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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...

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...

Happy Valentine's Day! I don't know if the new releases are particularly romantic, but that's never been my area anyway. Anyway, it's worth noting that even though the 15th is when Regal will supposedly "refuse its contract" on the Fenway...

Happy February, even if it's supposed to be ridiculously cold this weekend (although it might just be what we called "winter" twenty years ago). The latest from M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin, opens all over, with Dave Bautista as...

Well, this stinks: It looks like the Fenway multiplex is on a list of 39 leases Regal intends to "reject" next month, which doesn't 100% mean they're closing then, but we certainly could be down 13 screens before Causeway Street and the Se...