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This is probably the average weekend when school gets out, but it doesn't look like theaters' hours are expanding on top of there being more stuff coming out. The first of three DC Universe films coming out this year, The Flash, plays The Capitol,...

Well, apparently the place at South Bay is open again. Wonder what that was about! (And now there's no showtimes listed for the Imax screen at Assembly Row. Weird!) The week's big opening is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the first half of...

Still on vacation as I write this, but coming back soon with a fair amount to catch up on in this week-between-blockbusters. The counterprogramming is Book Club: The Next Chapter, which reunites Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Ste...

Tempted to not do this this week, since I'm out of town and the big opening is huge, but I want to know what to catch up on later. That big release would be Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, billed as a finale to the trilogy with James Gunn heading...

It's festival week, so pick your poison. Which may happen to be "what can maybe do something for a week or two before the big Marvel movie wipes things out". Independent Film Festival 2023 keeps going on, having all three screens at the S...

Is it IFFBoston season already? Time is flying, and not just because I've probably overbooked myself for some stuff coming up. To answer the rhetorical question first, yes, Independent Film Festival 2023, the twentieth annual event (give or take a...

Something I saw at my first Fantasia getting a 20th Anniversary Blu-ray release the other day was a heck of a thing, but something else I discovered there hitting the big time is pretty cool. It's kind of crazy, really, that I saw Makoto Shinkai's f...

I guess I kind of did a bunch of the work for this last week, but I honestly thought more would be coming out this weekend than just the two big ones. Ah, well. The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened Wednesday at the Capitol (including RealD 3D), Fresh...

So, there's a little motion around the area's theaters - Alamo has started advertising the place in the Seaport online, and The West Newton Theatre Foundation has announced a capital campaign to buy and renovate the building by August 2024 - which, o...

Hey, the Boston Underground Film Festival starts this week! Surprisingly, the Boston Irish Film Festival doesn't, as they were grabbing the same weekend for some time, then committed to staying out of each other's way, then, well, 2020. Boston Unde...

A couple of these ago, accompanist Jeff Raising mentioned that some hard-to-find silent or other wound up being so good that there ought to be a Kickstarter to get it on disc. I don't think it was this one, which recently went live, but I backed it...

Peter Greenaway is a filmmaker who has kind of been at the edge of my awareness for a while: I probably didn't catch his name when The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was raising eyebrows for getting into some mainstream theaters despite i...

End of the month, already? I mean, yeah, February's short, but 2023 is zipping by. The big opening this week is Cocaine Bear, a horror-comedy about a bear that goes on a rampage after ingesting a whole bunch of coke, directed by Elizabeth Banks, fe...

Not necessarily fewer options for what to see this weekend, but fewer places to see them, as Regal's Fenway location had its last day on Sunday, one of a few places where their landlords wouldn't back down enough on rent to keep it open. I suspect t...

Very short week for, uh, reasons. So, remember last week, when pipes in my walls burst? Well, my landlord wasn't able to get my shower put together until Tuesday, so I kind of stayed away from theaters early in the week out of deference to folks...