Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 5 September 2025 - 11 September 2024

Big movie news: The MBTA is running service an hour later - and for free on weekends during September - so there are more options for seeing stuff that starts late!

• Big release this week is The Conjuring: Last Rites, which could be the finale of this series that treats a married pair of real-world "exorcists" like the real thing! Or not! It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subs), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is The Threesome, in which a three-way hookup becomes truly ill-conceived as both women wind up pregnant. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  After opening at the Coolidge, the Kendall, and Boston Common last week, Splitsville expands to the Somerville, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  The Broadway performance of Hamilton that went to Disney+ back when theaters were closed in 2020 gets a wide release, playing at West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Light of the World, an animated film about the life of Jesus (didn't we just have on of these?) told from the perspective of the apostle John, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  The Breakfast Club has 40th anniversary shows at the Seaport Saturday & Monday and at Boston Common and South Bay on Sunday & Wednesday. There are Wednesday Early Access Screenings for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (CWX), and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues in Imax at Jordan's, Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row (probably the only Imax shows as Demon Slayer takes most screens Friday.
• Twinless opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre; with writer/director James Sweeney co-starring as one of two folks who meet at a support group for people who have lost a twin. It also plays Kendall Square, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  The last few screenings of Jaws, through Sunday, play on 35mm film at the Cooldige. The midnight series at the Coolidge for September is the first batch of restorations of the long-unavailable outside-Asia Golden Princess library, starting with A Better Tomorrow on Friday and City on Fire on Saturday, with Hundreds of Beavers also playing late Saturday. The 2025 CatVideoFest plays Sunday afternoon; Monday night offers a Panorama screening of Your Fat Friend; Tuesday has a special screening of Lesbian Space Princess; Wednesday has a "Page to Screen" show of the Cocteau Beauty of the Beast with Nicholas Elliott, who has translated a book about the film, on-hand; and Thursday has both a Rewind! Show of Clueless and an early show of The Baltimorons wite writer/producer/star Michael Strassner on-hand.
• Love, Brooklyn, a romance involving two connected couples in the titular borough, opens at Landmark Kendall Square and Boston Common. The Retro Replay series at Kendall Square for September is anniversary screenings, starting with Airplane! on Tuesday.
• The Somerville Theatre opens animated coming-of-age comedy Boys Go to Jupiter for a limited run Friday to Sunday. It gives way to rep shows during the week, with V for Vendetta on 35mm film Monday, and documentary featurette "Holding Up the Sky", with director Bob Nesson on hand to discuss his film about about two men who met in prison after killing their abusers as teenagers, on Wednesday. There's also a secret 35mm members' screening on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre opens A Little Prayer, with David Strathairn as a man who discovers his son is having an affair and finds himself mostly worried about how it will affect his daughter-in-law. They also begin a series of screenings celebrating their 100th anniversary, with a restored The Gold Rush playing Saturday night. Finally, there's a "Gothic Cabaret" with Velvet Dirtmunchers and Charming Disaster on Thursday.
• New South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond include Hindi-language historical drama The Bengal Files, Hindi-language thriller Baaghi 4 (also at Boston Common), Tamil-language thriller Madharasi, Telugu-language crime flick Ghaati, and Telugu-language romance Little Hearts (through Sunday). Held over are Malayalam-language action-fantasy Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra and Hindi-language romance Param Sundari.
  
  Animated Chinese adventure The Legend of Hei 2 opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street (the original is, thankfully, easily streamable). Chinese holdovers are Jackie Chan in The Shadow's Edge at Boston Common and Dead to Rights at Causeway Street.
  
  Vietnamese drama Leaving Mom (Mang Me Di Bo) continues at South Bay.
  
  Upcoming anime blockbuster Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has a "Crunchroll Subscriber Early Access Screening" at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema) on Tuesday.
• The Seaport Alamo opens Preparation for the Next Life, a romantic drama about an Uyghur refugee and an American soldier who meet in New York, playing all week.
  
  In rep, they continue Nightmare on Elm Street screenings with #2 (Freddy's Revenge) Friday and #3 (Dream Warriors) Saturday, and Harry Potter movies with #5 (Half-Blood Prince) on Saturday/Sunday. There are member previews of Twinless on Tuesday and Preparation for the Next Life on Wednesday. There's one last show of Jaws on Sunday, and a movie party for the original This Is Spinal Tap on Tuesday.
• The Brattle Theatre has the Quay Brothers' first feature in 20 years, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a surreal combination of live action and stop-motion with a man seeking his father in a strange asylum - in since it's not long for a feature, they're also showing the Quays' 1986 short "Street of Crocodiles" with it! Friday through Sunday, it splits the screen with a restoration of Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge. On Tuesday, they have a new restoration of Tsui Hark's screwball comedy Shanghai Blues. Wednesday and Thursday feature two episodes Twin Peaks: The Return each, while Thursday offers a 35mm matinee of The Palm Beach Story and an evening show of The Darjeeling LImited.
• The Harvard Film Archive mostly spends the weekend with Hong Sang-soo: On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (35mm Friday evening), In Another Country (35mm Friday night), Hahaha (35mm Sunday afternoon), Hill of Freedom (Sunday evening), and A Traveler's Needs (Monday evening). The free series of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films with Lover's Rock and Red, White and Blue on Saturday.
• The rerelease of Jaws is held over for straggling shows at various places, most notably The Museum of Science and The New England Aquarium, who both have them on their Imax screens Friday & Saturday evenings.
• Movies at MIT has Conclave Friday & Saturday; open to the public but give them a heads-up if you're not part of the MIT community.
• Joe's Free Films has the sing-along version of Wicked outside at Boston Landing on Saturday evening.
• The Embassy in Waltham doesn't seem to be a regular going concern these days, but they've got a listing for indie Everyone Asked About You on Wednesday.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but with Eden, My Mother's Wedding, and Jaws. They have another screening of Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light on Saturday with art historian Nancy Scott, and also screen The Last Class Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Twinless and Hamilton, holding over Shari & Lamb Chop, Caught Stealing, Honey Don't!, Highest 2 Lowest, and Rebel with a Clause. There's a "Behind the Screen" presentation and discussion of Caught By the Tides on Sunday afternoon and a Ty Burr's Movie Club screening of Michael Clayton on Thursday.
  
  Cinema Salem has Weapons, Jaws, The Roses, and The Conjuring: Last Rites through Monday. Stalag 17 is the Wednesday Classic with Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall, and Creepshow plays Thursday.
  
  Indie comedy Griffin in Summer joins drama A Little Prayer at the Dedham Community Theatre, with writer/direector Nicholas Colia on hand Sunday evening. The Liberty Tree Mall in Davers is playing Pools, which sounds like a modern distaff riff on The Swimmer, and Everything to Me, aka The Book of Jobs, about a girl growing up in Silicon Valley and idolizing Steve Jobs.

New Quay Brothers! Splitsville & The Threesome look like fun! Three restored Hong Kong movies I can get to and maybe even make it home afterwards! Boys Go to Jupiter looks neat! There's an actual reason to take the airport bus to the Alamo! It is a fun weekend even if you've never seen a Conjuring movie and grow more actively hostile to them the more you learn!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 29 August 2025 - 4 September 2024

Labor Day weekend, where you wonder if the big movies coming out are the studios sensing an opportunity or their being kind of disasters.

