tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54862582024-03-17T22:03:30.768-05:00Jay's Movie BlogI see a lot of movies, and have an opinion on most of 'em.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.comBlogger3531125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-87905119624650123572024-03-15T11:49:00.000-05:002024-03-15T11:49:44.759-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 15 March 2024 - 21 March 2024As much as I am looking forward to seeing Love Lies Bleeding this weekend - it looks cool! - I'm also looking forward to two months from now, when it leaves theaters, and neither listings nor posters cause the Elton John song to play on repeat in my head. It's led me to look up "love lies bleeding" and discover that both the film and song are likely named after a flower, though, so that's fun.
Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-81733857608982343302024-03-08T14:31:00.004-05:002024-03-08T16:04:32.324-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 8 March 2024 - 14 March 2024Here's a "maybe there's some falloff from the big debut, or maybe stuff doesn't get an Oscar boost, but let's not chance the prospects on something really big on it" slate of releases.
I'm kind of surprised DreamWorks didn't release Kung Fu Panda 4 a month ago for Lunar New Year, but apparently it's not Chinese enough to play there during the blackout period. This one appears to skip the Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-11657256573991017482024-03-06T19:00:00.000-05:002024-03-06T19:00:12.759-05:00This Week in Tickets: 26 February 2024 - 3 March 2024 (Slow Week)Very slow new release weekend, very lazy get-out-of-the-apartment mid-week.
This week kicked off with one of my favorite Boston-area moviegoing experiences, the kind of disreputable movie at a fancy institution. In this case, it was Cotton Comes to Harlem at the Harvard Film Archive. In this case, it was shown in conjunction with the University's Houghton Library, which has acquired star Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-13924240187901724662024-03-03T14:29:00.001-05:002024-03-03T14:29:20.898-05:00The Moon ThievesMe, last week: "And, with this in theaters, I think that we're probably through with Lunar New Year movies for a bit."
So, not the case - we got this on Friday, because there's apparently a limit to just how much Dune Boston Common could play with two other multiplexes a pretty easy walk or subway ride away. I honestly don't know if it would have played North America in general or Boston Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-24485821078326327892024-03-01T12:10:00.001-05:002024-03-01T12:10:59.213-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 1 March 2024 - 7 March 2024So, who here wouldn't have watched Dune: Part Two if they'd released it in November or whenever without the cast around to promoting it?
(Is reminded how well that went for The Marvels.)
Well, okay, big movie this week!
Dune: Part Two is pretty close to it for wide releases this week, and it's getting all the big screens, playing the Coolidge (70mm), the Somerville (mostly 70mm), the Capitol, Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-58522065920086228332024-02-29T17:00:00.002-05:002024-02-29T17:00:20.285-05:00Fantasia Movie in a Theater This Weekend: Hundreds of BeaversI didn't actually have to move this review up out of order because it was the next thing to come out in theaters - Hundreds of Beavers was next on my list of Fantasia reviews - but finishing the Film Rolls is taking longer than expected, so I'm just going to put this first entry in the next post up right now. Hundreds of Beavers is at the Somerville Theatre this weekend - including a midnight Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-88679052451330644112024-02-29T00:21:00.002-05:002024-02-29T00:22:22.635-05:00This Week in Tickets: 19 February 2024 - 25 February 2024 (Annoyingly Good Programming)Sure, I said, I'll just get the Alamo Drafthouse membership because it'll pay for itself with two movies or so a month, but probably won't use it for much more, especially since they're all the way down in the Seaport.
