Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 13 March 2026 - 19 March 2026

Aw Yeah BUFF's Back!

• That would be The Boston Underground Film Festival, which The Brattle Theatre hosts starting on Wednesday with a 35mm premiere of Ben Wheatley's new action thriller Normal hosted by star Bob Odenkirk and a late show of Bullet Infinity. Thursday features The Serpent's Skin, The Hedonist, and Sugar Rot, with the festival continuing through Sunday the 22nd.
  
  But first, Kate the Great: Oscar's Favorite Actress continues with a Friday Film Matinee of Summertime, Pat and Mike & Desk Set on Saturday, The Lion in Winter on Sunday & Monday, On Golden Pond as part of a double feature on Sunday, and The Philadelphia Story & Bringing Up Baby on Tuesday.
  
  They also show Night of the Living Dead with author Daniel Kraus discussing his Dead-related memoir on Friday, and without on Saturday. There's also an open-crafting show of Footloose Monday evening.
• The big opening this week is Reminders of Him, in which a woman (Maika Monroe) who spent seven years in prison after causing the accident that took her boyfriend's life winds up falling for his best friend (Tyriq Withers) and her new boss, who has apparently been helping raise their daughter but didn't recognize her based on the trailer, and, I don't know, was she just knocked up after a really quick fling where he never posted anything on social media or does this take place in 1995 or what? It's based on a Colleen Hoover novel and it's got Bradley Whitford & Lauren Graham as the grandparents, and plays at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  It's honestly kind of odd to me that The Undertone (now just undertone) got picked up by a major-ish studio after seeing it at Fantasia last summer; it's decent, but the creepy bit is not the podcast reviewing a cursed recording that's in the foreground. Nice solo performance by Nana Kiri and banger finale, though. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby CInema), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  An edgier horror-comedy is Slanted, in which a Chinese-American teenager (Shirley Chen) undergoes experimental surgery that leaves her looking like a white girl (Mckenna Grace), horrifying her family but maybe not giving her a social leg up because now she's The New Girl. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay. Thriller The Gates has three young black men witnessing a murder in a gated community and hunted by the residents who think they did it, one of whom appears to be James Van Der Beek in his final role. It's at Boston Common.
  
  Shot-in-English Croatian sci-fi adventure Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead looks like a kick; shame it's mostly playing Boston Common for late shows when it looks kind of Young Adult-y.
  
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze gets a 35th-anniversary re-release at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row; The Revenant gets a regular re-release at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row after a couple Imax one-offs; Tommy plays Boston Common (Imax Laser) on Tuesday and Wednesday for its 50th anniversary.
  
  Boston Common has the second half of the Best Picture Marathon on Sunday, with Sentimental Value, F1, Marty Supreme, Sinners, and Bugonia; several are also returning to theaters or more prominent on the schedule in anticipation of a boost around the ceremony on Sunday. Boston Common also has one-offs of "The Blue Angels" in Imax 3D, a Pi Day showing of Pi, and the original Leprechaun on Saturday. The Optimist with Stephen Lang & Elsie Fisher has encore screenings at Boston Common and Kendall Square on Sunday afternoon. There's a preview of The Pout-Pout Fish at Boston Common and South Bay Sunday afternoon, and secret previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. Project Hail Mary has Amazon Prime early shows at Boston Common (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards (CWX) on Monday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language thriller Charak and Malayalam-language horror film Sambhavam Adhyayam Onnu on Friday. An uncut version of Tamil-language crime film Aaranya Kaandam plays Saturday, and Hindi-language action epic Dhurandhar The Revenge opens Wednesday, roughly 3 months after its predecessor (also at Boston Common, Causeway Street). Telugu-langauge action-comedy Ustaad Bhagat Singh also opens at Causeway Street on Wednesday (and may be at Fresh Pond; they're not showing a full schedule that far out on their website).
  
  A couple more Lunar New Year movies make it Stateside this weekend, with Per Aspera Ad Astra, a sci-fi adventure from Animal World & Go Away Mr. Tumor director Yan Yan playing Boston Common and Causeway Street (mostly afternoons), with animated fantasy Boonie Bears: The Hidden Protector playing matinees at Boston Common. Still playing are Pegasus 3 at Boston Common and Causeway Street; and Blades of the Guardians at Causeway Street. No word yet on Panda Plan 2.
  
  Kiki's Delivery Service gets a giant-screen re-release, playing dubbed and subbed at Boston Common (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser). There's also a Crunchyroll Anime Nights Sneak Peak at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row on Monday. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle gets a second week at Boston Common.
  
