Coolidge in the News: "Why the moviegoing experience remains special — and in Greater Boston especially"

I’m late. The movie starts in five minutes, and I’m 13 away, trapped on the Red Line. The Brattle Theatre, in Cambridge, has a timeless feel, a faded red-brick barn in the federal Harvard style. But that does nothing to change the basic timeliness of a movie theater: the show starts now and won’t wait for you.

I belong to a generation that has taken for granted something radical: Movies come to us, so we don’t go to the movies. Netflix-and-chill slayed dinner-and-a-show, and few seem to mourn. Why should they?

This Week

  • A high-energy, unorthodox comedy juggling show sure to delight people of all ages. 

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  • From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, starring Jessie Buckley, and Paul Mescal. 

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  • The new movie from master filmmaker  Kleber Mendonça Filho starring, Wagner Moura in a career-defining performance. 

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  • “I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie." - Quentin Tarantino 

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  • Post-film discussion with director Kim A. Snyder and librarian & author Cynthia Levinson, moderated by Alex Schaffner.

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  • Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. 

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  • The new film from Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World), starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning.

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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia.

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  • Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Boston.

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  • This Christmas, the snow hits the fan.

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  • John McTiernan's Christmas classic, starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman.

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  • The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as told by everyone's favorite band of Muppets! 

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