Kore-eda Hirokazu delivers ‘Monster’ and more to The Brattle; ‘Jaws’ swallows New Hollywood
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include six from Kore-eda Hirokazu, with the filmmaker giving Q&As and collecting a Chlotrudis Film Society award, and classics including “Jaws” at Kendall and noir greats in Davis Square.
‘Love Lies Bleeding’: Noir goes to the gym, coming out taut and sweaty (with big hair)
“Love Lies Bleeding,” a delightfully audacious lesbian crime noir from Rose Glass, is edgy, free of tropes and seared tight by a kind of angry authenticity.
Eight holidays created by geeks, nerds, wonks and the counterculture grown since the 1970s
Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.
Filmmaker Muchnik found way back from a blow with ‘Open Space,’ and Cambridge flocks to fill it
During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker and educator Federico Muchnik had his own crisis unfold within the global one. He found his way back by filming community at Cambridge‘s Danehy Park with footage that became a documentary, “Open Space.”
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Sofiane Pamart, pies and St. Patrick’s Day
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an outdoors Parka Dance Party, comic book drag, music for St. Patrick’s Day, storytelling and brain science and visits from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Alan Cumming.
Use Oscars time on winners by Columbia Studios, catching ‘The Getaway’ and ‘Not a Pretty Picture’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Oscar picks for Best Picture to catch up, greats from Columbia Studios from 1934 onward, giving director Martha Coolidge her due, Sam Peckinpah’s hardboiled “The Getaway” at Kendall and a review of Julio Torres’ “Problemista.”
‘Dune: Part Two’: Feudalism and colonialism vie with the giant sandworm for best space monster
The continuation of Denis Villeneuve’s reenvisioning of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi saga is bigger, a notch better and more filled with action.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from maple syrup and rap to academic surrender
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”
Don’t miss the surprising ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ or Oscar-nominated ‘Perfect Days,’ ‘Daughters’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a modern oddity – a new silent slapstick called “Hundreds of Beavers” – as well as repertory fare including “Predator” and new works including the doc “Four Daughters” and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.”
Five Somerville celebrities from the White House to the big screen and across the restaurant scene
Somerville has celebrities of its own, folks who were born here, raised here or chose to live here for a while and have made their mark nationally and even globally, sometimes for the best of reasons and sometimes for the silliest.