• Like, Caught Stealing comes from director Darren Aronofsky, has a pretty nice cast led by Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, and the like, and looks like a fun loopy crime story. So why this weekend rather than something where people aren't traveling and moving? It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  And then there's The Roses, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in an adaptation of War of the Roses directed by Jay Roach, and who knows where it will land between his goofy and high-minded movies. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The long-shelved remake of The Toxic Avenger - written and directed by Macon Blair and featuring Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Taylor Paige, and more - opens at Boston Common, the Seaport, South Bay, and CinemaSalem. Run, a sci-fi/horror in which a bunch of young women doing a girls' trip after one has a bad breakup only to find themselves cut off from help during an alien invasion, plays at Boston Common.
  
  Universal returns Jaws to the big screen nationwide for its 50th anniversary, which is why it has ironically played much less than usual around here this summer. It's at the Coolidge (35mm at 7pm Friday to Monday), the Somerville (4K), Fresh Pond, The Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), The New England Aquarium (Imax Thursday through next Saturday), Jordan's Furniture (Imax), the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  An Imax release of Prince: Sign O The Times plays Jordan's Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row for the weekend.
  
  The live-action Lilo & Stitch returns to Boston Common, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  MMA drama American Warrior, which I seem to recall had a few previews at Fresh Pond earlier this summer, opens there for its regular engagement.
  
  Concert film The Warning Live from Auditorio Nacional, CDMX has another weekend at Boston Common. There's mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. Batman & Batman Returns> have encore Dolby Cinema shows at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets a 35mm print of Lurker, which plays on the main screen whenever Jaws doesn't. It's a thriller about an ordinary guy who becomes friends with a rising star. It plays digitally at Boston Common.
  
  Also opening at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, Boston Common before going wide next week is Splitsville, in which a man in a failing marriage discovers that his friends have stayed together by having an open one, but inserting himself into that causes chaos.
  
  The August midnight series at the Coolidge closes out with Them (Ils) on Friday and a 35mm print of John Carpenter's Village of the Damned on Saturday. On Sunday, they have a special screening of The Farmer & The Shark, with director John Campopiano on-hand to talk about his documentary on Craig Kingsbury, a Martha's Vineyard-er who worked behind the scenes on Jaws and became the model for Robert Shaw's portrayal of Quint. The Big Screen Classic on Thursday is a restoration of The Sting
• The Somerville Theatre opens French black comedy The Balconettes, with writer/director Noémie Merlant playing one of three women causing trouble from a Marseilles balcony during a heat wave. They supplement the Jaws re-release with Japanese cult-hopeful spoof Hot Spring Shark Attack on Friday & Saturday, and have A Star Is Born '54 (35mm) & '18 (digital) for "The Great Remakes" on Monday (starting early).
  
  The Capitol Theatre has an "RKO Army Live Shadowcast" screening of Troll 2 on Saturday night.
• Is it a holiday weekend in the Malayalam-speaking portion of India? Apple Fresh Pond opens Malayalam-language action-fantasy Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra; Malayalam-language romance Hridayapoorvam; Malayalam-language romantic comedy Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira; plus Hindi-language romance Param Sundari; Hindi-lnaguage thriller 55; Telugu-language drama Sundarakanda (also at Boston Common, Causeway Street). Boston Common holds over War 2 and Coolie.
  
  Vietnamese drama Leaving Mom (Mang Me Di Bo) plays Causeway Street and South Bay.
  
  Chinese holdovers are Jackie Chan in The Shadow's Edge at Boston Common and Causeway Street; Dead to Rights at Causeway Street, and the English-dubbed Ne Zha II at the Capitol, Boston Common (including RealD 3D), Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  The new 4K transfer of Shin Godzilla continues at Boston Common, with B&W "Orthocrhomatic" shows at Boston Common and Assembly Row on Sunday.
• The Brattle Theatre starts their fall calendar with "Cat Fancy: A Feline Film Feast", featuring An American Tail: Fivel Goes West (35mm Friday Film Matinee), Flow (Friday/Monday/Thursday), Kedi (Friday/Monday), The Night of 1000 Cats (Friday 35mm), Kiki's Delivery Service (dubbed Saturday/subtitled Sunday), Bell, Book and Candle & Amélie (Saturday), Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (Saturday), The Cat from Outer Space & The Marvels (Sunday), Eye of the Cat & The Shadow of the Cat (35mm Sunday), The Third Man (Monday/Tuesday), The Black Cat (35mm Monday), Cat City & Felidae (Tuesday), Inside Llewyn Davis (Wednesday), The Cassandra Cat (Thursday), and Alien (Thursday).
• The Harvard Film Archive isn't doing a Labor Day Marathon this year (sniff), but does have a bunch of Hong Sang-soo: The Power of Kangwoon Province (35mm Friday evening/Sunday afternoon), Grass (Friday night), Hill of Freedom (Saturday evening), Hahaha (35mm Saturday night), and In Our Day(Sunday evening). They start a free series of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films with Mangrove on Monday.
• The Seaport Alamo starts weekly Nightmare on Elm Street screenings with the original on Friday/Monday, has Ran for Saturday Swordplay (encores Sunday/Tuesday), two from Scorsese with CasinoAfter Hours Saturday, the fourth Harry Potter movie (Order of the Phoenix) on Sunday/Wednesday. There are member previews of Twinless on Tuesday and Preparation for the Next Life on Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has a Tuesday "Festival Cinema" show with Nashville.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week with Honey Don't and Jaws. Nothing Solid has an encore Sunday afternoon with ticket sales donated to the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens biographical documentary Shari & Lamb Chop, which has been kicking around the festival circuit a couple of years, as well as Caught Stealing and Jaws, keeping Honey Don't!, Highest 2 Lowest, and Rebel with a Clause.
  
  Cinema Salem has Weapons, Jaws, The Roses, and The Toxic Avenger through Monday. Citizen Kane plays Saturday afternoon with Grand Hotel for the Wednesday Classic (Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall).
  
  Drama A Little Prayer is at the Dedham Community Theatre and Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers. High school comedy Almost Popular and golf drama The Short Game are at the Liberty Tree Mall

I've got a little catching up to do, but will probably try to catch Caught Stealing, The Balconettes and some of the cat stuff at the Brattle (there's some real oddities). Not sure where to go for Jaws - the Coolidge for 35mm, someplace with the neat 3D conversion that they'll probably never put on disc, or the Aquarium for enormity?

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 22 August 2025 - 28 August 2024

There are four Chinese movies at a couple local theaters this weekend, including one release that kind of fascinates me.

• That would be Ne Zha 2, which was an absolute beast at the Chinese box office for Lunar New Year, setting the record for highest-grossing animated film with over $2 billion in tickets sold, and even hanging around local screens for weeks longer than usual. I thought they were leaving money on the table not having a dubbed version, and A24 has decided to see if that's the case, re-releasing it wide with English dialog (most notably including Michelle Yeoh). It's at the Capitol, the Coolidge, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday/Saturday), Boston Common (including Imax 3D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D & Mandarin RealD 3D), the Kendall, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax 3D & RealD 3D), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 3D & RealD 3D).
  
  Director Ethan Coen, wife & co-writer Tricia Cooke, and star Margaret Qualley re-unite for another quick & queer genre flick, with Honey Don't featuring Qualey as a private eye investigating a suspicious death that most of the cops are ignoring. It's at the Somerville, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Relay is an indie thriller starring Lily James as someone who has come upon information she doesn't wish to have and Riz Ahmed as the operative who will try to return it for her, maintaining security by communicating through relay stations meant for the Deaf. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Kendall Square.
  
