Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 20 June 2025 - 26 June 2024

Super-late on this, but something is wiping me out.

• Anyone else kind of surprised that 28 Years Later is only coming out 23 years after 28 Days Later? It reunites original writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle for the first time since 2007's Sunshine and apparently ignores 28 Weeks Later to tell a story of folks who have survived infected-free on an isolated island getting in danger on a foraging trip to the mainland. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Ralph Fiennes star, and don't look up the already-shot next movie to find out who either survives or figures in flashbacks to come! That's at the Coolidge, The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  The latest from Pixar is Elio, about a misfit kid who causes a bunch of trouble when his dream of being abducted by aliens comes true. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Embassy, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Comedy Bride Hard stars Rebel Wilson as a secret agent and maid of honor that a group of mercenaries did not count on when they took her best friend's wedding hostage. It plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  Brokeback Mountain has a 20th Anniversary re-release all week at Boston Common and Sunday & Tuesday at the Seaport.
  
  Kids' matinees include Happy Feet Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday at Kendall Square; Despicable Me 4 Monday to Wednesday at Fresh Pond; and The Bad Guys Monday & Tuesday at South Bay.
  
  There's a Monday mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row (probably the same movie for all chains, but maybe not; it's a mystery!). In non-mystery previews, F1 shows in Imax Monday at Boston Common and Assembly Row and again Wednesday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema),and Arsenal Yards (CWX).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Bad Shabbos, in which an interfaith couple sees the first meeting of their parents go awry due to a death before their dinner. Can't say I've heard of the folks playing the couple, but Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, and David Paymer is a fun cast. Director Daniel Robbins will be on hand for Q&A after the two shows on Sunday afternoon.
  
  Midnights this month are apparently 'zombie sequels', with Friday night's show of 28 Weeks Later tying into Years playing and Day of the Dead playing at 10pm Saturday night to give time for a conversation with actor Terry Alexander hosted by Nikki Coleman. Sunday morning's Geothe-Institut German film is Two to One, starring Sandra Hüller as one of the masterminds of a heist of East German marks in the waning days of the country. Monday's Queer Cinema presentation is 1969 Japanese film Funeral Parade of Roses; there's an apparently sold-out show of Spirited Away on Tuesday with both the original author Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa on had for discussion; and National Treasure lays for the Thursday night Rewind! show.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language coach-learns-from-neurodivergent team movie Sitaare Zameen Par (also at Causeway Street, South Bay), Telugu-language crime drama Kuberaa (also screening at Boston Common, with Telugu & Tamil shows at both locations), and Malayalam language thriller Ronth.
  
  This week's Ghibli Fest presentation is The Secret World of Arietty, playing Boston Common, Assembly Row Sunday (dubbed), Monday (subtitled), and Tuesday (dubbed). Anime Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye continues at Boston Common.
  
  Korean concert film Red Velvet Happiness Diary: My Dear, ReVe1uv plays Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday at Boston Common.
• It's Cronenberg Summer (or, at least, Cronenberg first-week-of-summer) at the The Brattle Theatre, with Rabid & The Brood Friday, Nightbreed Saturday & Sunday, Scanners & Videodrome Saturday, Naked Lunch on 35mm Sunday & Monday (Monday is a twin bill with The Brood), The Fly on 35mm & Dead Ringers Sunday, eXistenZ & Crimes of the Future '22 on Tuesday, and The Shrouds Wednesday & Thursday.
• The Somerville Theatre continues their John Waters tribute a 35mm double feature of Hairspray & Pecker on Friday. There's also a 35mm screening of Alien for Saturday's midnight special and they start a "Summer Camp" series with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls on Wednesday. Then, on Thursday, they kick off their annual 70mm & Widescreen festival with their own 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• RoxFIlm has shorts programs at The Museum of Fine Arts (Friday/Saturday), Hibernian Hall (Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday), MassArt (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday), and Just Book-ish (free Wednesday). Features include Village Keeper at the MFA Sunday, Acts of Reparation at Hibernian Hall Sunday, Rooted and Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball at Hibernian Hall Monday, The Ebony Canal at Haley House Monday, and Self Discover at MassArt Thursday. Most have Q&A sessions afterward.
• The Seaport Alamo has a Midsommar Movie Party on Saturday, and their Thursday-night screening of Megan 2.0 encourages cosplay.
• Landmark Kendall Square has a Pride Month presentation of Pariah on Tuesday.
• The Regent Theatre has We Are Guardians, a documentary on the residents of the Amazon rainforest, on Wednesday.
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films include the Coolidge hauling a 35mm projector to the Rose Kennedy Greenway for a Science on Screen presentation of Blade Runner: The Final Cut on Wednesday and Happy Gilmore at Boston Landing on Thursday.
• 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 will be open 7 days a week during the summer, playing Elio on screen 1 for the first week.
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, The Life of Chuck, and The Phoenician Scheme. They also have a free matinee of The In-Laws on Sunday, and a free presentation of documentary Free for All: The Public Library on Tuesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Elio and Prime Minister, keeping How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, and The Life of Chuck. They welcome The World Before Your Feet subject Matt Green on Saturday afternoon, followed by a ramble through West Newton in the spirit of the film. Midsommar plays on Tuesday, and on Thursday they host Eimi Imanishi to screen her short "Battalion to My Beat" and a work-in-progress version of feature Nomad Shadow.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, and The Phoenician Scheme through Monday. The Hunger plays Friday; D.E.B.S. and Swing Time on Saturday; The Asphalt Jungle, a craft night show of But I'm a Cheerleader, and Weirdo Wednesday on Wednesday; and a Girlies with Anniversaries show of Desperately Seeking Susan on Thursday.

Down for 28 Years Later and Elio in 3D, and maybe Bad Shabbos. Hoping I can catch up on a lot of Cronenberg I really should have seen by now, but we'll see how my stomach is feeling.