Well, it's holiday/Oscar season, but still with room for some oddities.
- Is Kraven The Hunter the last stand of the Venom-verse? It offers Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a younger Kraven rebelling against his mobster father (Russell Crowe) and working as a feared assassin rather than a middle-aged big game hunter who considers Spider-Man the most fascinating game of all. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema & Imax Laser), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Also opening is The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, an anime prequel directed by one of the guys behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the Cyborg:009 revivals. Not bad, although I'm not sure the folks who loved Peter Jackson's version are into something this old-school. It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser).
Day of the Fight, a drama about a man recently out of prison attempting to resume his boxing career, plays Boston Common and has a killer list of supporting guys (Ron Perlman, Steve Buscemi, and Joe Pesci). 1970s-set thriller The Man in the White Van opens at Boston Common and South Bay.
Fresh Pond has matinees of The Polar Express all week. Arsenal Yards has The Holiday Friday to Sunday.
The Imax rerelease of Interstellar expands from Jordan's Furniture to South Bay and Assembly Row, as if there weren't already enough vying for the Imax screens! Queer, already playing the Coolidge, Kendall Square, and Boston Common, expands to The Somerville Theatre and Assembly Row.
Homestead, an Angel Studios production about conflict on a compound after a nuclear exchange, opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay on Wednesday, though it also appears to be a TV series pilot.
Animated music video collection Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Interstella 5555, plays the Seatport Friday to Sunday, Boston Common Friday & Saturday, the Coolidge on Saturday, and the Kendall on Sunday. K-pop concert film RM: Right People, Wrong Time plays Arsenal Yards Friday to Sunday, plus Boston Common, Assembly Row on Saturday. Arsenal Yards has a live viewing of Seventeen [Right Here] World Tour in Japan on Saturday. NCT Dream Mystery Lab: Dream()Scape plays Boston Common on Saturday. André Rieu's Christmas Concert plays South Bay and Assembly Row on Saturday. Babymetal: Legend-43 The Movie plays Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Sunday.
70th Anniversary shows of White Christmas play Boston Common, South Bay, and Arsenal Yards on Sunday & Monday; Boston Common also has the 1974 Black Christmas on Sunday. There's an AMC Screen Unseen show on Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row, and an Early Access show of A Complete Unknown on Wednesday at Assembly Row (Imax Laser). Some of the early Dolby Cinema screenings of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Thursday are "Fan Event" shows.
- The Coolidge Corner Theatre picks up Porcelain War, a documentary about two Ukrainian artists who make whimsical porcelain figures, with whimsy simultaneously very difficult and absolutely necessary when your country is invaded. One Sunday afternoon show is a special "Panorama" presentation, with director Slava Leontyev and subject Anya Stasenko (with Frodo the dog) participating in a post-film discussion.
Midnight shows at the Coolidge this weekend are Queen of the Damned on 35mm Friday and Die Hard on Saturday. There's a Kids' Show of the Howard/Carrey How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Saturday morning, a Goethe-Institut presentation of Woodland early Sunday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is The Shop Around the Corner. Wednesday has two "Dracula Lives" shows, with Jozef van Wissem performing a live score to the original Nosferatu at 7pm and Only Lovers Left Alive at 9pm. Thursday offers two Christmas-adjacent movies, with Love Actually the "Rewind!" show at 7pm and Edward Scissorhands the cult classic at 9:30.
- The End, a post-apocalyptic musical starring George McaKay as a boy raised in a bunker by parents (Tilda Swinton & Michael Shannon) who maintain a sort of stasis until a young woman (Moses Ingram) somehow arrives from the outside world, opens at Landmark Kendall Square and Boston Common.
A Christmas Story is the Tuesday Retro Replay and Kendall Square. On Wednesday, they open Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl two weeks before it is pulled into the Netflix vortex. It's going to be strange having someone other than Peter Sallis voice Wallace, but, hey, I'll try and keep an open mind.
- Thai horror sequel Death Whisperer 2 opens at Causeway Street. Vietnamese horror-comedy Betting With Ghost opens at South Bay.
Apple Fresh Pond has Nepali comedy Tel Visa, about a family that has immigrated to the US, through Sunday. Saturday afternoon, they are presenting Haunted Diaries, a 90-minute compilation of what bills itself as "The World's First Silent Web Series", which appears to be produced by the local Desi community and a presentation of The Independent Indian Film Festival of Boston, although there's nothing on their website about it. For big releases, Telugu action film Pushpa Part 2: The Rule continues at Fresh Pond (telugu & Hindi) and Boston Common.
Hong Kong's Last Dance and Mainland China's Her Story both continue at Causeway Street.
Anime A Silent Voice returns to Boston Common and Assembly Row for dubbed shows on Sunday and subtitled ones on Monday.
- The Brattle Theatre has their annual screenings of It's a Wonderful Life, playing on 35mm film for the Friday Film Matinee and from a DCP Saturday to Monday. They also have a new restoration of the 1974 Black Christmas playing later from Friday to Monday, and kick off an "Unsilent Nights" series with Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Tuesday and RRR on Thursday.
- The Seaport Alamo has The Lighthouse on Friday & Saturday, Pride & Prejudice Saturday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, the 1974 The Great Gatsby on Saturday, the 1974 Black Christmas Saturday & Tuesday, a Dylan dress-up preview of A Complete Unknown on Monday, Querelle on Monday, The Conversation on Tuesday & Wednesday, and an advanced screening of Babygirl on Wednesday.
- The Harvard Film Archive closes the semester with Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. Pather Panchali plays on 35mm film Friday and Sunday; Aparajito is projected from a DCP Saturday & Sunday; and The World of Apu is on 35mm film Saturday & Monday.
- The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show on Friday with Wulfer, Exit 18, and Mingko, plus visuals by Coolpics.biz.
- The Lexington Venue has WIcked, A Real Pain, and Conclave all week except Monday. Short "Star in the Night" plays Saturday & Sunday, with free popcorn for those who come with canned goods and unwrapped toys and free admission for everyone.
The West Newton Cinema has documentary short "How Horses Heal" on Tuesday evening, with a post-film panel discussion including local advocates and specialists in equine therapy, with the proceeds going to Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy. On Thursday, they have a "Ty Burr's Movie Club" presentation of Paterson. Otherwise, they stick with last week's lineup of Bird, Moana 2, Gladiator II (no show Thursday), Wicked, A Real Pain, Small Things Like These, and Conclave (no show Thursday).
The Luna Theater has Heretic on Friday/Saturday, >Ghost Cat Anzu on Saturday, White Christmas on Sunday, and a Weirdo Wednesday show.
Cinema Salem has Flow, Y2K, Moana 2, and WIcked through Monday. The '74 Black Christmas plays Friday, with the '06 remake on Saturday, and a holiday Whodunnit Watch Party on Wednesday.
If you can make it out to Danvers, Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, with Richard Gere as a man who fled north rather than go to Vietnam, is playing at the Liberty Tree Mall.
Man, I wish the Alamo wasn't so boring, because having a monthly membership there really doesn't provide much of a release valve when the AMCs have more than 3 movies I want to see. I've got to catch up on the HK/China stuff and
The Return, there's
The Day of the Fight and
Interstellar, and all they can help me with at this point is
Kraven. Plus,
Porcelain War at the Coolidge and
Wallace & Gromit at the Kendall.
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