Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 3 April 2026 - 9 April 2026

Two big releases, so not a lot of room for other things!

• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie movie opened Wednesday and this weekend plays The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday/Saturday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema & XL & RealD 3D & Spanish), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is The Drama, which looks a bit like a farce about a planned wedding starting to go off the rails when the principals (Zendaya & Robert Pattinson) start to really learn about each other. It's set/shot in Boston and Kristoffer Borgli directs; it seems like just a couple years ago he was playing BUFF rather than multiplexes. It plays the Somerville (35mm), the Cooldige (including 35mm), Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  A Great Awakening has atheist Ben Franklin finding kinship with a preacher at Boston Common.
  
  Arsenal Yards plays Space Jam: A New Legacy Friday evening. Imax 3D documentary "Pandas" plays Boston Common Saturday morning; horror flick The Yeti plays Boston Common Saturday & Wednesday. John Woo's original The Killer with Chow Yun-fat plays Boston Common (Sunday/Monday/Wednesday) and the Seaport (Sunday to Wednesday). There's a mystery [horror] preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Fantasy Life, featuring writer/director Matthew Shear as a law-school dropout who winds up looking after his therapist's grandchildren only to fall for their (married) actress mother, in what's apparently one of Amanda Peet's best roles. It's also at the Capitol, the Dedham Community Theatre, and Boston Common.
  
  The Coolidge also opens a new 4K restoration of Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest in the small rooms, with the larger ones mostly reserved for things on film (Project Hail Mary shows on screen #1 are 70mm, weekend shows of The Drama on screen #2 are 35mm).
  
  The Coolidge also has their monthly screening of Eraserhead at midnight Friday, and it's just hit me that I bet they sell a ton of "I Saw Eraserhead Here" t-shirts those nights. The other midnights this month are bio-horror, with a 35mm print of The Ruins on Friday and Creepshow on Saturay. There are kids' shows of Ratatouille Saturday and Sunday morning, and tickets are still available at the moment for this week's (final-for-now) Lord of the Rings marathon on Sunday. Monday's big-screen classic is La Strada, Tuesday's Mel Brooks show is Blazing Saddles, and Wednesday has author Emily Franklin there to discuss how her new book Love and Other Monsters relates to the night's movie The Bride of Frankenstein. There's another special event on Thursday, with Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins showing a number of selections from their archives and Bill Janovitz playing Dylan covers afterward.
• New Indian films opening at Apple Fresh Pond feature Telugu-language motocross film Biker and Telgugu-language comedy-adventure Raakaasaa (also at Causeway Street). Hindi-lagnuage action-sequel epic Dhurandhar The Revenge continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street, and a 4K re-release of Race Gurram plays Fresh Pond for star Allu Arjun's birthday on Tuesday.
  
  Vietnamese thriller Bunny!! was booked at South Bay last week without a lot of lead time and continues this week; it features the host of a romantic advice podcast dealing with an obsessive, masked caller and her visiting sister.
  
  Korean film The King's Warden continues playing matinees at Causeway Street.
• The Brattle Theatre is home base for Wicked Queer all the way through next Sunday, with other screenings at the Coolidge (Saturday to Monday).
  
  The Brattle also has Waiting for Guffman as the 35mm Friday Film Matinee, and Easter weekend shows of the original cut of Donnie Darko on Friday & Saturday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Babe Saturday & Tuesday for the animal movie Retro Replay and Maps to the Stars Sunday & Wednesday for the Robert Pattinson filmmaker focus.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston does a six-months-later check-in with Family Matters, a drama spanning 24 years and four "seasons" (which also double as the characters' names) in a Taiwanese family, plays ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater on Saturday evening, with director Pan Ke-Yin on hand for a Q&A. The night before, Raoul Pecks Orwell: 2+2=5 plays that room with a post-film discussion with community leaders.
• The Harvard Film Archive pays tribute to Bob Hoskins on Friday with prints of The Long Good Friday (obviously) and Mona Lisa. The Masahiro Shinoda series continues on Saturday with Assassination and Samruai Spy. There's more sold-out Kubrick with Barry Lyndon on Sunday and The Shining on Monday, but seats may be available at showtime if there are no-shows (I think this is in support of a course, so some are probably held back for students). It's another weekend where everything is on 35mm film, though Thursday's free (with registration) screening of The Dutchman with director Andre Gaines and actor André Holland on-hand is digital.
• Jeff Rapsis visits the The Regent Theatre on Saturday evening to accompany Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings.
• A Magnificent Life plays one last show at The Somerville Theatre on Monday (note that it's in English; I'm guessing we won't get the original French-language version until home video). Repertory fare the rest of the week has an "International Beaver Day" screening of Hundreds of Beavers on Tuesday, The Commitments on 35mm for the Wednesday "Feel Good Films", and indie comedy-drama Lady Parts with post-film panel discussion on Thursday.
• The Seaport Alamo doubles up on Chow Yun-Fat classics with Ringo Lam's City on Fire playing Monday/Tuesday/Thursday (they're also showing The Killer). A "Best of Betty Boop" collection plays Monday & Tuesday; Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps plays Tuesday, and there's an early-access screening of Faces of Death on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has the closing night of The Boston Turkish Film Festival with Apollon by Day Athena by Night on Friday and By Design, in which Juliette Lewis swaps bodies with a chair, on Saturday afternoon.
  
  (It's actually the Turkish Film & Music Festival, with the music program beginning Saturday the 11th and running through 22 May,
• Movies at MIT lists Illusions Perdues as playing Friday night, but no further information on the site; it may be the star-studded 2021 adaptation of a novel by Honoré de Balzac.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Fantasy Life, Tow (no show Sunday), and The AI Doc (no show Sunday). There's a free screening of The Long Good Friday on Friday afternoon, EPiC plays Saturday & Thursday, "Davey & Goliath: Happy Easter" shows for free on Saturday; the 2026 New York Cat FIlm Festival encores Saturday morning, with the complementary 2026 New York Dog Film Festival having its first show on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens The Drama and continues The AI Doc (Behind the Screen show on Wednesday), The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Project Hail Mary, Hoppers, Pillion, and Hamnet. Grand Canyon-shot drama Granite Rapids Moon plays Saturday evening, followed by a remote Q&A with writer/director Kenneth Cran & producer John Charles Meyer. Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's House plays Thursday for Ty Burr's Movie Club. The Belmont World Film presentation on Monday is French crime thriller Case 137.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre brings back EPiC alongside Fantasy Life and The AI Doc.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Project Hail Mary, The Drama, Super Mario ("Reset Button" plays a set to open on Saturday afternoon!) and Hoppers from Friday to Monday. Chaplin's City Lights is the Wednesday Classic, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.
  
  Out in Danvers, the Liberty Tree Mall AMC has Tamera Hill thriller The Secret Between Us, starring Michael Jai White.

Might be a (relatively) slow week my Letterboxd page because I've got two Red Sox tickets this week, but in the meantime, I'll probably check out The Drama and Fantasy Life, maybe doing some catchup and checking out one or two things at Wicked Queer that look interesting.