‘The Zone of Interest’: Tending to the flowers fertilized in the shadow of a German genocide
If you didn’t think we needed another Holocaust film, Jonathan Glazer would like you to think again. In his, we never step inside the walls of a death camp.
Pool hall Flat Top Johnny’s cues up in Kendall, identifying MIT Main Street site for reopening
After announcing a return via tweet more than six months ago, the pool and pinball hall Flat Top Johnny’s appears closer to reopening in Kendall Square.
‘All of Us Strangers’: Isolation and abandonment makes for a haunting story of love from on Haigh
Andrew Haigh delivers a messy yet emotionally potent story about the ghosts we burden ourselves with, the ones who bind us to the past and the ghosts we inevitably make by loving anyone at all.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Bim Skala Bim to Passim Celtic music fest
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Bim Skala Bim has a 40-year reunion, you can perform yoga to music from plant biodata, fold origami or dumplings at the MIT Museum, see a Dance/works show and take in four days of Celtic Music Festival at Club Passim.
Re-meet ‘Household Saints’ with cast and crew during Brattle program; Catch ‘Godfather II’ too
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a Brattle Theatre with “Refreshed, Renewed, Restored” prints of everything from the sweet “Household Saints” to nasty “Videodrome”; “The Godfather Part II” in Kendall; and a grueling “Society of the Snow” survival tale on Netflix.
Fight over vital power project is turning nastier with Eversource, MIT and city filings to board
Cambridge and Eversource have rejected a compromise offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on underground cable routes through the MIT campus for the utility’s huge transmission project in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Christmas celebrations to Bella’s Bartok
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s late-holiday shopping, plenty of Christmas stuff to do and Christmas counter-programming as well as music, arts and crafts and games that are seasonal but not Santa-related.
Celebrate ‘Touch of Evil’ and ’80s blockbusters along with the new ‘Color Purple’ and ‘Iron Claw’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include perhaps the greatest B-movie of all time, staples such as “Gremlins” and “Lethal Weapon,” a free offering from the Harvard Film Archive and a slew of new works: a black classic, true-ish tales from the ring, river and racetrack and a cautionary tale from a remote rental home.
‘American Fiction’: Asked to be more authentic, author fakes his way to success in a black comedy
Cord Jefferson works warmth and humor into this satire of race and identity based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure.” The farce works, for a while.
MBTA speed restriction repairs will shut down local red line four times in ’24, for 33 days total
The MBTA red line in Cambridge and Somerville will see shutdowns four times in 2024 from February to December, the longest lasting for 15 days.