  Apparently The King's Warden has been doing pretty well in limited release, as it's back up to a full screen at Causeway Street and also playing Boston Common.
• The Somerville Theatre has the Mahoning Drive-In Road Show on Friday, with a 35mm double feature of Smokey & the Bandit & The Car and, I presume, fun to be had before, after, and between. Indie comedy The Napa Boys plays Saturday and Tuesday (and Monday the 23rd with co-star Mike Mitchell on hand), with indie thriller Jit plays Monday. The silent version of Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail plays Sunday afternoon with a new score by Neil Brand performed live by the New England Film Orchestra. The Princess Bride is Wednesday's 35mm Feel Good Film.
  
  The Capitol Theatre holds over The President's Cake and brings back the Oscar-Nominated Documentary & Animated shorts.
• The Harvard Film Archive starts a new series, "The Lady and the Typewriter", with Meet John Doe at 6pm Friday, His Girl Friday and 7pm Saturday, and The Hudsucker Proxy at 9pm Saturday. Sunday's screening of Dr. Strangelove on a new print is sold out, but there may be seats available if there are no-shows.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre will be showing Project Hail Mary in 70mm, and has three sold-out preview shows this weekend. They also make up for not doing any Friday the 13th stuff last month with a double feature at 11pm on Friday (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday & Freddy vs. Jason, with Saturday the 14th and Eraserhead playing midnight on Saturday. They've also got kids' shows of The Peanuts Movie Saturday & Sunday mornings, The Thin Blue Line as the BIg Screen Classic on Monday, a 35mm print of Monsoon Wedding with a seminar led by BU's Dr. Shilpa Parnami on Tuesday, and Clair Denis's Beau Travail for "Calling the Shots" on Wednesday.
• The Seaport Alamo continues the Jurassic Park Movie Party series with The Lost World on Friday and Jurassic Park III on Sunday, has episodes 10-12 of Twin Peaks: The Return and Pi on Saturday, has the second weekly screening of the Extended Editions of Lord of the Rings with The Two Towers on Sunday. Maximum Overdrive plays for Terror Tuesday, while Dead Lover is Weird Wednesday. The Gorillaz-programmed member screening on Thursday is Britannia Hospital.
• The Regent Theatre has documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead on Friday, short film "Between Two Worlds" followed by a panel discussion with South Sudanese community leaders on Wednesday, and Mountains of the Moon, which combines outdoor sports and the music of the Grateful Dead, with a live Scott Damgaard set to kick the night off on Thursday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has two exhibitions-on-film - Caravaggio and Turner and Constable on Saturday, and concludes their Oscar preview series with One Battle After Another on Sunday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Spirited Away for the Studio Ghibli Retro Replay on Tuesday, and an "Directors in Focus" screening of Martin Scorsese's After Hours on Wednesday.
• (Probable) last call for Oscar-Nominated Short films start continue this week, with the Animated Shorts at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, the Capitol, the Lexington Venue (Saturday/Sunday), and CinemaSalem (Friday/Sunday); the Live Action Shorts at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, the Venue (Saturday), and CinemaSalem (Friday/Sunday); and the Documentary Shorts at the Coolidge, the Capitol, the Venue (Saturday), and CinemaSalem (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday).
• The Boston Baltic Film Festival has movies available to stream through the 23rd.
• The Museum of Science has a second weekend of The Bride! on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday, with Project Hail Mary taking those slots next weekend.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday with One Battle After Another (no show Wednesday), Sinners, Train Dreams, and the Oscar shorts programs. Documentary Suburban Fury plays with director Robinson Devor present for a Q&A on Friday, and there's a free screening of Free for All: The Public Library on Tuesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Reminders of Him and The President's Cake, continuing Hoppers, Sirât, EPiC, Pillion, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, and Hamnet. GoodFellas plays Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre continues to show For Worse and EPiC.
  
  Cinema Salem rolls with the Oscar Shorts (though not every one every day), Scream 7, Hoppers and The Bride! from Friday to Monday. Excalibur is the Friday Night Light show, The Incredible Shrinking Man is the Wednesday Classic (with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall), and Carrie plays Thursday (costumes encouraged).
  
  If you can make it out to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they've got indie horror Scared to Death, with a cast that includes Lin Shaye, Bill Mosely, and Rae Dawn Chong among the younger folks.

I guess Houston just isn't really a movie town - there's like one 6-screen AMC downtown and a Regal somewhat further out that really doesn't make getting back to the hotel easy - so Maybe I'll see something before the only show of Per Aspera Ad Astra that works for me and then BUFF. Updates to my Letterboxd page vaguely possible!