- For instance, how do you do Freakier Friday without basically just repeating the first? Are there multiple swaps, maybe including a third generation on top of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis? Find out at The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, West Newton, 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), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
Weapons, the new one from the writer/director of Barbarian, promises to be just as weird and mysterious, as an entire elementary school class but one vanish from their homes - and then, apparently, things get freakier as the town turns on that kid and her teacher while trying to find out where they went. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser), and Arsenal Yards (including CWX).
Also opening are two documentaries: Stans, with Devon Sawa standing in for one of Eminem's superfans at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation plays Boston Common.
My Mother's Wedding opens at Boston Common and Causeway Street, with Kristin Scott Thomas writing, directing, and co-starring as a twice-widowed woman marrying again, with daughters played by ScarlettJohansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham. That's a pretty nice group.
Boston Common also gets Strange Harvest, a found-footage horror movie about journalists investigating the return of a monstrous serial killer (also at the Lexington Venue later in the week).
F1 re-expands this weekend, playing in Imax at Jordan's Furniture and either returning to screens or getting more showtimes in other places.
Kids matinees include Smallfoot at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, Shrek 2 at Fresh Pond Monday to Thursday, and The Secret Lives of Pets at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
There's a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row Monday. The annual "meet-up" shows of The Grateful Dead Movie are Wednesday & Thursday at Boston Common (Imax Laser) and Assembly Row (Imax Laser) and Thursday at Kendall Square and Jordan's Furniture (Imax). - Music doc It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, about a singer who had one hit album and then passed away, opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Kendall Square, and Boston Common.
The Coolidge's run of Akira Kurosawa Restorations adds a couple big ones to the rotation, with Seven Samurai playing Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday and Ran paying Tuesday & Thursday. Also included are Yojimbo & Sanjuro (separate admissions Saturday), High and Low (Monday/Wednesday), and Ikiru (Monday).
The kid-centric midnight horror this weekend are a twofer of Steven King movies that have recently had remakes in their original versions, with Children of the Corn '84 on Friday and Pet Semetary '89 on Saturday. The annual Monday 35mm party screening of The Big Lebowski has somehow not sold out as of this writing, which seems strange! The Tuesday Swayze Days show is To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, with An Evening of Silent Film with the Tanglewood Music Center also playing that night; it's a one-hour program of shorts with new scores written and performed by TMC students. Wednesday nights Spike & Denzel presentation is a 35mm print of He Got Game, with an optional seminar by Cliff Notez. Props for making Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song the "regular" Big Screen classic on Thursday night, with a 35mm print of Freddy Got Fingered in the Cult Classic slot later. - Apple Fresh Pond is mostly holding steady until next weeks's big releases, only opening 20-years-later sequel Andaaz 2, which appears to be a Bollywood musical legacyquel with Aayush Kumar (I'm guessing) starring as the son of Ashkay Kumar's character from the first, 22 years ago. Meanwhile, they hold over Hindi animated adventure Mahavatar Narisimha (now also showing in Telugu),,Kannada-language horror comedy Su From So, and Hindi-language romance Saiyaara; Kingdom continues at Boston Common.
On Wednesday, War 2, the latest entry in the YRF Spy Universe, opens in Hindi at Fresh Pond (also in Telugu), Boston Common (including late Imax and Telugu), and Causeway Street. Hrithik Roshan returns as Kabir, so deep undercover that the Indian government believes he has gone rogue. The first was crazy, arguably the best in the franchise. Also opening on Wednesday is the new Tamil-language Rajinikanth action movie, Coolie, with the superstar as a man who has been on a quest for vengeance since youth. It's at Fresh Pond (including Telugu-language shows), Boston Common (starting Thursday), and South Bay.
Korean webtoon adaptation My Daughter Is a Zombie, a pretty cute movie whose name explains it all, opens at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
Geez, they're including Grave of the Fireflies in Studio Ghibli Fest this year. Know what you're getting into, parents, if you choose to bring your kids to Boston Common or Assembly Row for subtitled shows Sunday/Tuesday or dubbed shows Monday. A new 4K transfer of Shin Godzilla opens at the Somerville, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Wednesday.
