Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 June 2025 - 3 July 2024

Bunch of rep at odds with each other this weekend.

• In the 'plexes, though, you've got F1: The Movie, with Brad Pitt as a former F1 racer lured back from stock car racing to compete and mentor a cocky young driver. Joseph Kosinski co-writes and directs, so the giant-screen racing action should look incredible. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (Including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Landmark 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.
  
  M3GAN 2.0 looks to be going the Terminator 2 route, with its killer robot rebooted and (hopefully) reprogrammed to protect the previous film's survivors from a next-generation android, slanted more toward sci-fi action than horror this time around. It's at the Somerville, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  IFFBoston selection Hot Milk, starring Fiona Shaw & Emma Mackey as a mother and daughter who find an alternate reality while looking for a health cure on the Spanish coast. It's at Boston Common and the Seaport. Comedy Everything's Going to Be Great, starring Allison Janney & Bryan Cranston as a couple involved in regional theater, plays Boston Common.
  
  Jurassic World Rebirth opens Wednesday, with Garth Evans directing Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali on a mission to another abandoned island lab where InGen made hybrid dinosaurs. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill. Looks like they're doing old-school midnight shows, at least at Assembly Row, rather than pushing all the way back to Tuesday, too!
  
  Another IFFBoston film, 40 Acres, starring Danielle Deadwyler as the head of a family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, opens at Boston Common on Wednesday (plus a bunch of early-Tuesday shows).
  
  Kids matinees include The Lego Batman Movie at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; Migration at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and Minions: The Rise of Gru at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Telugu-language fantasy epic Kannapa with Vishnu Manchu as the mythic hunter, as well as Hindi-language horror-fantasy Maa, starring Kajol as a mother who transforms into the goddess Kali to fight a demonic curse, a follow-up to last year's Shaitaan, though I'm not sure how closely connected they are (not seeing directors/cast in common).
  
  Hindi-language sports movie Sitaare Zameen Par continues at Fresh Pond (also at Causeway Street), Telugu-language crime drama Kuberaa continues at Fresh Pond (also at Boston Common). Another encore of The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika plays Sunday afternoon.
• The Brattle Theatre has three series going over the week. Pride month programming includes The Celluloid Closet (35mm Friday afternoon), Love Lies Bleeding (Friday night), The Living End (Saturday night), and How to Survive a Plague (Sunday night). That makes it tight for "Japan's Pop Art Renegade: Nobuhiko Obayashi x5", which includes both his most (in)famous film, House on 35mm Friday & Saturday, plus two double features - the original The Girl Who Leapt Through Time & School in the Crosshairs on Saturday & Sunday, and The Island Closest To Heaven & His Motorcycle, Her Island on Sunday & Monday.
  
  On Tuesday, with Universal holding Jaws back for other theaters, they start a "Spawn of Jaws: Blockbusters & Wannabe Blockbusters" series, looking at the big films that arose in Spielberg's film's wake. It starts with a free 35mm Elements of Cinema show of Grease on Tuesday, followed by Star Wars Tuesday night & Wednesday afternoon (almost certainly the Special Edition), Close Encounters of the Third Kind Wednesday evening, Alien Wednesday night & Thursday evening, Raiders of the Lost Ark Thursday afternoon, and Aliens Thursday night. The series continues through Thursday the 10th.
• Two stops up the Red Line, The Somerville Theatre continues their annual 70mm & Widescreen festival with a 35mm double feature of Harakiri & The Sword of Doom on Friday, a 70mm print of The Hunt for Red October on Saturday, separate 70mm shows of Always and Far and Away on Saturday, and 70mm Lawrence of Arabia on Monday. There's also a midnight show of the new restoration of Princess Mononoke (dubbed/4K) on Saturday, a 35mm "Greenscreen" show of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on Tuesday, and a "Summer Camp" show of Mommie Dearest on Wednesday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has a live show paying tribute to Neil Young & Joni Mitchell on Saturday, and the monthly Disasterpiece Theatre show on Monday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues the zombie sequel midnight shows with Bride of Re-Animator on Friday and Return of the Living Dead III on Saturday, both directed by Brian Yunza. Monday's Queer Cinema presentation is Querelle. On Tuesday, they start a new "Kaidan Kimosdameshi" series of Japanese horror with a 35mm print of Ugetsu; Thursday has two 35mm classics of various sorts: Drop Dead Gorgeous at 7pm and the officially-designated cult classic Jackass: The Movie.
• RoxFIlm has their closing night at The Museum of Fine Arts on Friday, with a shorts program in the afternoon and May the Lord Watch, a documentary on North Carolina rap group Little Brother, with band members on hand for a Q&A afterward, co-presented by BAMS Festival, which starts the next day.
• The Seaport Alamo brings back On Swift Horses for Pride shows (I guess?) Saturday & Sunday. Cult hit Frankenhooker plays Monday, and there's a Movie Party of Legally Blonde 2 on Tuesday
• The Regent Theatre has The Kids Are Alright - the concert movie featuring The Who, not the indie drama - on Saturday, including a Q&A with filmmaker Jeff Stein. They also have musical 1776 on Thursday afternoon, with a live reading of the Declaration of Independence that night
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films include Toy Story at the MIT Open Space on Friday and 10 Things I Hate About You at the TimeOut Market on Monday.
• The Museum of Science still has RSVPs open for a special showing of Sally in the Mugar Omni Theater on the 28th, and tickets are on sale for Superman when it opens in a couple of weeks.
• The Embassy continues Elio through Sunday (maybe not 7 days a week yet).
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, The Life of Chuck, and F1.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens F1 Friday and Jurassic World Rebirth Wednesday, holding over Elio, Prime Minister, How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, and The Life of Chuck. Short film program KINORAW has six shorts by Ukrainian filmmakers Saturday evening, and both Moonrise Kingdom and IFFBoston documentary Rebel with a Clause play Thursday night, the latter with the film's director and star on hand for a post-film Q&A.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, How to Train Your Dragon, F1, and M3GAN 2.0 through Monday. Vampyros Lesbos plays Friday for the Night Light show; Rocky Horror with Teseracte on Saturday (Full Body at Boston Common as always); a Girlies with Anniversaries show of Desperately Seeking Susan on Saturday, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame on Wednesday.

Man, there's just no way to make the Brattle and Somerville programs play nice with each other, huh? Trying to go back and forth between them through Monday, then seeing about F1 and Jurassic World. Although it's kind of crazy to me that apparently folks would rather use Imax screens for racecars than dinosaurs now.