  The week's "sitting around since Toronto last year" is Eden, with Ron Howard directing a pretty great cast (Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruhl, Sydney Sweeney) as a group that settle on a remote island and soon themselves at each other's throats. It plays Boston Common. Also at Boston Common is Hollywood Grit, with Max Martini as private detective Grit Thorn, searching the underbelly of Los Angeles for his missing daughter.
  
  Trust plays Boston Common, with Sophie Turner playing an actress hiding from a scandal in a remote cabin, eventually dealing with the mayhem that comes with being in a remote cabin. Primitive War also plays Boston Common via Fathom through Monday, with a few familiar B-listers (Tricia Helfer, Jeremy Piven, Nick Wechsler) separated from their unit in 1968 Vietnam and coming up against dinosaurs.
  
  South Bay opened Hell House LLC: Lineage, the fifth film in a series I'm just now hearing about, on Wednesday; it also plays the Seaport on Friday.
  
  Two Judd Apatow movies get anniversary releases, with The 40-Year-Old Virgin at Boston Common , the Seaport, and Arsenal Yards (Tuesday only) and Trainwreck at Boston Common and the Seaport. There's also 40th anniversary screenings of Clue Sunday to Tuesday at Boston Common and the Seaport (no Monday Show), presumably one ending per night.
  
  If you want to see K-Pop Demon Hunters but don't have Netflix, it's having a "Special Sing-Along Event" on Saturday & Saturday at Fresh Pond, West Newton, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Chestnut Hill. There will be karaoke lyrics on-screen during the songs.
  
  The Warning Live from Uditorio Nacional returns for a weekend run at Boston Common; Yungblud, Are You Ready, Boy? plays Boston Common on Sunday. Documentary Girl Climber plays in Imax Laser at Jordan's and Boston Common on Sunday evening. There's a preview of Caught Stealing at Boston Common, Kendall Square, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill on Saturday and an Early Access show of The Roses at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Kendall Square, South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill on Wednesday. The Imax remaster of Black Swan encores at Jordan's, Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Sunday. The Tim Burton Batman & Batman Returns play Monday in Dolby Cinema at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• New movies from the subcontinent at Apple Fresh Pond include Telugu-language drama Paradha, Malayalam-language adventure Sahasam (playing early shows), and afternoon shows of Bengali-language drama Dear Maa on Saturday & Sunday. Held over are War 2 at Fresh Pond (Hindi), Boston Common (Hindi) and Coolie at Fresh Pond (Tamil/Telugu/Hindi), Boston Common (Tamil), and South Bay (Tamil).
  
  Also opening from China are Dongji Rescue, which has a Japanese ship crash off the coast of China, with the villagers rescuing and hiding prisoners, playing at Boston Common and Causeway Street; The Shadow's Edge has Jackie Chan reuniting with RIde On director Larry Yang, with Chan playing a retired cop from Macau reinstated to help track a gang of thieves; Zhang Zifeng and the other Tony Leung co-star and it's at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Dead to Rights continues at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  This week's GhibliFest show is Ponyo, playing Boston Common and Assembly Row Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and Monday/Tuesday (subtitled). The new 4K transfer of Shin Godzilla continues at CinemaSalem, the Somerville, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  K-Pop concert film Day6 - 6Days plays Boston Common and Causeway Street on Wednesday.
• The Brattle Theatre has a pair of restorations for the weekend, with Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon playing Friday to Monday and Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth playing Friday to Sunday plus Tuesday.
  
  With summer ending, so does the vertical schedule. The last bits of Altmania! are McCabe & Mrs. Miller (a free Elements of Cinema screening) and The Player on Monday and Gosford Park on Tuesday. The Summer of Satire wraps with Putney Swope & Watermelon Man on Wednesday, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles finishes "Women in the Waves" on Thursday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre mostly keeps Highest 2 Lowest on the main screen while Ne Zha 2 is in the new wing, while continuing Killer Kids Midnights with Alice, Sweet Alice on 35mm film Friday night and the original Goodnight Mommy on Saturday, as well as Eraserhead, which is apparently becoming a monthly thing. On Sunday evening they have a preview of Splitsville, with co-writers and co-stars Michael Angelo Covino (also the director) & Kyle Marvin on hand for a post-film Q&A. On Monday, they've got Zhang Yimou's Hero with Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, and Donnie Yen!) for the Big Screen Classic. Tuesday wraps Swayze Days with a digital restoration of Road House and also a (sold-out) preview of Lurker on 35mm film (I think there was originally meant to be cast on hand, but I'm not seeing it). Thursday's Big Screen Classic is The Women '39 on 35mm film, with The Brady Bunch Movie as the cult classic later that night.
• The Harvard Film Archive continues to split their time between Mikio Naruse (Scattered Clouds Friday evening, Wife! Be Like a Rose! Saturday Evening, Flowing Saturday night & Monday evening, and Scattered Clouds Sunday afternoon) - and Hong Sang-soo (In Our Day Friday night and Night and Day Sunday evening). All are on 35mm film but In Our Day).
• The Museum of Fine Arts winds up the French Film Festival with A Missing Part (Friday evening & Sunday afternoon) and Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe (Saturday afternoon & Sunday morning)
• WBUR's CitySpace has a twentieth anniversary screening of Fever Pitch for their "Set in Boston" series on Friday, with film critic Erin Trahan moderating a post-film conversation.
• The Seaport Alamo has The Doom Generation on Friday, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance in Japanese for Saturday Swordplay, a Ghostbusters Movie Party on Saturday, the fourth Harry Potter movie (Goblet of Fire) on Sunday. There's a member preview of The Long Walk with post-film conversation on Monday, Hackers also plays Monday.
• The Somerville Theatre has Ghost Ship Friday night, with a pre-show bash including live music and concerts upstairs at the Crystal Ballroom. World of Wong-Kar Wai shows include In the Mood for Love on Saturday, 2046 on 35mm film Sunday, . The Great Remakes double feature on Monday is Cape Fear '62 & '91, and The Big Cube is the Summer Camp show on Wednesday. They cap the week with a 35mm screening of David Lynch's The Straight Story, which is his most straightforward film and one of his most charming.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has their monthly Disasterpiece Theater meet-up on Monday
• The Regent Theatre has the Lonely Seal Festival through Sunday, scheduled pretty tight with many blocks. On Wednesday, the Midweek Music Movie is The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux.
• Landmark Kendall Square has a Tuesday "Festival Cinema" show with Moonrise Kingdom.
• Starting to get a bit chilly for outdoor movies, but Joe's Free Films shows North by Northwest at MIT Open Space, sing-along Wicked at the Esplanade, a double feature of The Sweet Hereafter & Gates of Heaven at the Mount Auburn Cemetery via the Coolidge on Tuesday; and Moana 2 at Watertown's Grace Chapel on Friday; Wicked at Castle Island, Beyond the Blue Border at Goethe-Institut (RSVP required), and a rescheduled Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday.
The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Honey Don't and Relay. Pro-wriestling documentary Nevermore: The Raven Effect plays Saturday night, with subject Scott Levy there for a meet & greet and a post-film Q&A. Another documentary, Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Life, has a final screening on Saturday morning, Help! screens for free Sunday afternoon, and Hello Beautiful plays Thursday evening.

The West Newton Cinema opens Honey Don't! and continues Highest 2 Lowest, Rebel with a Clause, Sudan, Remember Us, Freakier Friday, The Last Class, and Bad Shabbos. They've got a bunch of showtimes for the K-Pop Demon Hunters thing on Saturday & Sunday.

