Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 21 March 2025 - 27 March 2024

BUFF pushing a lot of stuff I might go for into next week!

• After the relatively quiet opening days, Boston Underground Film Festival runs through Sunday at The Brattle Theatre with all sorts of good stuff: Local horror, Head Like a Hole (with filmmaker), The Ugly Stepsister, and midnight shorts on Friday; music videos, comedy shorts, Sister Midnight, Alma and the Wolf (with filmmakers), Re-Animator (with star Barbara Crampton, and an AGFA mixtape on Saturday; plus two shorts programs (including animation), Best Wishes to All, Fucktoys (with filmmakers), and Escape from the 21st Century on Sunday.
  
  After that, they continue the verticals, with Frederick Wiseman's Welfare on Monday, and Aimée & Jaguar for German Queer Cinema on Tuesday. They also wind up the "March Movie Madness" they started at the Oscar watch with runner-up Dead Ringers on Tuesday and a double-feature of Taxi Driver and original-recipe Suspiria on Wednesday.
• The big release this week is Disney's Snow White, with Rachel Zeglar in the title role and Gal Godot good casting as the evil queen, although the preview starts to get ropy with CGI dwarfs and attempts to replicate the original animated film a little too closely. Clocks in under two hours, though! It's at The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), 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.
  
  The Alto Knights stars Robert De Niro as both rival crime bosses looking to control New York City, with a script by Nichola Pileggi and Barry Levinson directing, both of whom were pretty big deals for a while. It's at the Capitol, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Locked is an American remake of an Argentine thriller with a neat little premise that has Bill Skarsgård playing a car thief breaking into a car whose owner (Anthony Hopkins) has apparently just been waiting to lock someone in while he controls the vehicle remotely. It's at Boston Common and South Bay.
  
  Stylish-looking sci-fi horror Ash, directed by rapper Flying Lotus and starring Eiza Gonzalez, Aaron Paul, and Iko Uwais, plays Boston Common and Causeway Street. More Twilight Zone-ish is The Assessment, with Alicia Vikander as a woman spending seven days reviewing the childbirth permit of a young couple (Himesh Patel & Elizabeth Olsen). It's at Boston Common and the Seaport.
  
  Magazine Dreams shows up two years after its Sundance premiere and a year-plus after an expected award-friendly release in December 2023, because star Jonathan Majors, playing a bodybuilder pushing himself to the limits, is still pretty radioactive. It's at Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Any Day Now, a locally-produced film that plays what-if with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, opens at Arsenal Yards.
  
  Another local production, Eephus, expands to West Newton, the Lexington Venue, Boston Common, the Seaport, already at the Somerville Theatre and the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
  
  Two movies apparently getting four-walled at Fresh Pond: McVeigh gets matinee shows with Alfie Allen as Texan bomber Timothy McVeigh with some recognizable faces in the supporting cast, while Popeye the Slayer Man is the inevitable reimagination of a character who has newly entered the public domain as a slasher-killer (Jason Robert Stephens). You can tell it's a horror film made in the northeast because Sarah Nicklin is in it. There's a preview screening of Death of a Unicorn at Boston Common, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards on Monday and at the Seaport on Wednesday, ahead of the Thursday early shows. Concert film Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert plays Kendall Square, Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row Sunday. Imagine Dragons: Live From the Hollywood Bowl plays the Kendall, Boston Common, and Assembly Row on Wednesday.
• Indian films at Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language romantic comedy Pintu Ki Pappi and re-releases of Telugu comedy Yevade Subramanyam (Friday to Sunday) and Malayalam thriller Lucifer (Saturday/Sunday), with Telugu drama Court - State vs. a Nobody held over (and expanding to Causeway Street). It's a quiet weekend before the big Eid releases start rolling out - Tamil actioner Veera Dheera Sooran Part 2 (also at Causeway Street starting Thursday) and Lucifer 2 on Wednesday, with Telugu comedy Mad Square (also at Causeway Street) and Telugu action-comedy Robinhood coming Thursday.
  
  Chinese drama Always Have Always Will, starring Peng Yuchang as a troubled man who winds up with a sick girl played by Yang Enyou tagging along, opens at Causeway Street. Ne Zha 2 hangs on at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row (RealD 3D).
  
  Princess Mononoke plays in a new 4K transfer at South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) on Wednesday and Thursday.
  