Moviegoing kicked off on Tuesday when I finally got around to Pegasus 2, which may be the biggest Lunar New Year movie for the Year of the Dragon. It's not bad, although also Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-55664691626768524422024-02-27T01:11:00.000-05:002024-02-27T01:11:07.567-05:00Article 20And, with this in theaters, I think that we're probably through with Lunar New Year movies for a bit. Sony Pictures Classics apparently has the right to YOLO, the new comedy from the director and star of Hi Mom!, which was a massive hit in the People's Republic a few years back but never made it here. I'm curious as to what Sony's plan is with that - it doesn't scream art-house sleeper or soundJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-65058308264052528332024-02-25T10:54:00.002-05:002024-02-25T10:54:39.769-05:00Pegasus x2Pegasus 2 appears to be one of the two big Chinese hits for Lunar New Year, heading into its third weekend at Boston Common, after pretty decent crowds during weekend #2. I don't recall how well the first did back in 2019, when it was also a LNY release. Not quite so well, I don't think - it seems to have come and gone before I got to the theater to see it - but Boston is not Beijing, and it Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-81435968595730688212024-02-23T13:33:00.000-05:002024-02-23T13:33:03.957-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 23 February 2024 - 29 February 2024Man, you can really feel the studios and theaters stretching to fill screens right now. I hope it will be better next year when we're further past the plagues and strikes and all, but we could also be down to like two or three major studios by then.
The latest Coen Brothers solo project, Ethan's Drive-Away Dolls, opens at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, CinemasSalem, Boston Common, Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-58689657538316137872024-02-20T23:15:00.002-05:002024-02-25T16:43:15.071-05:00This Week in Tickets: 12 February 2024 - 18 February 2024 (Getting Ready)Quite the odd week for movie-watching; not so much a deliberate attempt to slow down after the previous week, although it worked out that way.
The week splits into two parts easily enough. During the week, I was getting ready for a couple of Part IIs. First up was streaming Pegasus, shockingly very available ahead of the sequel arriving in theaters for the Lunar New Year. This never Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-46892000594211600392024-02-17T12:32:00.003-05:002024-02-17T12:36:00.268-05:00This Week in Tickets: 5 February 2024 - 11 February 2024 (Jean Arthur Week, Part II)What a "living at the Brattle" week looks like, if you don't remember.
So, yes, as was the plan last week, I did that whole Jean Arthur series, and was kind of amused when I saw a review on Letterboxd for More Than a Secretary that read "Jean Arthur was gay, PERIODT!" because one looks at her biography and wonders if she wasn't somehow queer: One annulled marriage, one that produced no Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-63102864184168239692024-02-14T11:47:00.000-05:002024-02-14T11:47:57.566-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 14 February 2024 - 22 February 2024Happy Valentine's Day! And President's Day! And April Vacation for folks with kids! Let's keep busy with movies!
The most romantic thing going is probably The Taste of Things, which features Juliette Binoche as a personal chef to an aristocrat played by Benoit Magimel, who has loved her for years but never been able to convince her to marry him. It's at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-59499655851779951612024-02-12T20:05:00.003-05:002024-02-12T20:05:28.561-05:00The Movie Emperor.Another quiet Hong Kong movie night at the theater, although when you go to a movie during the Super Bowl, that's how it goes. As I mention in the review, I was kind of hoping for a crowd so that I could get a bit more of a sense of how well it plays to its intended audience, but, nope.
Still, I dig it, and it's one I'd recommend to my independent film friends who really like movies about Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-27030335840865546182024-02-10T13:26:00.004-05:002024-02-10T13:26:34.348-05:00Table for Six 2.Is this the Hong Kong Chinese New Year comedy, because I was given to understand that those end with the cast breaking character and wishing the audience a happy new year.
Anyway, not quite just me at the 6:15pm screening on Causeway Street, but pretty close. I'll be curious to see if The Movie Emperor or Pegasus 2 is drawing better over at the Common. Not getting into how I don't understand Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-7760255508445757812024-02-09T11:21:00.001-05:002024-02-09T11:21:52.993-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 9 February 2024 - 13 February 2024Valentine's Day is on a Wednesday this year, with a fair amount of turnover, so we'll treat it kind of like Thanksgiving with a short Next Week leading up to it and then cover 9 days next week.
I don't think I've ever seen a movie promote a writer in the trailers so much as Lisa Frankenstein, which very much wants you to know it comes from Jennifer's Body screenwriter Diablo Cody, and stars Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-52343011766047848672024-02-07T14:52:00.001-05:002024-02-07T14:52:36.367-05:00Film Rolls, Round 23: The Internecine Project and The Bad News BearsThe previous update had our guys in 2019 South Korea, but a couple quick rolls of the dice are getting them into the last regular cube!
