(Also, the ticketing apps are being weird again for AMC Boston Common; it looks like they're running two screens through Sunday and fewer than the full 19 during the week)
- Which is to say, the Boston Underground Film Festival opens Wednesday at The Brattle Theatre, kicking off with a preview of Nicolas Cage in Lorcan Finnegan's The Surfer and an unearthing of Muerte en la Playa opening night. On Thursday, the offer Chain Reactions, a documentary on the impact of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Irish-language folk horror Fréwaka, and Joel Potrykus's Vulcanizadora. The festival continues to test how many things you can fit into the Brattle's schedule through next Sunday.
Before that, though, they have High Tide on 35mm as the Friday Film matinee, and then a weekend of "Bruce Willis: Beyond the Bombastic", with The Bonfire of the Vanities (35mm) and Hudson Hawk (35mm) on Friday, Death Becomes Her on Saturday & Sunday (only Saturday listed as 35mm), a Pulp Fiction/Nobody's Fool double feature (both 35mm) on Saturday, The Sixth Sense (35mm) and Breakfast of Champions on Sunday; and 12 Monkeys (35mm) on Monday. Sunday also features an Adventure Time Afternoon with the makers of the tie-in comics choosing their favorite episodes and signing their new giant-size compendium. The Frederick Wiseman film for the week is Juvenile Court, and the German queer cinema presentation on Tuesday is Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press. - But first, another local underground-ish film, Eephus opens at the Somerville Theatre and the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with director Carson Lund and co-star/former Red Sox Bill Lee making appearances at the Somerville on Saturday and the Coolidge on Sunday (there's more on tap, with folks at West Newton next weekend). It's a terrific little movie about the last game played on a town ballpark about to be bulldozed, between two rec league teams of folks from college to retirement age. Lee shows up as basically Bill Lee and recently-retired Sox radio guy Joe Castiglione is selling pizza.
- For their second film of the year, director Steven Soderbergh and writer David Koepp offer up Black Bag, with Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married MI-6 agents whose life becomes a thriller when her field agent is suspected of being turned and his ratcatcher is required to suss out the truth. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Say farewell to the Novocaine trailer, as the film - starring Jack Quaid as a man without pain receptors stumbling forward in an attempt to rescue his new girlfriend from hostage-takers, opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
Not to be confused with Eephus, Opus stars Ayo Edebiri as a journalist invited to the estate of John Malkovich's reclusive pop star ahead of his first release in 30 years, but something is apparently not right beyond how fawning the rest of the press is. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (starting Monday), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
The oddest release this week is The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck as the odd couple who must stop a secret alien invasion, which Warner Brothers has offloaded to small distributor Ketchup Entertainment, which I suppose is better than entirely disappearing it. It's a spinoff of the recent "Looney Tunes Cartoons" show on Max and uses those designs. It plays at Fresh Pond, West Newton, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
The Rule of Jenny Pen shifts to Causeway Street with whatever's going on at Boston Common leaving it no screen.
There's an AMC "Screen Unseen" preview Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Concert film Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert plays Kendall Square, Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row Wednesday. Wednesday also has an A24 x Imax show of Spring Breakers at South Bay and Assembly Row and an Early Access screening of Ash with livestreamed Q&A with the cast at South Bay and Assembly Row. Thursday also offers an "Opening Night Fan Event" for Snow White in Dolby Cinema at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row, and "RAD Day", which includes both cult BMX flick Rad and the new A Rad Documentary, at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. - A nifty one from last year's IFFBoston Fall Focus, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Kendall Square, and Boston Common (starting Monday). It follows a young woman in Zambia who finds the body of her uncle on the road but is, for reasons that gradually become clear, more than a bit ambivalent about the elaborate funeral arrangements.
The Coolidge also "opens" one of my favorites from last year's Fantasia Festival, The Dead Thing, for midnight shows on Friday and Saturday; with Blu Hunt as a woman whose professional, dating, and home life seems at a dead end until she meets a good man with secrets; I really liked how, in a festival where folks were setting things in the past to avoid cell phones, it seemed to be figuring out how a gothic romance worked in a world with dating apps, flex-time, and roommates. Oh, and it's apparently on 35mm film to boot!