Cinema Salem has Shin Godzilla, Weapons, and Freakier Friday through Monday. Heathers is the Friday Night LIght show; Teseracte Players are there for Rocky Horror on Saturday (Full Body at Boston Common, of course). Batman Forever and Tremors have encores Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. They've got a Clue screening for Craft Night on Wednesday, with Citizen Kane for the Wednesday Classic and Weirdo Wednesdays on the other screen.

Kind of curious about the Ne Zha 2 dub and might do a double feature of the other two Chinese movies before catching Honey Don't and Eden and maybe Trust. I'm also curious about K-Pop Demon Hunters as an actual thing from Netflix that has actually gotten some attention, but a sing-along with a bunch of kids kind of sounds like a sort of hell.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 15 August 2025 - 22 August 2024

Huh, I thought AMC and Apple got along, but now that I think about it, has any big Apple movie played the big 'plexes?

• I bring this up because Highest 2 Lowest opens this week, and while the obvious place to see Spike Lee transplant High and Low to contemporary Manhattan with Denzel Washington as a record producer being shaken down for a ransom is The Coolidge Corner Theatre, as they have been running both Spike & Denzel and Akira Kurosawa series lately, it's also playing at West Newton, Kendall Square, and the Seaport, but not the AMCs.
  
  Also opening at the Coolidge - and the Somerville, Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos) - is East of Wall, a film about a widowed rancher in South Dakota looking out for a number of teenagers including her daughter, a riding prodigy. The mother and daughter appear to be playing themselves, which means the scenes of her riding should be authentic.
  
  Midnights at the Coolidge this weekend are Bloody Birthday, a slasher with psycho kids, on Friday and Cronenberg's The Brood on Saturday. Tuesday's Swayze Days picture is Dirty Dancing from a 35mm print, and if you want extra Spike & Denzel, Inside Man runs on 35mm film with a seminar by Boston Globe critic Odie Henderson on Wednesday. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the "Rewind!" show on Thursday.
• Nobody 2 reunites much of the cast of the first, with Bob Odenkirk once again playing a former assassin just trying to live the life of an average suburban dad, but this time crossing gangsters while on vacation. Timo Tjahjanto directs, and I'm mildly disappointed they didn't go the "Nobody Else", "Nobody Knows", "Nobody Cares", etc. route with sequel names. It's at the Capitol, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  August tends to feature movies that have sat around a while and maybe been renamed so a quick Google doesn't remind you they were at festivals two years ago. Last week North Star became My Mother's Wedding; this week National Anthem becomes Americana, with Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, and Simon Rex among those scrambling to steal (or retain) a priceless Native American Ghost Shirt. It's at the Lexington Venue, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
  
  Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs has merely been kicking around festivals since last October or so; it actually the work of writer/director/star Joe Begos, whose Jimmy believes he has been abducted by aliens while his life spirals out of control (it's short, so Roth contributes a fake trailer). It's at Boston Common and the Seaport. The Knife (a year or so), with writer/director Nnamdi Asomugha playing the head of a family trying to stay one step ahead of a detective (Melissa Leo) after a tumultuous night, while Went Up the Hill (a little less than a year) has a woman's son and widow meet for the first time at her funeral, with each possessed by her ghost in turn. Both of those are at Boston Common.
  
  South Bay opens Hell House LLC: Lineage, which is apparently the fifth film in the Hell House LLC series, and the first to not be found-footage-style, on Wednesday.
  
  The original live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, produced by Golden Harvest and with costumes by Jim Henson, gets a 35th Anniversary re-release at Boston Common and South Bay.
  
  "Meet-up" shows of The Grateful Dead Movie continue at Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (Imax Friday-Sunday), Kendall Square (Saturday). And Assembly Row (Imax Friday-Sunday). There's a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row Monday. Monday also features "early access" Imax 3D screenings of the English-dubbed Ne Zha 2 at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row, plus "Texas Chain Saw Day" screenings of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Concert film Yungblud: Are You Ready Boy? plays Boston Common on Wednesday, with another, The Warning Live from Auditorio Nacional, CDMX, starting a run at Boston Common on Thursday. Black Swan plays Imax screens at Jordan's, Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row on Thursday.
• Happy Indian Independence Day! As mentioned last week, there are two blockbusters this week: War 2 stars Hrithik Roshan as a deep-cover, potentially rogue spy at Apple Fresh Pond (Hindi/Telugu), Boston Common (Hindi/Telugu, occasional Imax), and Causeway Street (Hindi). Coolie stars Superstar Rajinikanth as a man who has been plotting vengeance since his youth, and plays at Fresh Pond (Tamil/Telugu/Hindi), Boston Common (Tamil), Causeway Street (Tamil/Telugu depending on the day) and South Bay (Tamil).
  
  Another blockbuster ($315M in China so far!) is Dead to Rights, a World War II thriller with Haoran Liu as a photograph developer who works for the occupying Japanese but is secretly documenting their atrocities. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
  
  This week's anime presentation is The Boy and the Beast at Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport for one day only on Monday. The new 4K transfer of A HREF="http://www.jaysmovieblog.com/2016/10/shin-godzilla.html">Shin Godzilla opens at CinemaSalem and continues at the Somerville, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• The Brattle Theatre a Friday Film Matinee of Modern Times, and then welcomes Vinegar Syndrome/Cinématographe's Justin LaLiberty to introduce some of their latest restorations - A New Leaf and Breathless '83 on Frdiay, Swimming To Cambodia (with a Q&A by Johnathan Demme biographer David M. Steward) and Mixed Blood on Saturday, and Jade on Sunday. LaLiberty will also be at The Video Underground on Sunday afternoon looking to unload both new releases and stuff listed as Out of Print on their site.
  
  The Brattle also has Saturday & Sunday matinees of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure for its 40th anniversary, as well as a special screening of Alex Ross Perry's big video store documentary Videoheaven (including a recorded intro) on Sunday afternoon.
  
  The week's Altmania! Is Thieves Like Us & Kansas City on Monday and Short Cuts on Tuesday. The "Summer of Satire" double feature on Wednesday is One, Two, Three in 35mm & Dr. Strangelove. Thursday's "Women in the Waves" double feature comes from Mai Zetterling, Loving Couples & The Girls.
• The Harvard Film Archive begins an extended series of screenings from prolific Korean art-house director Hong Sang-soo with In Another Country(35mm) and Yourself and Yours on Friday, Like You Know It All (35mm) Saturday night, and Walk Up Sunday evening. The Mikio Naruse series continues as well The Strange within a Woman Saturday evening, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Sunday afternoon and Traveling Actors on Monday evening. All the Naruse films are on 35mm film.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has more of their French Film Festival with Souleymane's Story (sold out Friday), Visiting Hours (Saturday afternoon), and The Art of Nothing (Sunday afternoon).
• The Somerville Theatre kicks off the weekend with a 35mm double feature of The French Connection & Bullitt. The World of Wong Kar-Wai series includes Chungking Express on Saturday, Ashes of Time Redux on 35mm film Sunday, Fallen Angels on Tuesday, and Happy Together on Thursday; Monday's Great Remakes 35mm double feature is Cat People '42 & '82; Summer Camp on Wednesday is All About Eve.
  
