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Time Out
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
These are the most beautiful outdoor cinemas in the U.S., says new ranking
We all love watching a movie unfold on the big screen outside—whether perched on your picnic blanket with a bottle of wine or reclining in your car with popcorn and soda. And if it so happens that the place where the movie is shown features an incredible backdrop of its own—a wooded space or a beautiful city skyline—that just makes the experience all the more inviting. It's cinematography on a grand scale! And Time Out celebrated just that with its newly revealed list of the most beautiful outdoor cinemas in the U.S. Coming out on top in America (and No. 4 on the worldwide list) is Cinespia at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. It may provide an eerie setting to watch a movie in a cemetery but don't worry; you'll be sitting on a grassy lawn and not a gravestone. Bring your blanket and your own snacks to watch the film projected onto the back of a mausoleum. Silver screen ghosts will radiate approval around you, like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Cecil B DeMille, who are all buried here. This summer's remaining shows include Psycho, Zoolander, Point Break and The Addams Family (Anjelica Houston and Christina Ricci at their best!), as well as a double feature 'Full Moon Slumber Party' with An American Werewolf in London and The Lost Boys. The outdoor screenings include extras like themed photobooths and DJ fireworks sometimes. Second on our domestic list (No. 17 worldwide) is Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside Denver, Colorado. While mainly known as a live concert venue nestled in (what else?) monolithic red rocks with spectacular views over the scrub brush dotted hillsides, the Film on the Rocks movie series opens when warm weather hits the Rockies. This summer, there are five showings total, with one left on August 18: Shrek 2. This extraordinary venue has to be seen to be believed; it's breathtaking. If you arrive early, it's fun to scramble over the rows of backless stone steps that provide seating. And coming in at No. 23 worldwide is the Rooftop Cinema Club in Los Angeles. (We can personally attest that this is a great place to see The Shining!) You'll arrive just as the sun sets to grab food and beverages from the rooftop snack bar—and to grab photos of the city seen from above. You'll get your own personal headphone set to ensure you dial up the volume you want while you sit back and take in a big-screen favorite. (RCC showcases new releases as well as cult classics.) The club has eight locations across the U.S., but only the downtown L.A. location puts you in the heart of movie-making country.
Boston Globe
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Free summer events: Somerville's ArtBeat festival, Keanu on the Waterfront, and more
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in 1991 film "Point Break," directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Richard Foreman/Advertisement SURF'S UP Where better to watch Keanu Reeves go up against a group of bank-robbing surfers in 'Point Break' than by Boston's Waterfront? On Wednesday, the Coolidge Corner Theatre will host a free outdoor screening of the 1991 cult classic at the Greenway's Wharf District Park. But it won't just be mindless fun — to kick off the program, an MIT neuroscientist will teach attendees about the science behind the film's high-octane action. July 16, 8 p.m. Wharf District Park, 74-8 Milk St. PEP IN YOUR STEP Evening walks in Fenway will be soundtracked by free-flowing jazz from Noah Allen & the Peace, who will play a mix of original music and jazz standards by the likes of Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. The group will perform as part of this year's Swingin' in the Fens, a free outdoor concert series hosted by Berklee College of Music and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. July 16, 6:30 p.m. Ramler Park, 130 Peterborough St. Advertisement Noah Allen will perform with his group at this year's Swingin' in the Fens concert in Ramler Park. Noah Allen MUSIC AND MOVEMENT Looking for a weekly pick-me-up? Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción's Tito Puente Latin Music Series will liven up parks around Boston every Thursday through Aug. 14, and attendees can join salsa dance lines led by MetaMovements, a transnational Latin dance collective based in Caribbean nations and around the US. This week, tropical music singer Hugo Díaz will perform at the Plaza Betances park in the South End. July 17, 7 p.m. Plaza Betances, 100 W. Dedham St. HERBS GALORE Every Thursday, the Superette Herb Garden in Seaport opens its doors for herb harvesting, where attendees can take home their pick of fresh mint, dill, cilantro, and basil. Neighboring restaurant Borrachito Taqueria & Spirits is offering a 'Herb Your Enthusiasm' cocktail, so you can see those herbs in action, but keep in mind: This pour's not for free. Thursdays, 4-6 p.m. The Superette, 131 Seaport Blvd. PRETEND IT'S NOT HOT Local musicians, artisans, and food vendors populate the streets of Davis Square for the 37th annual ArtBeat festival on Saturday. For