Updated: 2024-01-26 16:39:00
A movie whose release was built around the Oscars gets no nominations, enough nominees were released early enough that they have to get brought back, and that squeezes the movie I most wanted this weekend out. It's a goofy weekend!
That big release is Origin, which looks to be something between Ava Duvernay adapting Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste and making a film about the research and writing
Updated: 2024-01-19 16:47:00
Oscar nominations this week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get things returning or gaining screens/shows come Wednesday. For now, it's another week of small/odd openings. Or not-openings; I'm seeing some ads online for Which Brings Me to You, and saw a trailer a week or so ago, but nope!
Sci-fi thriller I.S.S. offers up Ariana DeBose and Chris Messina as two American astronauts aboard the
Updated: 2024-01-12 18:01:00
A bit deeper into the new year, and things are getting a bit more chaotic as theaters try to guess what's going to be on various top-ten lists, Oscar nominations, and the like, and try to keep some around (and available for Academy voters who live in the Boston area, but also open some new stuff (which may or may not be any good) to clear out some of what folks aren't watching.
The Beekeeper
Updated: 2024-01-05 15:40:00
First week of January is traditionally crud-and-oddities time, with the occasional potential award contender poking through the (hypothetical) snow as well.
The weeks' biggest premiere is Night Swim, a Blumhouse horror flick about an evil swimming pool whose trailer genuinely has me wondering if the heroine is supposed to be blind despite their being little indication that's the case. It's at
