Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 7 March 2025 - 13 March 2024

Heads up - it looks like they're completing work on the upgraded Imax screen at Boston Common next week, and maybe upgrading the rest, because the apps show only a handful of screens in use on Monday and Wednesday and nothing playing Tuesday and Thursday. Also, there are like three movies that should be playing in 3D this weekend that aren't. C'mon, folks, give me this.

• Well, maybe not big sci-fi satire Mickey 17, the latest from Bong Joon-ho, and one which Warner Brothers has apparently been screwing around with the release date for months (last year to January to April to March), with Robert Pattinson as a working-class guy who signs up to be an "expendable" who will be sent into perilous situations in space to be killed and recloned. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Museum of Science (Omnimax on Fridays/Saturdays), Jordan's Furniture (Imax), the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  In the Lost Lands should definitely be 3D, though; with Paul W.S. Anderson directing Milla Jovovich and Dave Batista in an adventure based on a George R.R. Martin story about a quest into the middle of a forbidden kingdom. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay.
  
  Queen of the Ring features Emily Bett Rickards as a woman who broke into pro wrestling when such a thing was unheard of. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  Thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen has a fine horror movie scenario, with Geoffrey Rush as a man who recently suffered a stroke discovering that one of the other patients (John Lithgow) appears to be a torturing psychopath. It's at Boston Common, the Seaport, and South Bay.
  
  Clive Barker is a producer and "from the mind of" credit on Night of the Zoopocalypse, an animated zombie-animal adventure where a wolf voiced by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and a mountain lion voiced by David Harbour have to stop the virus's spread. It's at Fresh Pond and South Bay.
  
  Also opening is Rule Breakers, a drama about Afghani girls attempting to get an education. It plays at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  There are early-access shows of Novocaine at Boston Common, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill on Saturday; there's also a "Screen Unseen" mystery preview on Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; Black Bag has a Dolby Cinema preview on Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• In addition to Mickey 17 and re-opening Best Picture winner Anora, The Coolidge Corner Theatre picks up Universal Language, where the cities of Winnipeg and Tehran seemingly overlap in a group of overlapping stories. It also plays Boston Common.
  
  March is a month of monkey midnight movies at the Coolidge, with George Romero's Monkey Shines on Friday and the 1932 version of Murders in the Rue Morgue with Bela Lugosi on Saturday, both on 35mm. They also show Eraserhead at midnight on Saturday. At the other end of the spectrum, there's a Kids' Show of Paddington on Saturday morning. "Totally Trailblazers" features a 35mm print of Fast Times at Ridgemont High on Sunday afternoon and Smithereens with a recorded introduction by director Susan Seidelman on Tuesday. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is the 35mm Big Screen Classic on Monday, there's Open Screen on Tuesday, and a Cinema Jukebox show of documentary Lifers: A Local H Movie with filmmaker and lead singer Scott Lucas on-hand for a performance and a Q&A on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square opens Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils, which stars Amanda Seyfried as a theater director trying to remount an opera by her mentor with important changes, based on a production of Egoyan's. They also have There's Still Tomorrow, starring director Paola Cortellesi as a woman in post-war Rome looking for a better life, a movie that was a box-office sensation and award winner in Italy.
  
  The Edgar Wright series at the Kendall continues with Hot Fuzz on Tuesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond Malayalam action movie Officer on Duty on Friday. A re-release of 2013's Telugu comedy-drama Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu plays Friday night, Marathi comedy ChikiChiki BooboomBoom Saturday afternoon, and Bengali mystery Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei on Sunday afternoon. Chhaava continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common and Dragon continues at Fresh Pond and Causeway Street, and Superboys of Malegaon at the West Newton.
  
  The Accidental Getaway Driver, a thriller about an elderly cab driver carjacked by escaped convicts with a mostly Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American cast, opens at South Bay. Vietnamese drama The Real Sister continues there as well.
  
  Ne Zha 2 continues shows at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), South Bay, and Assembly Row (including RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards . Detective Chinatown 1900 continues at Causeway Street.
  
  Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning continues at Boston Common; there's also a "Gundam Fest" screening of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack on Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row.
• The Brattle Theatre has a weekend of "True Tales of Wonder Women", with Harriet and Wild Nights with Emily on Friday; Forever a Woman, Silkwood (35mm and featuring an intro and post-film discussion), and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women on Saturday; Thousand Pieces of Gold, Perspolis (35mm), and Frida on Sunday. Sunday also features and RPM Fest Presentation, "Lost and Found: Lei Lei", with seven of her short films. I think I saw an installation she did in Sydney, which was pretty neat.
  