Also at midnight on Friday is lab-monkey-at-large flick Shakma (preceded by short "Humanzee") on 35mm, while Saturday offers the original Japanese version of King Kong Vs. Godzilla, albeit in an English dub. Earlier that evening, they welcome Joe Bob Briggs for a "Cult of the Rock Star" double feature of Bubba Ho-Top & Rock 'n' Roll High School. Other rep for the week includes German doc Riefenstahl on Sunday morning, presented by Geothe-Institut and featuring a Zoom Q&A with director Andres Veiel afterward; a 35mm print of Agnès Varda's Vagabond with pre-film seminar led by Alex Kittle; New England Legacy screenings of documentary featurettes Primary & The Collective: Fifteen Years Later on Wednesday; and both a National Center for Jewish Film festival presentation of Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire with director Oren Rudavsky in person and a 35mm Big Screen Classic show of Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More on Thursday. - Landmark Kendall Square picks up The Actor, with Andre Holland as an amnesiac who attempts to begin a new life with a local costume designer (Gemma Chan) until his memories start to re-emerge. Duke Johnson directs from a Donald E. Westlake novel; it also plays in West Newton.
The Edgar Wright series at the Kendall continues with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on Tuesday. Tuesday also features thriller Misericordia, with director Alain Guiraudie on-hand for a Q&A. - Indian films at Apple Fresh Pond include Hindi-language thriller The Diplomat, with John Abraham as the title character, who must attempt to return an Indian girl from Pakistan and a marriage presumably entered into under false pretences. The other new releases are in Telugu: Drama Court - State vs. a Nobody, romantic thriller Dilruba, and a re-release of 2012's romance Yuganiki Okka Premikudu, opening Saturday. Superboys of Malegaon continues at West Newton.
Vietnamese comedy The 4 Rascals, about friends trying to "solve" a love triangle, opens at Causeway Street and South Bay.
Hong Kong drama Papa, starring Sean Lau Ching-wan as a father trying to do the right thing after his schizophrenic son kills the rest of their family, opens at Causeway Street. Ne Zha 2 starts to wind down but still shows at Boston Common (RealD 3D starting Monday), Causeway Street, and Assembly Row (RealD 3D).
There's an encore "Gundam Fest" screening of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack on Sunday at South Bay, and Assembly Row. Another anime preview, the "Witch Watch" Watch Part, plays Assembly Row Sunday to Tuesday. - The Seaport Alamo has more David Lynch shows, Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me playing through Wednesday (and maybe Thursday). Jumanji plays Friday to Sunday, with Sunday a "Movie Party" show. The Barrymore/Diaz/Liu/McG Charlie's Angels plays Friday/Saturday/Monday/Wednesday; The Lady Eve Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Wednesday. A "Mystery Machine" movie plays Monday (maybe the same as AMC, maybe not), a members' preview show of Holland on Tuesday, and the Watermelon Woman, also on Tuesday.
- The Somerville Theatre ties into Eephus by showing Major League as Friday's midnight special. They also have Any Day Now, a locally-produced film inspired by the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, on Monday night with director Eric Aronson and actors Paul Giulfoyle & Taylor Gray on hand for a Q&A. The 2025 edition of the Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival on Tuesday, and an IFFBoston "March Music Madness" show of Wattstax on Thursday. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl also shows Thursday; it's not clear if that's a one-off or the start of a run.
The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show with Preacher & Daisy and Sweet Petunia on Friday, with BADWARE on visuals. - The Museum of Fine Arts has Kubo and the Two Strings on Friday evening and Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery on Saturday afternoon.
- Movies at MIT has Ran on Friday & Saturday evening. 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.
- Joe's Free Films shows two "Women Take The Reel" screenings on Thursday, with Breaking the News at Northeastern and Category: Woman at Boston College
- 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 The Brutalist through Sunday. The free Community Classic on Monday is Erin Brockovich.
- The Lexington Venue is open all week except Monday with Black Bag, Mickey 17, and Anora. They also have a free Sunday matinee of Safe at Home!, a 1962 oddity featuring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris as themselves, and documentary The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause on Thursday.
The West Newton Cinema opens The Day the Earth Blew Up and The Actor, keeping Mickey 17, No Other Land, Superboys of Malegaon, Anora, Flow, and A Complete Unknown. Hundreds of Beavers plays Friday night, and there's a "Producer's Circle" show of The Pneumafractalist on Thursday.
Cinema Salem has Black Bag, Opus, Mickey 7, and Anorathrough Monday. Friday's Night Light show is Enter The Dragon, and Wayback Wednesday is Yankee Doodle Dandy
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