  Their friends at The Capitol Theatre have a special "Celluloid Confidential" show on Thursday, a surprise "1980s Government Conspiracy/Cattle Mutilation Feature Film" from a 16mm print.
• The Seaport Alamo has Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins for Saturday Swordplay and the third Harry Potter movie (Prisoner of Azkaban) on Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday. The support Higher 2 Lower with Spike & Denzel joint Malcolm X on Saturday and Spike Lee's The Original Kings of Comedy on Tuesday. There's a Lurker preview with livestreamed Q&A on Monday.
• The Regent Theatre has It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley on Friday night, with a pre-recorded Q&A afterward. Independent coming of age film Rivers Edge plays Saturday, CatVideoFest and Nothing Solid on Sunday, and the Lonely Seal Festival begins on Wednesday with Hello, Beautiful, with star Tricia Helfer and director Ziad H. Hamzeh on hand; blocks anchored by features Growing Pains and The Full Fungus play Thursday, with the festival continuing through next Sunday.
• Landmark Kendall Square's Tuesday "Festival Cinema" show is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
• Outdoor movies at Joe's Free Films this week are Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at MIT Open Space and Captain America: Brave New World at the Esplenade on Friday; Paddington in Peru at Assembly Row Tuesday; plus Captain America: BNW at Castle Island, Franky Five Star at Goethe-Institut (RSVP required), and hosting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday. The Harvard Art Museum also has a free screening of The Thief Collector on Saturday afternoon (RSVP recommended);.
The Lexington Venue is open all week with Americana and Weapons. Indie comedy Nothing Solid plays Monday, with ticket sales benefitting the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association documentary Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Life plays Tuesday & Wednesday (and next Saturday); and documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf plays Thursday.

The West Newton Cinema opens Highest 2 Lowest plus documentaries Rebel with a Clause and Sudan, Remember Us, keeping Freakier Friday, Weapons, The Last Class, and Bad Shabbos. The staff choice on Friday is I>The Devil and Daniel Johnston, while another doc, Other Side plays Sunday, with directors Carter Oakley & Heather Hogan on hand to discuss their documentary about death-with-dignity activist Lynda Bluestein.

Cinema Salem has Shin Godzilla, The Bad Guys 2, Weapons, Together, and Freakier Friday through Monday. Saturday afternoon features a Roman Holiday encore, with a VHS Rewind event featuring Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight during the afternoon and evening. There's also a Whodunit Watch Party on Sunday. Flying Leathernecks is the Wednesday Classic and Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall, while Thursday offers Batman Forever on one screen and Tremors on the other.

Out at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, Witchboard is a reboot of the 1980s/1990 series directed by Chuck Rusell (which played Fantasia last year).

Might be testing my bladder this week, as Highest 2 Lowest, Dead to Rights, War 2, and Coolie would be ten hours and ten minutes between them for four films, making the 89-minute Nobody 2 look real good! Kind of also tempted by the 155-minute F1 back on Imax screens, but might catch one or two of the things that have been sitting around because they tend to be mercifully short.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 8 August 2025 - 14 August 2024

August is the "sure, why not?" section of the summer movie season.

• 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 Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Bad Shabbos (no show Thursday), and Weapons. They also have The Waiting Game, a documentary on the American Basketball Association, Saturday morning and all day Tuesday. The Danny Boyle/Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller Frankenstein with Cumberbatch as Victor and Miller as the Creature Sunday morning, Strange Harvest on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light on Wednesday and Thursday evening.

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.

I've already caught My Daughter Is a Zombie and am looking to catch up on The Bad Guys 2 and The Lychee Road, plus Weapons, Padlocked, and maybe some rep.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 1 August 2025 - 7 August 2024

Coming home Monday! Whatcha got, Boston?

• The Naked Gun gets a "legacysquel", with Leslie Nielsen the heretofore unmentioned son of Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin bumbling through an adventure where Police Squad! Is being threatened with defunding. It's at The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Another sequel coming out this week is The Bad Guys 2, with the team of animal crooks blackmailed into one last heist as they try to go straight following the first movie. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including RealD 3D & Spanish dub), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Seaport, South Bay (including RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby CInema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Documentary Archcitection, in which director Victor Kossakovsky examines the use of concrete in buildings around the world, opens at the Somerville, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  Boston Common opens She Rides Shotgun, with Taron Egerton as a father who must train his daughter to avoid assassins.
  
  After opening Wednesday at West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row, Together also adds the Somerville and CinemaSalem on Friday.
  
  Sketch, in which a kid's drawings come to life and wreak havoc upon her town, opens Monday (Wednesday officially, but with two days of previews) at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Kids matinees include Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, Shrek at Fresh Pond Monday to Thursday, and Migration at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
  
  Sunset Boulevard has 75th anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday and Monday. Concert film Dead & Company: Live In Imax from Golden Gate Park plays Assembly Row Sunday. There are Monday mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Freakier Friday gets a non-mystery "Fan First Screening" on Wednesday at Assembly Row, while Boston Common shows it as a double feature with the first film that evening.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Folktales, a Norwegian documentary about a school above the Arctic circle and the teenagers who go there to learn traditional skills and connect to their heritage before adulthood.
  
  The Coolidge also opens a new set of Akira Kurosawa Restorations, with Throne of Blood (Friday/Saturday), The Hidden Fortress (Friday/Sunday),Rashomon (Saturday/Sunday), Yojimbo & Sanjuro (separate admissions Monday), Stray Dog (Tuesday/Thursday), Red Beard (Tuesday/Thursday), High and Low (Wednesday), and Ikiru (Wednesday).
  
  The midnight films in August are horror movies involving kids, with The Bad Seed on 35mm film Friday and Battle Royale on Saturday. CatVideoFest 2025 plays Sunday afternoon; Big is the 35mm Big Screen Classic on Monday; Ghost (on 35mm film) starts a Tuesday "Swayze Days" series; and there's a 35mm Cinema Jukebox show of Detroit Rock City on Thursday.
• Apple Fresh Pond had Telugu-language action drama Kingdom open Wednesday (also at Boston Common Causeway Street), and this week picks up Hindi animated adventure Mahavatar Narisimha, Hindi-language romance Dhadak 2, Hindi-language action-comedy Son of Sardaar 2, which, near as I can tell, is not based on a Telugu version remaking a Buster Keaton silent like its predecessor (also at Boston Common), and Kannada-language horror comedy Su From So. Hindi-language romance Saiyaara is held over (also at Boston Common).
  
  Chinese comedy The Lychee Road continues at Causeway Street.
• This week's Friday Film Matinee at The Brattle Theatre is Hercules in the Haunted World. They also pick up the new one from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Cloud, with Masaki Suda as a crook who fears he is marked for revenge, playing a full schedule Friday to Sunday and matinees Monday/Wednesday/Thursday.
  
