What I’m Seeing: I’m going with The Beast at Cinemapolis for this week’s theatrical screening.
Also in Theaters: Challengers, which is at both Cinemapolis and the Regal Ithaca Mall, is penciled in as my theatrical selection for next week. The Fall Guy, which opens at the Regal today, will likely work its way up to the top of my list later in May. The best new movie now playing in Ithaca that I’ve seen is Dune: Part Two, which remains at the Regal. Civil War, which is there and at Cinemapolis, is neither as good nor as bad as you’ve heard, but it’s definitely worth seeing so that you can form your own opinion. Finally, repertory pickings are slim with Cornell Cinema done until fall following a “mystery screening” tonight, but options worth considering include Amélie, which opens at Cinemapolis tomorrow and runs all week, and Alien, which closes at the Regal tonight, but definitely not Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, which: why is this back in theaters?
Home Video: I typically make it a point to only recommend movies in this space that I have watched recently, but decided to make an exception after reading in the New York Times yesterday that Uncut Gems is leaving Netflix on May 8. It would have been a shoo-in for my Top Ten Movies of 2019 list had I made one that year and I remember it fondly every time one of my sports books runs a promo that suckers me into a silly NBA parley, which happens more often than I’d like to admit. I haven’t seen it since right before the pandemic, though, and my loving wife hasn’t seen it all, so this definitely what we’ll be watching this weekend!
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