As The Brattle nears full reopening to the public, welcome Cinema Week, ‘Too Late’ and ‘Orphans’
The Landmark Kendall Square Cinema entices people back to the big screen with a week of discounts, The Brattle prepares to enlarge everything you streamed at home in 2020 and new releases arrive for review: “Too Late,” “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” and “12 Mighty Orphans.”
Documentaries for body cams and stamp con; possible pick for Juneteenth; and ‘Vicious Fun’
Anticipating the Emancipation Day celebration, consider an odd turn of history in “Free State of Jones.” Things get even more real with a documentary about the moving image, police body cams and image as evidence and a postal pondering, and there are some blood-pumping genre pieces to see too.
North Point to get 12-story life-science building, MIT buys gas station, advances its Kendall tower
Plenty has been going on in development this spring, including an environmentally focused building planned for North Point’s Parcel U, a slew of MIT moves and more on BioMed Realty’s push into Somerville.
‘In the Heights’: Movie with a song in its heart
Before there was “Hamilton,” the hottest ticket on Broadway, there was this Lin Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes musical about a hot summer in Washington Heights, where music and dreams drive the pulse of a multifaceted Latinx community.
Foundry is bringing on its executive director, resident with museum and equity experience
The Foundry community building is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2022, but it already has an executive director in Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas, who begins work full time this August.
Coronavirus edition 65: Theater reopenings, Memorial Day films and a missing Romero
This potentially final take on pandemic-era cinema includes a look at theater reopenings in Cambridge and Somerville, Memorial Day viewing and a couple of new streaming options: George Romero’s long-missing “The Amusement Park” and the mysterious drama “My True Fairytale.”
‘A Quiet Place Part II’: After an explosive start, back to a world of even more menacing silence
This “Part II” is just as taut and lean as its predecessor, covering a lot of ground in 90-plus minutes by following multiple threads and making some nice new additions in Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou.
What some affordable housing proponents miss
There are far safer and better ways of providing affordable housing than Cambridge’s current zoning approaches.
‘Cruella’: Villain’s high-fashion origin story proves character isn’t all black-and-white
The backstory on Cruella de Vil, the villainess so indelible in Disney’s 60-year-old “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” franchise, is a dark one, but with high-end style, a banging soundtrack and a kitschy snazziness of caricature from Emma Stone and Emma Thompson.
Coronavirus edition 64: Brattle reopens in July, but until then there’s a streaming ‘New Order’
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes Michel Franco’s dystopian “New Order” and newer fare such as “Those Who Want Me Dead,” but the real news is that the waning of the coronavirus pandemic is bringing The Brattle Theater back to life.
