Jay's Movie Blog

Last week, the studios had a couple big movies not meet expectations, but the big release this week is a tweener that targets boutique houses as well as multiplexes, so there's a bit of room for weird stuff to opportunistically squeeze through. That...

When "season two" happens post-Fantasia, I'm going to make a much more earnest attempt to keep up with what the score is rather than just calculating it as I do the posts. Or maybe at least do the posts much more quickly, so that I know th...

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,...

Since there's (currently) a five-month lag between me doing this and me writing it up,.I've been very curious to see just how this evens things out. Mookie with the 20! It's his second, and exceptionally fortuitous because it lands him on the box...

This weekend is insane in terms of repertory stuff playing Boston on film, one of the biggest "don't you people talk to each other? How am I supposed to watch all this?" line-ups in recent memory. IFFBoston Closing Night film Past Lives o...

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...

Looking at what could be a busier week than what my AMC membership can handle and thinking, are we going to try MoviePass 4.0 (or whatever)? Do we trust it? Oh, and in disappointing news given it's a holiday weekend, the multiplex at South Bay seem...

Not saying the ten days I was on vacation is the longest is the longest I've gone without seeing a movie in years, but it was a fun week. Fortunately, catching up won't be as hard as it could be, because we're entering the "one big release and...

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...

Huh, just two weeks after the last Chinese movie about social media deception to arrive in Boston months after playing its native territory, but with only crappy showtimes. I half-wonder if someone at AMC's booking department looked at the surprisin...

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...

I mentioned in the "Next Week" post that it's kind of crazy to me that Makoto Shinkai is such a big deal now. I saw The Place Promised in Our Early Years at the first Fantasia festival I attended, and "Voices of a Distant Star" s...