  Vietnamese comedy The 4 Rascals continues at South Bay.
• More David Lynch at The Seaport Alamo with Lost Highway Friday to Sunday. Marie Antoinette plays Saturday & Sunday, and Girls Town on Tuesday. There's also a preview of Hell of a Summer with livestreamed Q&A on Tuesday.
• The Somerville Theatre picks up On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and also continues the IFFBoston "March Music Madness" series with Stop Making Sense on Friday, Divine Madness on Tuesday, and Amazing Grace on Thursday. There's a Midnight Special of Enter the Dragon on Saturday, a 35mm member screening on Sunday, and ¡Corazón!, a locally shot mumblecore Western musical set in suburban New Hampshire, on Monday.
• ArtsEmerson hosts documentaries selected by The Boston Asian American Film Festival and others this weekend, with Admissions Granted Friday evening with a post-film Q&A/panel, 9-Man Saturday afternoon, andHome Court (with short "Yellow Brotherhood") Saturday evening, also with Q&A/panel
• The Regent Theatre has a premiere event for locally-made sci-fi thriller Article 92 on Friday, delayed from a month ago. Why you schedule this movie first during the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival and then BUFF, I dunno.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre rolls over last week's movies, with The Room at midnight Friday and monkey movies Carnival Magic (Friday) and Link (35mm Saturday); they have, as expected, outlasted The Monkey there. They have The Lord of The Rings trilogy in 35mm on Sunday, although both it and the encore on 20 April are marked as sold out. Sunday also offers "Totally Trailblazers" show Salaam Bombay!, with Big Screen Classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Monday, and a Science on Screen show of Mulholland Drive on Tuesday (listed as sold out)
• The Museum of Science has Hidden Figures on the giant screen Saturday for Women's History Month (free, RSVP). Mickey 17 continues on the giant screen Fridays & Saturdays this weekend and next..
• Spring break is reaching its tail end, so The Harvard Film Archive is closed Friday & Saturday, with Albert Serra:Cinematic Time Regained picking back up with The Death of Louis XIV and Birdsongas separate shows Sunday, the latter on 35mm film, and a 35mm print of Serra's Honor of the Knights on Monday Serra himself will be in town next weekend..
• National Center for Jewish Film shows this week are Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief and The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka at The Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, Soda at the Coolidge Monday (marked as sold out), The Blonde Boy from the Casbah at the Coolidge Wednesday, and Pink Lady at the Coolidge on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Edgar Wright's The World's End on Tuesday.
• Movies at MIT has La Haine 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 three Revolutions Per Minute Fest shows at Goethe-Institut on Saturday: Shorts at 1pm & 2:30m, and Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis at 7pm with a live score by the Charlie Kohlhase Trio (that one is ticketed). There's also a "Women Take The Reel" screenings at Tufts on Thursday - The Projections of Anna May Wong (RSVP recommended).
• The Embassy has On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and The Brutalist through Sunday. The free Community Classic on Monday is All About Eve (or not; it's in earlier emails but not this week's nor on the website).
• The Lexington Venue is open all week except Monday with Black Bag, Eephus, and No Other Land.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Eephus and Snow White, also retaining The Day the Earth Blew Up, No Other Land, Anora, Flow, and A Complete Unknown. They also have special guests on Sunday - you can see Eephus with former Sox pitcher Bill Lee and Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy in the afternoon, while Edward Ashton, author of original novel Mickey7, will sign his latest and introduce/discuss Mickey 17 in the evening (note that the film has closed there otherwise). They also have a pair of short films - "Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy" & "The Officials" - on Wednesday night with filmmakers in attendance.
  
  Cinema Salem has Snow White, Black Bag, Opus, and Mickey 17 through Monday. There's a Whodunit Watch Party on Sunday, and Wayback Wednesday is Angels with Dirty Faces, with Weirdo Wednesday on the other screen. Highly alliterative special programming this week.

I am living at the Brattle for BUFF through Sunday, then likely trying to fit ¡Corazón!, Ash, The Assessment, The Alto Knights, and Locked into the rest of the week, since only one of them looks like it'll be around for more than a week. Also sighing sadly at the alternate Sunday of a great member screening at the Somerville and the Mickey 17 thing in West Newton, even if I don't that it's really possible to get back home via public transportation after that.