Sadly, you've got to head out to Methuen to see the movie (not even Danvers!), so onto what's playing within reach of the T.
- The biggest release this week is an actual romantic comedy, with You, Me & Tuscany featuring Halle Bailey taking advantage of a villa in Italy that a friend told her was empty, only to be mistaken for his fiancée and subsequently falling for his hunky cousin Regé-Jean Page. It plays Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Australian MMA movie Beast has co-writer Russell Crowe in a supporting role as main fighter Daniel MacPherson's trainer, with action specialist Bren Foster as the opponent and also handling fight choreography. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
The new Faces of Death is apparently a meta-movie, with Barbie Ferreira as a website moderator coming across recreations of scenes from the infamous original. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Hunting Matthew Nichols stars Miranda MacDougall as a filmmaker following the trail of the brother who vanished twenty years earlier, found-footage style; it's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Arsenal Yards.
Another horror-adjacent movie, Newborn, stars David Oyelowo as a recently-paroled prisoner having difficulty adjusting to the outside world, is released as an AMC exclusive at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Writer/director Nate Parker was expected to be a big thing ten years ago before a rape accusation resurfaced.
Historical drama Palestine '36, the eponymous region's Oscar submission, mostly plays matinees at Boston Common.
There's a BTS: World Tour Arirang "Live Viewing" at Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Saturday (well, with two showtimes, at least one must be on tape, right?). Mystery screenings at Causeway Street, Boston Common, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday; non-mystery previews of The Christophers at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema) on Sunday and Over Your Dead Body at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Wednesday. Jerry Maguire has anniversary shows at Boston Common Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday. Boston Common has Imax doc Space Station 3D on Saturday morning; Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams plays in Imax 3D on Wednesday at Boston Common and Assembly Row; Boston Common starts a limited run of Imax Le Mans doc 2DIE4 on Thursday. - A new version of Hamlet opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Kendall Square, and Boston Common; it stars Riz Ahmed and also recasts many of the other characters as Desi and places the action in contemporary London.
The Coolidge also continues to show Project Hail Mary in 70mm when it's on screen #1 are 70mm, while weekend shows of The Drama (on screen #2) are 35mm. Midnight bio-horror shows at the Coolidge this weekend are Godzilla vs. Biollante on Friday and Return of the Killer Tomatoes (with early-career George Clooney!) on Saturday, with The Room showing on another screen that day. Saturday afternoon features a Cinema Masala show of Silsila, a 1981 classic featuring superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha; there's Open Screen on Tuesday; and History of the World: Part I as part of the Mel Brooks Centennial on Wednesday. The theater appears to be dark on Thursday.
Sunday also has them segue from Wicked Queer to The National Center for Jewish FIlm's 2026 Festival, with The Burning Cross and Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold on Sunday, I Have Sinned on Monday, All I Had Was Nothingness on Tuesday, and We Met at Grossinger's on Wednesday, with The Safe House at the MFA on Thursday. - Japanese film Exit 8 has the "8" doubling for an infinity sign, I bet; it's based on a video game where a lost commuter is trying to find his way out of a subway station that is seemingly hermetically sealed with mind-bending "anomalies" throughout. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row.
The week's new Indian movies at Apple Fresh Pond include Tamil fantasy romcom LIK: Love Insurance Kompany; Telugu-language action film Dacoit: A Love Story (also at Boston Common, Causeway Street); Malayalam-language Vaazha II: Biopic of a Billion Bros from Friday to Sunday (maybe the same four guys as in Biopic of a Billion Boys, maybe not). Dhurandhar The Revenge continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common, for some reason almost always at times that see it end after midnight.
Boston Common opens another fighter-returns-to-the-ring movie, Hong Kong's Golden Boy, with Louis Cheung as an ex-con meeting his son for the first time. Familiar faces Eric Tsang and Lam Suet are in supporting roles.
Vietnamese thriller Bunny!! continues at South Bay. - Wicked Queer continues through Sunday, mostly at the Brattle but with other screenings at The Museum of Fine Arts (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), Coolidge (Saturday), and Somerville (Sunday).
The Brattle Theatre also has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as the 35mm Friday Film Matinee (for International Brothers' Day), matinees of Singin' in the Rain Saturday & Sunday with a lights-up crafting show on Monday, a special premiere of John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office on Monday with co-director Courtney Stephens in person for a post-film Q&A, and opens My Father's Shadow on Thursday. - Landmark Kendall Square has Stuart Little Saturday & Tuesday for the animal movie Retro Replay and Good Time Sunday & Wednesday for the Robert Pattinson filmmaker focus.
- The Capitol Theatre has Rear Window as part of "Capitol Classics" on Friday evening; the 4th Wall show with Circle Drive & FRND CRCL doesn't start until 9pm, so it shouldn't bleed over too much. They also pick up Project Hail Mary.
The Somerville Theatre continues playing The Drama on 35mm film around live events Friday & Saturday and Wicked Queer on Sunday. They also have The Shawshank Redemption on 35mm Wednesday and a print of I Live Here Now, which I found interestingly surreal at Fantasia though I imagine it speaks more to women, on Thursday. - The Seaport Alamo has Ghost World late Friday; Something Wild Saturday afternoon; Fantasia/BUFF alum The Serpent's Skin Saturday night; Steve McQueen & Ali McGraw in The Getaway Sunday; a Pride & Prejudice movie party Monday; It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This for Terror Tuesday and HIgh Plains Drifter for regular Tuesday; City Wide Fever for Weird Wednesday; and Police Story, possibly Jackie Chan's best stunt spectacular, on Thursday.
- The Harvard Film Archive surrounds the weekend with sold-out screenings (though you're welcome to try your luck in the rush line), as Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave plays Friday night and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket runs on film Monday. There's a "Student Cinematheque" double feature on Saturday afternoon pairing 35mm prints of Visions of Eight & The Suspended Step of the Stork; they also start their Béla Tarr/László Krasznahorkai series with Wreckmeister Harmonies on 35mm film Saturday evening and Damnation Sunday afternoon.
- The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston is off at my alma mater WPI on Thursday for a screening of A Chip Odyssey.
- The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday and Thursday with Fantasy Life and Hamlet. New York Dog Film Festival has an encore Saturday afternoon.
The West Newton Cinema opens Hamlet and holds over The Drama, The AI Doc, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Project Hail Mary, and Pillion. The Belmont World Film presentation on Monday is Bolivian drama The Condor Daughter, with an introduction by linguist Susan Kalt.
The Dedham Community Theatre has EPiC, Fantasy Life, and The AI Doc.
Cinema Salem plays Project Hail Mary, The Drama, Super Mario, Forbidden Fruit, and Pillion from Friday to Monday. Friday's Night Light show is She-Devils on Wheels and The African Queen is the Wednesday Classic, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.
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