  They also play Singin' in the Rain to celebrate Donald O'Connor's 100th; continue Almania! With Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean on Monday and a double feature of 3 Women & Popeye on Tuesday; run Elmer Gantry in 35mm as part of the Summer of Satire on Wednesday; and continue "Women i the Waves" with a double feature of Kira Muratova's Brief Encounters & Márta Mészáros's The Girl on Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive has a quiet weekend of 35mm Mikio Naruse showing Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Friday evening); Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (Friday night); Sincerity (Saturday night); and Summer Cloads (Monday evening)
• The Museum of Fine Arts begins the annual French Film Festival with Night Call (Friday), Trois Amies (Saturday morning), When Fall is Coming (Saturday afternoon), Holy Cow (Sunday morning), and The Count of Monte Cristo (sold out Sunday afternoon).
• The Seaport Alamo shows CatVideoFest 2025 on Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday, begins a Saturday swordplay series with The Tale of Zatoichi, starts cycling through the Harry Potter movies again with Sorcerer's Stone on Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday, plays Tales from the Hood on Monday, and has a Movie Party presentation of Clueless on Wednesday.
• The Somerville Theatre has Vanishing Point for Saturday's Midnight special. Monday/s Great Remakes double feature is Invasion of the Body Snatchers '56 & '78. The GreenScreen show on Tuesday is a 35mm print of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Wednesday's Summer Camp show is Grey Gardens.
• The Regent Theatre also has CatVideoFest 2025, twice a day on Saturday & Sunday.
• Landmark Kendall Square's Tuesday comedy classic is Wet Hot American Summer.
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films: Song of the Sea at the MIT Open Space and Despicable Me 4 at the Charles River Esplanade on Friday; School of Rock at the Prudential Center on Saturday; The Devil Wears Prada at TimeOut Market on Monday; and "interactive" night with The Super Mario Bros. Movie at the Somerville Library plus Turning Red at Greene-Rose Heritage Park in Cambridge, Despicable Me 4 at Castle Island, and Commitment Phobia at Goethe-Institut (RSVP required) on Wednesday; and Barbie at Somerville's Statue Park in Davis Square (which I guess is what we're calling Seven Hills Park now) on Thursday.
• The Embassy in Waltham is open all week with Fantastic Four.
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Shoshana, Bad Shabbos, and The Last Class. The Danny Boyle/Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller Frankenstein with Miller as Victor and Cumberbatch as the Creature plays Saturday morning, and the version with the roles reversed plays Thursday evening.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Sabbath Queen (including a special event with director Sandi Simcha DuBowski and Tufts Professor Heather Nathans on Sunday afternoon) and The Bad Guys 2, keeping Sorry, Baby, Fantastic Four, Together, The Last Class, and Bad Shabbos.
  
  Cinema Salem has The Bad Guys 2, Fantastic Four, Together, and Superman through Monday. Friday's Night Light show is The Heroic Trio. Light week for rep, with 42nd Street for the Wednesday Classic and Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall.

I'll be in Montreal through Monday, though I'm kind of kicking myself at not choosing an earlier flight so I can catch Cloud at the Brattle. Anyway, Fantasia through Sunday, then probably catching the last shows of The Lychee Road and Imax 3D Fantastic Four when I get home.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 25 July 2025 - 31 July 2024

Doing this quickly since I"m probably not seeing any of them this week.

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps is actually the fourth cinematic swing at Marvel's first family, this one in the MCU (or, perhaps, a parallel/retro-futuristic version thereof), with Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards and the team confronting a legit Kirby-style Galactus. It's at the Captiol, Fresh Pond, the Embassy, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D/3D), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, The Seaport Alamo (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is Oh, Hi!, starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman as a couple whose romantic vacation goes sideways in a way that has the lady desperate to prove they should still be together. It's at the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, the Coolidge, Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and South Bay.
  
  In horror releases, The Home stars Pete Davidson as a new employee at a retirement home who discovers something is not right. It's at CinemaSalem, Boston Common, and Causeway Street. House on Eden has writer/director/star Kris Collins leading a paranormal investigation into a house in the woods and probably finding nothing good; it's at Boston Common all week and the Seaport Monday & Tuesday. Ick has Fathom shows at Boston Common Sunday/Monday/Tuesday, with Brandon Routh as a teacher who returns to his home town, reconnects with an ex, finds out he has a daughter, and battles slime creatures.
  
  Together, starring Alison Brie & Dave Franco as a couple drifting apart until contact starts to merge their bodies physically in a new home, opens Wednesday at West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Kids matinees include Paddington 2 at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, Sing 2 at Fresh Pond Monday to Thursday, and Shrek at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
  
  There are encore shows of Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill (Live from Prague) at Kendall Square and Boston Common on Sunday. Monday has mystery previews at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Shoshana, the new film from Michael.Winterbottom set in 1930s Tel Aviv, in which a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love despite Britain's control over Palestine foundering.
  
  Indie Western They Call Her Death plays on 35mm Friday and Saturday at midnight; shot on 16mm film, it was made entirely with 1960s cameras and aims to capture the vibe and methods of that period. Also playing midnight are Fatal Flying Guillotine (Friday) and Blade: Trinity (Saturday), both on 35mm film. There's a Science on Screen presentation of The Matrix on Monday (marked sold out, but sometimes they put a second on), Kaidan Kimodameshi wrapping on Tuesday with Takashi Shimizu's American adaptation of The Grudge, a Spike & Denzel show of Malcom X on 35mm film Wednesday, and a Mamma Mia! double feature on Thursday night.
• Landmark Kendall Square's opens Unicorns, a romance between a white working-class father and a Desi drag queen in Britain.
  
  Tuesday comedy classic is The Big Lebowski.
• The Lychee Road is the latest film from co-writer/director/star Da Peng, in which the comedian plays a man getting into misadventures delivering the pungent fruit throughout Tang Dynasty China, with various big-name guest stars at his various stops It's at Causeway Street.
  
  Telugu-language historical epic Hari Hara Veera Mallu Part 1: Sword Vs Spirit opened Wednesday and continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street. Apple Fresh Pond also opens two Tamil-language films: Comedy Thalaivan Thalaivii and Maareesan, about a thief who winds up paired with a man who has Alzheimer's Disease. Hindi-language romance Saiyaara continues (also at Boston Common), and Telugu-language action drama Kingdom opens Wednesday.
  
  A new 4K presentation of anime Summer Wars plays Boston Common subtitled on Sunday/Tuesday and dubbed on Monday.
• Aw, man, I'm more sad than usual that I can't be at the Friday Film Matinee at The Brattle Theatre; since Terry Jones's The Wind in the Willows, which rounded up his Python pals a well as others, was one of the first films I saw there! It's in 35mm, as are the related 50th Anniversary screenings of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Friday to Sunday. A new restoration of In My Skin plays the late shift those nights and Monday.
  
  Also playing Monday is Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, with Tuesday's Altmania! show a double feature of California Split & The Long Goodbye. Wednesdays "Summer of Satire" double feature is Boudu Saved from Drowning & My Man Godfrey '36, and there are two from Agnès Varda on Thursday: A free Elements of Cinema screening of Le Bonheur and Cléo from 5 to 7 (where you've got to buy a ticket).
• The Harvard Film Archive keeps showing 35mm Mikio Naruse this weekend: Daughters, Wives, and Mothers (Friday evening); The Approach of Autumn (Friday night); Morning's Tree-Lined Street (Saturday evening); A Woman's Sorrows (Saturday night); Mother (Sunday afternoon); Hideko, the Bus Conductor (Monday evening), and The Whole Family Works (Monday night).
• The Somerville Theatre has Kung Fu Hustle in 35mm for Saturday's Midnight special. This week has two Great Remakes double features: A Sunday matinee with the 1961 & 1998 versions of The Parent Trap (the '61 on 35mm film) and The Departed (35mm) and Infernal Affairs in the regular monday slot. Wednesday's Summer Camp selection is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The Capitol Theatre has their first "Peculiar Picture Show" late Friday, with drag queen Coleslaw & Rigney hosting a screening of Santa Sangre. There's also a 4th Wall show featuring Fielded, Barchana, and TOBY (plus visuals by Junk Drawer) on Saturday, and Disasterpiece Theatre on Monday.
• The New England Aquarium celebrates Shark Week with The Meg on their Imax screen Friday and Deep Blue Sea on Saturday!
• The Museum of Fine Arts begins the annual French Film Festival with Trois Amies (sold out Friday), Filmlovers! (Saturday morning), The Ties that Bind Us (Saturday afternoon), When Fall Is Coming (Sunday morning), and Misericordia (Sunday afternoon).
• The Museum of Science has a special screening of Patrice: The Movie on Saturday night as part of their Disability Pride celebration; free with registration.
• The Boston Jewish Film's Summer Cinematheque screening this week is Joanna Rakoff: When a Memoir Becomes a Movie, playing Thursday at the Vilna Shul with Rakoff on hand for dinner, the film, and post-screening conversation.
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films: The Man Who Knew too Much at the MIT Open Space and Inside Out 2 at the Charles River Esplanade on Friday; The Wild Robot at Greene-Rose Heritage Park in Cambridge and Inside Out 2 at Castle Island on Wednesday; and Wayne's World at Somerville's Statue Park in Davis Square on Thursday.
• The Embassy in Waltham appears to be open all week with Fantastic Four.
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Eddington, Oh, Hi!, Bad Shabbos, and To a Land Unknown, with The Last Class joining them on Wednesday. One of the Danny Boyle/Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller Frankenstein performances (Miller as Victor, Cumberbatch as the Creature) plays Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Sorry, Baby and Fantastic Four (plus Together on Tuesday), with The Last Class, Superman, Bad Shabbos, Elio, Materialists, and The Life of Chuck held over. Rebel with a Clause plays Thursday night with director Brandt Johnson and subject Ellen Jovin on hand.
  
