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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...

It's an exceptionally dead period between Thanksgiving and Avatar and Netflix isn't extending Glass Onion's run, so let's see who is ready to pick up the money they're leaving on the table. The big opening this weekend is Violent Night, with David H...

Labor Day weekend is even weirder than usual this year, with the two biggest entries re-releases, a "National Cinema Day" on Saturday where a lot of places will be charging $3, any movie, any screen, all day long, and not even a lot of unim...

You can sort of see what sort of doldrums late summer/early fall is this year from just how random a lot of what's playing on the deluxe screens is. You expect something off-kilter on Labor Day weekend, but theaters are booking lots of things beside...

Good golly, this week is going to be nuts if you like movies in Boston. It's been three years since the event has been held in person, but Independent Film Festival Boston will be back in person starting Wednesday. It's a little pared down between...

Huh, looks like I should have hit that Indian movie earlier. Just left everywhere in a rush to make room for the next big things Landmark's Kendall Square will welcome Viva Maestro! director Ted Braun for the 6:50pm show Friday night to discuss his...

Really, studios and exhibitors? Just one terrible-looking wide-release this week? No clever indie studios grabbing a free screen or two or Chinese/Hong Kong/Korean imports? This is a level of nothing usually reserved for New Year's weekend. So th...

It is genuinely weird to have the Oscars get in the way of the sci-fi film festival; I know that even awards contenders cycle through theaters so fast now that they've got to keep moving up, but this feels way too early. But, believe it or not, The...

Oscars in less than a week and a half, which doesn't leave a lot of time for catching up. The ceremony is crazy early this year. There are, at least, plenty of places to catch up on nominated films, with the Oscar-Nominated Shorts playing not just...

Well, this was going to lead off with Chinese New Year, but then some coronavirus shows up in Wuhan and suddenly all seven movies that were set to open in China for the holiday are just yanked from the schedule and a city larger than New York is basi...

Hey, the ArcLight opened on Causeway Street! Mostly; it's a 10-plex with Fandango only showing 7 screens worth of movies right now, and I don't see the big screen listed. We'll give it a little more of a look when it's ready. But, in the meantime,...

Shorter post (hopefully), what with Thanksgiving coming up and a couple of things seeming like they'd be big enough to dominate screens for the weekend. After all, there are going to be a lot of little girls looking to hit Frozen II, which is pretty...

Remember, the Red Line is messed up this weekend, from Kendall to Broadway, so allow yourself some extra time. The biggest thing coming out this weekend (by one measure) is Ford v Ferrari, featuring Matt Damon and Christian Bale as an engineer and d...

You know, I could have sworn I saw previews for Terminator: Dark Fate in 3D earlier this year, but (checks Hong Kong showtime app) it's not even being shown that way internationally. Go figure. But before going there, stop at The Brattle Theatre fo...

A lot of talk lately about Disney making it much harder for theaters to rent Fox classics, with the exception being The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it feels like all the Boston-area theaters are booking it for Halloween anyway, just in case they d...