Chinese comedy The Lychee Road continues at Causeway Street. - The Brattle Theatre has a new 4K restoration of The Wiz through Sunday, sharing the screen with "Spectrum of Love", a series curated by STArt Film Studio exploring LGBTQ+ relationships in Asian film. Selections include Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together (Saturday), Tsai Ming-Liang's Vive L'Amour (Saturday), Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (Sunday) and Ray Yeung's All Shall Be Well.
Almania! continues with Prêt-à-Porter (including a "Pics and Crafts" show at 6pm) on Monday and Images on Tuesday. The "Summer of Satire" double feature on Wednesday is Weekend in 35mm & The Exterminating Angel. "Women in the Waves" on thursday pairs two by Věra Chytilová, Something Different & Daisies, the latter on 35mm film. - The Harvard Film Archive has Mikio Naruse's Summer Clouds on 35mm on Sunday afternoon, then finishes the Karpo Godina series with episodes 4-6 of Frame for a Few Poses on Sunday evening and Life of a Shock Force Worker on Monday evening.
- The Museum of Fine Arts continues their French Film Festival with Misericordia (Saturday morning), The President's Wife (Saturday afternoon), Night Call (Sunday morning), and Holy Cow (Sunday afternoon).
- The Seaport Alamo continues two ongoing series with Lady Snowblood for Saturday Swordplay (with an encore Tuesday afternoon) and the second Harry Potter movie (Chamber of Secrets) on Sunday & Wednesday. Ebony and Ivory, which imagines that song's creation with "Mike" and "Paul", plays Saturday night. On Sunday, they have two Spike & Denzel joints, Inside Man, and Mo' Better Blues, as separate admissions, ahead of a Highest 2 Lowest preview on Tuesday. There's a "Movie Party" for The Outsiders: The Complete Novel on Monday, Party Girl on Tuesday, a preview of Caught Stealing followed by a live-streamed Q&A with director Darren Aranofsky & star Austin Butler on Wednesday, with the week's third sneak a preview of Honey Don't with live-streamed Q&A from filmmakers Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke and stars Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaze, and Charlie Day on Thursday.
- The Somerville Theatre has The Warriors for Saturday's Midnight special, then both a "Silents Please" presentation of Padlocked on 35mm film On Sunday afternoon and a "barnstorming tour" show of Eephus with director Carson Lund and much of the cast & crew on hand in the evening. Monday/s Great Remakes double feature is Airplane! followed by Zero Hour!, the obscurity whose script it followed so closely that the filmmakers bought the rights to prevent legal action. A Wong Kar-Wai series begins with As Tears Go By on Tuesday and Days of Being Wild on Thursday, . Wednesday's Summer Camp show is Johnny Guitar on 35mm.
- Landmark Kendall Square's Tuesday "Festival Cinema" show is Lost in Translation.
- The Boston Jewish Film's Summer Cinematheque.is at the Vilna Shul on Thursday with Welcome to Yiddishland, with food and a post-film conversation with scholar Sarah Biskowitz.
- The big entry for outdoor movies at Joe's Free Films is the return of The Rocky Horror Picture Showto Harvard Square on Saturday; screening in front of the theater where it used to run before it shut down and it weekly screening moved to Boston Common. Later, there's a package of short films at the Somerville Growing Center on Tuesday; Moana 2 at Donnelly Field in Cambridge, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at Castle Island, Nightlife at Goethe-Institut (RSVP required), and the Coolidge lugging 35mm projectors to the Rose Kennedy Greenway for The Blob '88 on Wednesday; and Barbie at Somerville's Statue Park in Davis Square on Thursday.
The West Newton Cinema opens Freakier Friday and Weapons, holding over Sabbath Queen, The Bad Guys 2, Together, The Last Class, and Bad Shabbos. Dazed & Confused is the Ty Burr movie club show on Thursday.
Cinema Salem has The Bad Guys 2, Weapons, Together, and Freakier Friday through Monday. Spooky Picture Show & Born2BeRad host The Return of the Living Dead on Saturday night. Roman Holiday is the Wednesday Classic and Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall.
Out at the Dedham Community Theater, drama Familiar Touch, about an aging woman in an assisted care facility, appears to open just two days after coming out in its native France.
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