this year's theme, 'Freeze,' interactive activities like arctic animal mask making, frosty decorations throughout the streets, and a juggling snowman stilt walker turn the neighborhood into a winter wonderland. Events will take place throughout the day, including a multicultural dance showcase at the Somerville Theatre's Crystal Ballroom. July 19, noon-9 p.m. Davis Square, 1 Davis Square, Somerville. Advertisement GONE GOLFING Swing an iron with Old Ironsides at the USS Constitution Museum, where a free mini golf course will be open through the end of October. Each hole on the multi-obstacle course features a fact about the US Navy to celebrate its 250th anniversary. Daily, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. USS Constitution Museum, 88 Constitution Road. A WALK TO REMEMBER Take a walk with history by embarking on the African American Women in 19th-century Cambridge walking tour. The self-guided educational experience was curated by Harvard's History Department and the Cambridge Black History Project, and visits the homes of civic leader Maria L. Baldwin and novelist Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, as well as other spaces occupied and owned by influential Black women who left their mark on the city. Tour begins at the Maria Baldwin House, 196 Prospect St., Cambridge. Send info on free events and special offers at least 10 days in advance to . Ryan Yau can be reached at
UPI
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'Point Break,' 'Timecop,' John Woo movies coming to digital 4K
1 of 3 | Keanu Reeves, seen at the "Ballerina" premiere in Los Angeles, stars "Point Break," coming to 4K digital. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo June 18 (UPI) -- Shout! Studios announced the digital 4K releases of Point Break, Timecop and several Hong Kong films on Wednesday. The two Hollywood films are available Friday for rent or purchase in 4K for the first time. The A Better Tomorrow trilogy premieres digitally on July 8. John Woo directed the first two and Tsui Hark the third, all starring Chow Yun-fat. Woo and Chow's The Killer and Tsui's Peking Opera Blues become available July 22. Shout! released physical 4K UHDs of Point Break and Timecop. Point Break stars Patrick Swayze as an FBI agent who goes undercover with surfers led by Patrick Swayze to catch a gang of bank robbers. Timecop stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as a time-traveling policeman. Shout! made a deal to distribute the Golden Princess library under its Hong Kong Classics banner. A collection of Jet Li films and City on Fire, also starring Chow, are planned for 4K UHD. A Better Tomorrow launched Woo's signature action style with slow motion moves and gangsters shooting two guns at once. Those, along with The Killer, made Chow a leading Hong Kong action star. They would also reteam for Hard Boiled and Once a Thief. Woo directed a remake of The Killer starring Nathalie Emmanuelle and Omar Sy last year. Tsui also directed and produced the Once Upon a Time in China films and produced Chinese Ghost Story and Iron Monkey films. Peking Opera Blues is an action comedy starring Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Shout! plans to release the Chinese Ghost Story trilogy August 5 and Woo's A Bullet in the Head in 4K on Aug 19.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Ballerina' Is Not the ‘John Wick' Spinoff You're Looking For
So many of us stumbled blindly into that first John Wick movie, back in 2014 — how were we ever so young and innocent?! — and settled in for what seemed like a simple B-movie starring one half of the Point Break bromance duo/Bill and Ted team. From the moment that Keanu Reeves slapped a gold coin down on the Continental Hotel's check-in counter, however, audiences slowly realized that this kinetic revenge thriller was taking place in a unique ecosphere of its own. This was just one corner of a far larger sandbox, filled with bespoke hospitality services, crime-syndicate clans, mysterious cabals, weapons sommeliers, and networks of switchboard operators decked out in rockabilly couture. No one was necessarily asking for another cinematic universe. But the more you poked around the franchise's nooks and crannies, pored through its various customs and protocols, the deeper the series got its hooks into you. You don't world-build to this degree without a bigger world-conquering plan in your back pocket, especially once you've taken your king off the chessboard after four games. (Temporarily, but still.) Spinoffs and side missions were inevitable, as was the reality that, bereft of Reeves' deadpan charisma, these projects' returns might be diminishing; The Continental, a Peacock limited series devoted to the early years of the hotelier who caters to hit men, isn't as bad as you've heard and isn't exactly what you'd term 'good.' Further digging into the lore that's now a key part of the series, Ballerina both hopes to officially establish a new antihero to take up the reigns and double down on the mythology. At its best, this tale of a young female assassin seeking vengeance and wreaking havoc is one more chance to see expertly choreographed mayhem. At its worst, it plays like a Wick-ipedia sub-entry ambitiously pumped up to main-event