifer's Body on Saturday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Total Recall, the final "Godzilla vs the Coolidge" battle is Terror of Mechagodzilla on Tuesday - well, sort of, in that they will also be hauling a 35mm projector to the Greenway for an outdoor Science on Screen presentation of Godzilla 2000 - and Sean Wang will be present for Thursday night's screenings of IFFBoston alum Didi before it opens wide next Friday.
  
  Boston Jewish Film will be screening The World Is Not My Own at the Coolidge on Wednesday, with a post-screening conversation, but you have to go to BJF's site for ticketing, as opposed to the Coolidge's.
• The Brattle Theatre opens Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger for a limited run from Friday to Monday; the documentary has Martin Scorsese showing the audience what made the pair some of the most important directors in cinema. You can also see it illustrated with The Red Shoes, playing Friday & Sunday afternoons and Black Narcissus on Saturday. They also have I Saw the TV Glow for late-ish shows Friday to Sunday.
  
  The Columbia Musicals this week are big ones, with Funny Girl on Monday and Oliver! on Tuesday. Summer of Sofia continues with a 35mm print of Coppola's remake of The Beguiled on Wednesday while Cruel Summer offers a double feature of Sorcerer & Wake in Fright on Thursday.
• Tamil action movie Raayan opens at Apple Fresh Pond and Boston Common this weekend. Bad Newz is held over at both locations.
• Midnight Special at the The Somerville Theatre this Saturday is a 35mm print of They Live; Attack of the B-Movies on Sunday is a twin bill of Bride of the Gorilla & The Killer Shrews.
  
  The Capitol picks up Kinds of Kindness and Janet Planet as they give way to Deadpool at the Somerville. The summer vacation matinee this week is Shrek 2.
• The Seaport Selects show at The Seaport Alamo this weekend is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse. There's a preview of Kneecap with a livestreamed Q&A after on Monday, with '84 time capsule screenings of Blood Simple Monday and Beverly Hills Cop on Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square is starting to do the surprise previews branded as "Landmark First Look", with the first Boston-area one on Monday. They also wrap the summer music series on Tuesday with Abba: The Movie
• The Boston French Film Festival continues at The Museum of Fine Arts with Little Girl Blue.(Friday), The Goldman Case (Friday), The Nature of Love (Saturday), The Taste of Things (Saturday), and All to Play For (Sunday).
• The Regent Theatre has a Music Movies & More show on Wednesday with documentary Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande.
• The Museum of Science has Twisters Friday and Saturday evenings into August.
• The Lexington Venue has Widow Clicquot, Touch, and Thelma and is open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Dead Pool & Wolverine, holding over Widow Clicquot, Despicable Me 4, Thelma, and Inside Out 2.
  
  The Luna Theater has Robot Dreams (Friday/Saturday), Tuesday (Saturday), Janet Planet (Saturday), Suburbia (Sunday), and a Weirdo Wednesday Show.
  
  Cinema Salem has Deadpool & Wolverine, Twisters, Despicable Me 4, and Longlegs from Friday through Monday. The Friday Night Light show is Long Weekend, The Iron Giant plays Saturday and Sunday afternoon, and there's a Whodunnit Watch Party on Wednesday evening.
• Outdoor films on the Joe's Free Films calendar this week are Wonka (Friday at Boynton Yards), Elemental (Saturday at the Prudential Center), The Little Mermaid (Wednesday at Greene-Rose Heritage Park in Cambridge), The Goonies (Wednesday at the Charleston Navy Yard), Godzilla 2000 (Wednesday at the Greenway), Finding Dory (Thursday at Seven Hills Park), Frozen (Thursday at The LOT in Dorchester), and Home Alone (Thursday at Boston Landing).

I'm pretty sure that if a hole somehow develops in my Fantasia schedule this week, I'll do something else, but we're talking 25 or so movies here!