  Cinema Salem has I Know What you Did Last Summer, Fantastic Four, Oh, Hi!, The Home, and Superman through Monday. Friday's Night Light show is The Heroic Trio; Saturday has a Whodunit Watch Party and an encore of Cinema Paradiso; and Wednesday has North by Northwest as the acknowledged classic with a Weirdo Wednesday show down the hall.
  
  If you can make it out to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they've got guess-what's-in-the-public-domain-now horror movie Bambi: The Reckoning.

I'm happily ensconced in Montreal for Fantasia, crossing my fingers for no Fantastic Four spoilers and hoping The Lychee Road sticks around until I get back because there are no holes in the festival schedule.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 11 July 2025 - 17 July 2024

We are in the "one or two movies grabbing every screen" portion of the year.

• This week, that's the latest take on Superman, written and directed by James Gunn with David Coreswet at Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Not sure what the story is, but it's the first time Warner has launched Superman movies with a larger DC Universe in place. It's at the Somerville, the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), The Museum of Science (Omnimax Fridays & Saturdays), West Newton, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D/3D & Dolby Digital & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is Abraham's Boys, which is subtitled "A Dracula Story", featuring Titus Welliver as Van Helsing, who apparently moved to America with his sons after defeating Dracula, although maybe he's not totally defeated. It's at Boston Common and South Bay.
  
  Kids matinees include Pokemon: Detective Pikachu at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; The Wild Robot at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and Kung Fu Panda 4 at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
  
  This Is Spinal Tap is held over at Boston Common Friday to Sunday. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has 50th Anniversary shows at Boston Common Sunday & Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square opens Sovereign, featuring Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay as father-and-son believers in sovereign citizenship who will eventually cross paths with Dennis Quaid's police chief.
  
  Tuesday's comedy classic is The Jerk.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language gangster film Maalik, starring Rajkummar Rao; Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan, a Hindi-language romance about a visually-impaired couple; and Tamil-language drama Oho Enthan Baby. Hindi-language romantic anthology Metro… In Dino continues at Fresh Pond, where Bangladeshi action movie Taandob plays Saturday afternoon.
  
  Anime Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death - The Movie plays Wednesday & Thursday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport.
  
  Chinese thriller Malice continues at Causeway Street.
• The Brattle Theatre has an encore of Streets of Fire on 35mm for the Friday Film Matinee. After that, they have a run of Familiar Touch, with Kathleen Chalfant as a woman whose mind is breaking down on the other side of 80. Co-star H. Jon Benjamin will be on hand for a Q&A Friday. It also plays Saturday & Sunday, plus matinees Monday & Thursday. They also have late shows of Christiane F. in a new restoration Friday to Monday.
  
  In rep, Ari Aster programs a number of westerns - The Wild Bunch Saturday afternoon, Unforgiven Sunday afternoon on 35mm film, and No Country for Old Men Wednesday afternoon - ahead of an IFFBoston preview of his new film Eddington on Wednesday. There's also a "Pics and Crafts" show of Marie Antoinette on 35mm film Monday, and the start of their Robert Altman series on Tuesday with M*A*S*H & Brewster McCloud (the latter on 35mm).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre rearranges showtimes, but mostly keeps the same movies. Midnights this weekend are Kill Bill, with Volume 1 on Friday and Volume 2 on Saturday, both on 35mm film. They also have documentary Sabbath Queen, which follows performance artist Amichai Lau-Lavie over 21 years before he returns to the thousand-year family business of being a rabbi, on Sunday afternoon, with director Sandi Dubowski on hand for Q&A.
  
  They also have The People's Joker on Monday evening, kabuki-derived horror movie Demon Pond on Tuesday, Dog Day Afternoon for Wednesday's Big Screen Classic, a 35mm Cinema Jukebox show of Saturday Night Fever on Thursday, and a cult classic show of Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion later Thursday night.
  
  (They're also the venue for Boston Jewish Film's Summer Cinematheque screening of Marathon Mom on Thursday, with tickets available on BJF's website.)
• The Harvard Film Archive has more 35mm Mikio Naruse: Untamed (Friday evening/Sunday afternoon), A Wife's Heart (Friday night), and Sudden Rain (Sunday evening). They also welcome Yugoslav auteur Karpo Godina for bahrudin "Bato" Čengić's Life of a Shock Force Worker (with Godina's "Sunday Picnic") Saturday evening, a program of experimental shorts Saturday night, and episodes 1 to 3 of Frame for a Few Poses on Monday evening.
• The Museum of Fine Arts screens La Chimera on Friday evening, with a panel of the museum's experts on hand for a conversation afterward.
• WBUR's CitySpace has a "Set in Boston" screening of The Bostonians on Friday night, with Sean Burns & Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Megan Marshall discussing it afterward.
• The Somerville Theatre has a 35mm double feature of Die Hard & Working Girl on Saturday evening (apparently it's a Bob's Burgers thing), with a midnight screening of Hundreds of Beavers later that night. Independent film Sunlight plays Sunday and Tuesday evening. Monday's Great Remakes double feature are the '58 and '86 versions of The Fly (the latter on 35mm film). Wednesday's Summer Camp show is What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? on 35mm, and Thursday features music documentary Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show with Digital Awareness providing visuals for A Monolithic Dome, War Machine, and Astral Bitch on Saturday.
• The Seaport Alamo has an "Agfadrome" screening of 1977 South Korean folk horror film Io Island on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has two movies on Sunday evening, with actress Taylor Treadwell there for meet & greet before American Warrior in the afternoon and documentary Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine with director Alfonso Maiorana there for a Q&A in the evening. On Wednesday, they team with The Book Rack with The Princess Bride, with a post-film discussion about the adaptation.
• There's a pretty full slate of outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films: Moana at the Charles River Esplanade on Friday, Miss Congeniality at the Prudential Center on Saturday, 5 on Wednesday (Moana 2 at Boston Harbor Shipyard, Despicable Me 4 at Timothy J. Toomey Jr. Park in Cambridge, Moana at Castle Island and Point Break on 35mm at the Rose Kennedy Greenway via the Coolidge), and Flubber at Urban Park Roof Garden in Cambridge & The Outsiders at Somerville's Lincoln Park on Thursday.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Familiar Touch, Friendship, and Hot Milk.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Superman and Bad Shabbos, continuing Jurassic World Rebirth, Elio, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, and The Life of Chuck.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Superman through Monday. The original The Toxic Avenger is Friday's Night Light show, with podcast The Spooky Picture Show hosting a 40th anniversary screening of Day of the Dead on Saturday, plus a Wednesday Classics show of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
  
  If you can make it out to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they've got a four-walled booking of influencers-getting-picked-off horror movie Skillhouse. The Dedham Community Theatre holds overFrench film Mr. Blake at Your Service.