  Frederick Wiseman films this week are Law and Order & Basic Training on Monday and Canal Zone on Tuesday, with no German queer cinema this week. There's a special presentation of James Carson's Cabin Music on Wednesday, with performance and Q&A by the filmmaker and musician afterward. On Thursday they begin a Bruce Willis series with The Sixth Sense & Unbreakable, the former on 35mm film.
• The Oscar shorts stick around an extra week with Animated shorts at the Coolidge, The ICA (Sunday), Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport; Live-Action shorts at the Coolidge, the ICA (Sunday), Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport; plus Documentary at the Coolidge.
• The Seaport Alamo has some David Lynch shows, with Blue Velvet Friday/Saturday/Monday and Eraserhead Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? plays Friday to Monday.
• The Somerville Theatre and IFFBoston partner for "March Music Madness", with The Last Waltz (4k) on Friday, Prince: Sign 'O' the Times on 35mm Tuesday. They also get to be one of the first to project a 35mm print of Hundreds of Beavers, late Friday and at midnight on Saturday, and a return engagement of another cult film, Dinner in America, on Wednesday and Thursday. On top of that, there's a free screening of Made in Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon, a three-plus hour journey through a hundred years of movies shot in the Commonwealth, with filmmakers Adam Roffman and Vatche Arabian on hand.
  
  The Capitol Theatre plays host to the Lois Weber Film Festival on Saturday, opening with Jeff Rapsis accompanying Miss Weber's 1915 silent Hypocrites at noon, followed by three blocks of films - student/YA/experimental/drama, local/documentary/horror, and foreign (plus documentary feature Recovery City). Later that night, they have Splatter University with live chiptune scoring as part of Boston Bitdown.
• On Friday, The Harvard Film Archive begins an Albert Serra series ("Cinematic Time Regained") on Friday, with separate shows of The Death of Louis XIV and Lliberté. On Saturday afternoon the student-programmed cinematheque is open to the public with a double feature of Beau Travail & Brief Encounter. The rest of the weekend is given over to Ben Rivers, who is on hand for his film Bogancloch on Saturday, programs Peter Watkins's Edvard Munch on Sunday (which also ties into a Munch exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums), and presents his short "Now, at Last!" on Monday, the latter two on 35mm film.
• The Museum of Fine Arts presents Danish Oscar nominee The Girl with the Needle on Friday night and MIyazaki's Spirited Away on Sunday afternoon.
• Movies at MIT has Her on Friday & Saturday evening and From Ground Zero on Sunday, though the latter wasn't in the week's email. As always, if you're not part of the MIT community, they'd appreciate an email at lsc-guest (at) MIT dot edu ahead of time.
• Per Joe's Free Films, RPM Fest has two other shows on Sunday after the monthly Brattle presentation, down the street at Harvard's CAMLab, with shorts at 7pm and the feature To Alexandra at 8:30pm.
• The Museum of Science is showing Mickey 17 on the giant screen Fridays & Saturdays throughout March, with the exception of the 22nd when they will show Hidden Figures (free, RSVP)..
• The Embassy has We're All Gonna Die and I'm Still Here through Sunday, with the former about a couple making a road trip to retrieve the possessions that the 10,000 mile-long alien tentacle in the sky has deposited on the other side of the country. The free Community Classic on Monday is 9 to 5
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday with Mickey 17 and Anora. They will also screen documentary Recovery City on Wednesday, followed by a Q&A with the director and several subjects.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Mickey 17 and No Other Land, holding over The Klezmer Project, Superboys of Malegaon, Anora, Nickel Boys, Flow, and A Complete Unknown. What's Up, Doc?> screens as part of Ty Burr's Movie Club on Thursday.
  
  Cinema Salem has Mickey 7, Anora, Last Breath, Porcelain War, and The Monkey. They also have Giant for Wayback Wednesday with Weirdo Wednesday on the other screen.

I want to head out to the Embassy for We're All Gonna Die, but the times make it a little more difficult than I'd like (not like the Screen On Fire thing in New York on Sunday, but, still, annoying). In the meantime, Mickey 17, In the Lost Lands, maybe Zoopocalypse.