Mookie, rolling first, gets us to The Internecine Project, which is one of my favorite genres of stuff that comes from Kino Lorber sales: James Coburn movies that make you wonder how he became a first-name-on-the-poster movie star when he never played a Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-3573679688944063682024-02-06T22:56:00.000-05:002024-02-06T22:56:01.827-05:00This Week in Tickets: 29 January 2024 - 4 February 2024 (Jean Arthur Week, Part I)Been doing this over a decade and still feel kind of weird about splitting Brattle rep series up like this. It's one thing when they're vertical, or something occasional like with the HFA/Coolidge/Alamo, but my desire to make a big post is often what gets things derailed.
So, last week was one of those weeks where showtimes just didn't work - temperature's low enough that I'm not hanging Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-60640486235535077642024-02-02T10:05:00.000-05:002024-02-02T10:05:33.149-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 2 February 2024 - 8 February 2024Kind of got some Oscar ennui going, how about you? Like, if I were really terribly interested in Poor Things, American Fiction, and The Zone of Interest, I'd have seen them by now, but I'm waiting for just the right mood to hit me even though they're just down the street.
<Apparently a lot of people are more annoyed by the Argylle trailer than I am, but it goes away as the film comes out, with Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-86818627503073613882024-01-31T22:08:00.001-05:002024-01-31T22:08:23.231-05:00Fantasia (and Adjacent) Movies in Theaters This Weekend: She Is Conann and Sometimes I Think About DyingFor a moment or three, I had a false memory of She Is Conann playing Fantasia last summer but it just not being something I could fit into my schedule. Surprisingly enough, none of Bertrand Mandico's features have played that festival, though perhaps the shorts have; they seemingly are always timed better for something else.
Anyway, I liked both of these odd movies quite a bit, and since I Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-35286403812360251662024-01-30T23:43:00.002-05:002024-01-30T23:59:18.404-05:00This Week in Tickets: 22 January 2024 - 28 January 2024 (Ow, My Back)Heh, fun thing below: You can pretty clearly tell that the AMC in Boston Common is still using rolls of printer paper from a marketing campaign that's at least five years old (may be closer to ten), with all the morphing little balls, while the new-to-them place in Causeway Street has newer ones that just use the logo.
(Note: Both places have just started their fifth year of celebrating 100 Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-6836972695549418042024-01-30T12:40:00.002-05:002024-01-30T23:52:53.365-05:00Chinese Double Feature: Rob N Roll & The StormI've joked before about how I'm pretty sure that the local multiplexes deliberately schedule things to make people hanging around for a double feature difficult, because folks aren't likely to visit the concession stand, where a theater's real money is made, twice in a single afternoon. Heck, since most places let you pour your own Coke, customers can pretty easily get a refill even if you're Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-26201400462574053092024-01-28T22:11:00.000-05:002024-01-28T22:11:08.093-05:00FighterIt's not unusual for Indian movies to start with a wall of disclaimers to let you know that no offense was intended or harm was done - recall, for instance, the very specific list of animals we are assured were CGI-created in RRR - but the one before Fighter was absolutely crazy, in English but too much to take in even for those of for whom it is our first language. Some of it, I suspect, is Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-25706515849828875832024-01-26T11:39:00.002-05:002024-01-26T11:39:56.170-05:00Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 26 January 2024 - 1 February 2024A movie whose release was built around the Oscars gets no nominations, enough nominees were released early enough that they have to get brought back, and that squeezes the movie I most wanted this weekend out. It's a goofy weekend!
That big release is Origin, which looks to be something between Ava Duvernay adapting Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste and making a film about the research and writing Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-65992301631623642412024-01-25T22:41:00.000-05:002024-01-25T22:41:03.244-05:00Johnny Keep Walking!
Not the same Asian Film Corner as the last few times, but when all your posters are actually HDTVs, you can throw up "current Chinese movies playing, plus the one opening Friday" for a half-hour on either side of the movie's start time, and then change it up, as they were showing something different when I left.
Interesting thing: AMC definitely added more showtimes for Johnny Keep Walking! Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.com0