Already have a ticket for Superman in Imax 3D on Saturday, a family gathering on Sunday, and then I leave for Montreal for the Fantasia International Film Festival on Monday. Can I fit Materialists and maybe a 3D Elio or even Sovereign in around that? Maybe, maybe not.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 June 2025 - 3 July 2024

Bunch of rep at odds with each other this weekend.

• In the 'plexes, though, you've got F1: The Movie, with Brad Pitt as a former F1 racer lured back from stock car racing to compete and mentor a cocky young driver. Joseph Kosinski co-writes and directs, so the giant-screen racing action should look incredible. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (Including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Landmark Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  M3GAN 2.0 looks to be going the Terminator 2 route, with its killer robot rebooted and (hopefully) reprogrammed to protect the previous film's survivors from a next-generation android, slanted more toward sci-fi action than horror this time around. It's at the Somerville, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  IFFBoston selection Hot Milk, starring Fiona Shaw & Emma Mackey as a mother and daughter who find an alternate reality while looking for a health cure on the Spanish coast. It's at Boston Common and the Seaport. Comedy Everything's Going to Be Great, starring Allison Janney & Bryan Cranston as a couple involved in regional theater, plays Boston Common.
  
  Jurassic World Rebirth opens Wednesday, with Garth Evans directing Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali on a mission to another abandoned island lab where InGen made hybrid dinosaurs. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill. Looks like they're doing old-school midnight shows, at least at Assembly Row, rather than pushing all the way back to Tuesday, too!
  
  Another IFFBoston film, 40 Acres, starring Danielle Deadwyler as the head of a family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, opens at Boston Common on Wednesday (plus a bunch of early-Tuesday shows).
  
  Kids matinees include The Lego Batman Movie at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; Migration at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and Minions: The Rise of Gru at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Telugu-language fantasy epic Kannapa with Vishnu Manchu as the mythic hunter, as well as Hindi-language horror-fantasy Maa, starring Kajol as a mother who transforms into the goddess Kali to fight a demonic curse, a follow-up to last year's Shaitaan, though I'm not sure how closely connected they are (not seeing directors/cast in common).
  
  Hindi-language sports movie Sitaare Zameen Par continues at Fresh Pond (also at Causeway Street), Telugu-language crime drama Kuberaa continues at Fresh Pond (also at Boston Common). Another encore of The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika plays Sunday afternoon.
• The Brattle Theatre has three series going over the week. Pride month programming includes The Celluloid Closet (35mm Friday afternoon), Love Lies Bleeding (Friday night), The Living End (Saturday night), and How to Survive a Plague (Sunday night). That makes it tight for "Japan's Pop Art Renegade: Nobuhiko Obayashi x5", which includes both his most (in)famous film, House on 35mm Friday & Saturday, plus two double features - the original The Girl Who Leapt Through Time & School in the Crosshairs on Saturday & Sunday, and The Island Closest To Heaven & His Motorcycle, Her Island on Sunday & Monday.
  
  On Tuesday, with Universal holding Jaws back for other theaters, they start a "Spawn of Jaws: Blockbusters & Wannabe Blockbusters" series, looking at the big films that arose in Spielberg's film's wake. It starts with a free 35mm Elements of Cinema show of Grease on Tuesday, followed by Star Wars Tuesday night & Wednesday afternoon (almost certainly the Special Edition), Close Encounters of the Third Kind Wednesday evening, Alien Wednesday night & Thursday evening, Raiders of the Lost Ark Thursday afternoon, and Aliens Thursday night. The series continues through Thursday the 10th.
• Two stops up the Red Line, The Somerville Theatre continues their annual 70mm & Widescreen festival with a 35mm double feature of Harakiri & The Sword of Doom on Friday, a 70mm print of The Hunt for Red October on Saturday, separate 70mm shows of Always and Far and Away on Saturday, and 70mm Lawrence of Arabia on Monday. There's also a midnight show of the new restoration of Princess Mononoke (dubbed/4K) on Saturday, a 35mm "Greenscreen" show of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on Tuesday, and a "Summer Camp" show of Mommie Dearest on Wednesday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has a live show paying tribute to Neil Young & Joni Mitchell on Saturday, and the monthly Disasterpiece Theatre show on Monday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues the zombie sequel midnight shows with Bride of Re-Animator on Friday and Return of the Living Dead III on Saturday, both directed by Brian Yunza. Monday's Queer Cinema presentation is Querelle. On Tuesday, they start a new "Kaidan Kimosdameshi" series of Japanese horror with a 35mm print of Ugetsu; Thursday has two 35mm classics of various sorts: Drop Dead Gorgeous at 7pm and the officially-designated cult classic Jackass: The Movie.
• RoxFIlm has their closing night at The Museum of Fine Arts on Friday, with a shorts program in the afternoon and May the Lord Watch, a documentary on North Carolina rap group Little Brother, with band members on hand for a Q&A afterward, co-presented by BAMS Festival, which starts the next day.
• The Seaport Alamo brings back On Swift Horses for Pride shows (I guess?) Saturday & Sunday. Cult hit Frankenhooker plays Monday, and there's a Movie Party of Legally Blonde 2 on Tuesday
• The Regent Theatre has The Kids Are Alright - the concert movie featuring The Who, not the indie drama - on Saturday, including a Q&A with filmmaker Jeff Stein. They also have musical 1776 on Thursday afternoon, with a live reading of the Declaration of Independence that night
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films include Toy Story at the MIT Open Space on Friday and 10 Things I Hate About You at the TimeOut Market on Monday.
• The Museum of Science still has RSVPs open for a special showing of Sally in the Mugar Omni Theater on the 28th, and tickets are on sale for Superman when it opens in a couple of weeks.
• The Embassy continues Elio through Sunday (maybe not 7 days a week yet).
  
  The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, The Life of Chuck, and F1.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens F1 Friday and Jurassic World Rebirth Wednesday, holding over Elio, Prime Minister, How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, and The Life of Chuck. Short film program KINORAW has six shorts by Ukrainian filmmakers Saturday evening, and both Moonrise Kingdom and IFFBoston documentary Rebel with a Clause play Thursday night, the latter with the film's director and star on hand for a post-film Q&A.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, How to Train Your Dragon, F1, and M3GAN 2.0 through Monday. Vampyros Lesbos plays Friday for the Night Light show; Rocky Horror with Teseracte on Saturday (Full Body at Boston Common as always); a Girlies with Anniversaries show of Desperately Seeking Susan on Saturday, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame on Wednesday.

Man, there's just no way to make the Brattle and Somerville programs play nice with each other, huh? Trying to go back and forth between them through Monday, then seeing about F1 and Jurassic World. Although it's kind of crazy to me that apparently folks would rather use Imax screens for racecars than dinosaurs now.