‘Days of Heaven’ and ‘Halloween’ vie for eyes, but ‘Gamera vs. Viras’ is kaiju kitsch perfection
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include some Terrence Malick and Brian De Palma, a bit of a giant, radioactive turtle playing hero in Japan and a recognition that we’re halfway to Halloween. And what better way than with three “Halloween” flicks?
Of Beavers and Boys, reviewed: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ and ‘Boy Kills World’
Cult camp is an odd genre bucket that collects a vast variety of films dumped there for varying reasons – such as these two, one which opens this week.
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’: Team fighting Nazis is true to life with a blast of Richie
Real-life derring-do from a ragtag team of World War II commandos trying to cripple the Nazi naval war machine – with the flash of Guy Ritchie.
‘Challengers’: Triples tennis, lacking in rules
Luca Guadagnino’s latest is a fierce, fast passion play in the ranks of pro tennis with two former besties and the woman who’s literally between them.
See masterpieces ‘Metropolis’ and ‘Deer Hunter’ and see if you can decide which Gatsby is greater
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent science fiction masterpiece “Metropolis” with live musical accompaniment, spooky doings for Space Week, Michael Cimino’s 1978 Best Picture winner “The Deer Hunter,” dual Gatsbys and more.
Reviewed: ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ and ‘We Grown Now’ in theaters
In theaters now is David and Nathan Zellner’s “Sasquatch Sunset” and Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now.”
‘Housekeeping for Beginners’: Sometimes family is your gay husband, his lover and your dead girlfriend’s daughters
Amid the endless cigarettes and constant noise of Goran Stolevski’s “Housekeeping for Beginners,” something truly beautiful emerges.
‘The Beast’: Meeting again for the first time, hopping from disaster to disaster via DNA
There’s dread and desire in every frame of this time-hopping tale that borrows lightly from Henry James and plenty of cinematic source material.
‘Civil War’: For correspondents in a torn country with echoes of today, any side is the wrong side
Some might call this a manipulative stoking of fears, and they’d be right, but the charge is forgotten as Alex Garland stages a phenomenally choreographed siege of Washington, D.C., that’s as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.
‘Muppet Madness’ keeps pace with Marathon and there’s space at The Brattle: ‘2001’ is first
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Wicked Queer fest fare at The Brattle (which also has “Muppet Madness” and a 2024 Space Film Festival), very different Somerville Theatre noirs and poetic works by Margaret Tait at the Harvard Film Archive.
