Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 13 June 2025 - 19 June 2024

Is this week's How to Train Your Dragon a live-action remake or reboot? Like, if it does well, are they going to try to carbon-copy the well-liked sequels or try something new from scratch?

• I mean, this could be an issue, because the new How to Train Your Dragon is pretty good for the same reasons the last one was pretty good, and I daresay Stoick is the role Gerard Butler was put on Earth to play. It's at Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including RealD 3D), 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.
  
  For the grown-ups, Materialists is the new feature from Past Lives's Celine Song, which features Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker whose own love life is thrown for a loop when she reconnects with one ex-boyfriend (Chris Evans) at the same time she meets the sort of very nice, very rich man (Pedro Pascal) her clients dream of. It's at the Coolidge, the Somerville, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The Unholy Trinity, a Western starring Samuel L. Jackson as an outlaw and Pierce Brosnan as a lawman who both have eyes on the son of one of the outlaw's former associates who hid a stash of gold, plays Boston Common. Prime Minister, a documentary about New Zealand leader Jacinda Barrett, also plays Boston Common.
  
  The Life of Chuck expands to the Somerville, Kendall Square, West Newton, the Lexington Venue, the Seaport, and Assembly Row after opening last week at the Coolidge and Boston Common.
  
  Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th is apparently going to be more of a thing than usual this month, with the 1980 original playing at West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, and the Seaport Friday night. There are also Father's Day screenings of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at Boston Common Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday. Monday Mystery Previews are on tap at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. There are also non-mystery Early Access screenings of Elio on Wednesday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, Chestnut Hill, all with RealD 3D in the afternoon and flat shows in the evening. Boston Common also has a Juneteenth Early Access screening of 40 Acres on Thursday. Some of the first-night shows of 28 Years Later on Thursday are listed as "Fan Events".
• Landmark Kendall Square has Apple production Echo Valley, with Julianne Moore as a mother called upon to get daughter Sydney Sweeney out of a jam. Apparently matinees-only, a bummer for those of us who can't hit it during the weekend.
  
  Tuesday's Pride Month presentation is The Kids Are All Right.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens a re-release of 2012 Telugu romance Andala Rakshasi, and Malayalam-language drama Vyasana Sametham Bandhu Mithradhikal (through Sunday). Thug Life continues in Telugu at Fresh Pond, as does Housefull 5, though apparently only the "A" ending.
  
  Korean concert film Red Velvet Happiness Diary: My Dear, ReVe1uv starts a run at Boston Common on Thursday.
  
  Anime Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye continues at the Embassy, Boston Common, the Seaport. A "double album" of last year's two Given sequels, Hiiragi Mix & To the Sea (the original seems to be exclusive to AppleTV but there's a Blu-ray) plays Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport on Monday.
• After a Friday Film Matinee of Psycho II (surprisingly good!), it's Noir City Boston at the The Brattle Theatre! This year, it'ss almost all 35mm double features: Murder, My Sweet & Out of the Past on Friday; The Sleeping City & Mary Ryan, Detective early Saturday; Caged & The Narrow Margin later Saturday; Tomorrow Is Another Day & Tension early Sunday; and 99 River Street & My True Story later Sunday; there's also a new 4K restoration of Phantom Lady on Monday.
  
  Amid that, they have Father's Day screenings of The Empire Strikes Back at 9pm Saturday & Sunday. They then finish off the Linklater/Hawke/Delpy trilogy with Before Midnight on Monday, have Pride screenings of The Times of Harvey Milk on Tuesday, celebrate Juneteenth with Daughters of the Dust on Wednesday & Thursday, with a Strictly Brohibited screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post on Wednesday.
• Many places are showing the original Friday the 13th on Friday, but only The Coolidge Corner Theatre and their After Midnite crew hit the road and pair it with the 2009 version at Rocky Woods! Back in Brookline, "regular" midnights are Zombi 2 on Friday and a 35mm print of Evil Dead 2 on Saturday.
  
  Saturday also has Bleak Week continue with a 35mm print of Dead Presidents, while a digital restoration of Happiness and a 35mm print of Funny Games wraps things on Sunday. On Monday, they have Juliet B. Schor signing her book about the four-day-work week for a (Social) Science on Screen presentation of The Apartment, while the "Visible Mysteries: Queer Cinema" series offers The Watermelon Woman on another screen. Tuesday has Open Screen upstairs and Jeff Rapsis accompanying Don Q, Son of Zorro in the main hall. There's a seminar by Vernon Shetley before Thursday's Big Screen Classic show of the 1973 Robert Altman version of The Long Goodbye, covering how it is both film noir and New Hollywood.
• The Seaport Alamo has Pavements Friday/SaturdaySunday/Tuesday for those that missed it at the Brattle. They also have a "Family Party" show of How to Train Your Dragon on Saturday, The Birdcage on Sunday, Showgirls on Monday, and Knife + Heart on Tuesday. Dark Wednesday, apparently.
• Belmont World Film finishes their Pride/World Refugee Awareness Month show at the West Newton Theater with Under the Volcano on Monday, about a Ukrainian family stranded in Spain when their country is invaded while they are on vacation. The speaker is Nathalie Robelot Timtchenko, founder of First Aid for the Soul, which will be the beneficiary of a pre-screening reception at the theater.
• The Regent Theatre has a Midweek Music Movie on Wednesday, documentary Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between.
• The Somerville Theatre begins a John Waters tribute with Female Trouble on 35mm film Thursday.
  
  Friendship moves over to The Capitol Theatre to make room for the new releases in Somerville.
• RoxFIlm opens at The Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday with a free Juneteenth screening of Paint Me a Road Out of Here with post-film Q&A. Note that tickets can't be RSVPed until 10am on Thursday and are first-come first-serve and not part of the festival ass.
• Hey, the outdoor screenings are filling out a bit at Joe's Free Films, with Inside Out at the MIT Open Space on Friday; Moana 2 at Medford's Park at River's Edge, also on Friday; and Good Burger (programmed by the Coolidge) at Brighton's Charles River Speedway on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has RSVPs open for a special showing of Sally in the Mugar Omni Theater on the 28th, paying tribute to LGBTQ+ icon Sally Ride.
• The Embassy continues Ballerina and Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye through Sunday.
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with The Life of Chuck and The Phoenician Scheme.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens the new How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, and The Life of Chuck while holding over The Phoenician Scheme, Caught by the Tides, Lilo & Stitch, and Friendship. Friday the 13th plays Friday, locally-shot horror Stonegate on Saturday.
  
  Cinema Salem has Friendship, How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, and The Phoenician Scheme through Monday. They obviously play Friday the 13th '80 for the Friday Night Light show. There's also a Spooky PIcture Show presentation of the original Fright Night on Saturday, Mildred Pierce on Saturday afternoon, Girlies with Anniversaries shows of The Virgin Suicides on Saturday and D.E.B.S. on Thursday; plus Swing Time for Wayback Wednesday with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall

Got a ticket for Yankees-Red Sox Friday and appreciate Noir City Boston scheduling stuff that runs fairly frequently that night; I'll be doing the four double features for the weekend, which sounds like a lot, but the back half are 65-minute B-movies even my treacherous bladder can stand. Materialists and probably a lot of catch-up during the week because the Sox are on the West Coast and "7pm movie + 10pm ballgame" is kind of convenient if you don't much care about sleep.