status. Let's just say the balance tilts toward the latter more than you'd like. More from Rolling Stone 'Bring Her Back' Proves the 'Talk to Me' Guys Aren't One-Hit Wonders 'Karate Kid: Legends' Is a Kick for Hardcore Fans Only Keanu Reeves Is a 'Budget Guardian Angel' in Aziz Ansari-Directed Comedy Trailer So, remember that briefly glimpsed ballet academy in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum? This is where Eve will learn the fine art of killing. Having watched her father killed by a criminal known as the Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne), the girl is found by Winston (Ian McShane), manager of the Continental. He brings her to the Tarkovsky Theater, home of New York's Ruska Roma and where the Director (Anjelica Huston) trains both prima ballerinas and professional assassins, not necessarily in that order. Cut to 12 years later, when the now-grown Eve (Ana de Armas) is still trying master her pirouettes. In terms of hand-to-hand combat and gun fu, however, she's an ace pupil. Eve must past two tests before she can become kikimora, a legendary mythic creature who protects the innocent and guts open the guilty. One involves a former ballerina gone rogue. The other involves keeping a magnate's daughter from being kidnapped. Both are passed. Welcome to the club! Several years and one massive Ruska Roma back tattoo later, Eve is dropping bodies on the regular. The Director's faith in her has paid off — she is good at this whole murder-for-hire thing. After being attacked by a mysterious gent post-hit one night, however, Eve clocks an X scar on his hand. No, it's not a straight-edge symbol or a body-mutilating ode to Elon Musk. This mark signals that her would-be executioner is part of a cult. The same cult, in fact, that killed Eve's father. A detour to Prague, where she meets up with a fellow killer (Norman Reedus) attempting to flee the Chancellor's stranglehold, leads her to a quaint hamlet in the snowy Bavarian hills and, unsurprisingly, ghosts from her past. The powers that be, who don't want Eve's presence there to upset a decades-long truce between clans, have hired someone to exterminate her. Guess what familiar face steps off the train to find her? Given that Reeves' presence in Ballerina is a big part of the trailers, it's not exactly a spoiler to say that, after a clever first-act cameo, Mr. Baba Yaga himself ends up being a substantial part of the third act. (The events depicted in this spinoff take place somewhere during the third, yet before the fourth John Wick movies, for those of you playing along at home.) The temptation is to think that the real powers that be — i.e., the folks in board rooms trying to hold on to a successful film series by any means necessary — assigned him the gig for both continuity and reassurance purposes. At one point, Wick tells Eve she can leave any time she wants. Why haven't you left, she asks him. 'I'm working on it,' the elder statesman replies, and you half-wonder if it's the character or the actor who's speaking at that moment. (To be fair, that line was likely recorded before Reeves signed on for John Wick 5; the presence of the late, great Lance Reddick, who passed away in 2023, in one key scene attests to how long this movie has been in various states of existence.) In the meantime: See Eve run. See Eve shoot, stab, and kick. Kick, Eve, Kick! These movies lie or die by their action sequences, and to its credit, this franchise expansion pack has a few good ones up its sleeve. The now-requisite visit to an elite firearms broker turns into an explosive free-for-all; this may be the introduction of a new fighting style called 'grenade fu.' Even better is Eve's stop at a touristy hoffbrau, in which everyone from the patrons to the kitchen staff are out for blood. This sequence is so ingeniously choreographed and proceeds with such precision timing that you can forgive it for feeling like one more video-game level to get through. Others skate by on sheer imagination, such as the one in which a flamethrower meets its elemental opposite, and you find yourself staring at the action-movie equivalent of the immovable object versus the irresistible force. Also, in terms of in-jokes: Keep an eye out for a fleeting glimpse of Anne Parillaud, who you may remember as the lead in 1990's La Femme Nikita — a classic that this movie clearly owes a huge debt to. For the most part, however, Ballerina feels less like an extension of the Wickiverse than simply another dogged attempt to replicate its winning formula. It's less 'from the world of John Wick,' as the clumsy subtitle before the title strives to remind you, and more like a movie that's John Wick-flavored. Ana de Armas has already proven her onscreen ass-kicking bona fides — her brief appearance as a daffy but deadly operative in No Time to Die was the highlight of that Bond swan song — but the movie merely gives her a lot of the same rinse-repeat emotional beats in between respectively receiving and dishing out beatings. Director Len Wiseman is an old hand at franchise filmmaking, having made the first two Underworld films and Live Free or Die Hard (2007), which doesn't stop everything from somehow feeling a tad chintzy. The Wick movies were stellar examples of how make lowbrow B-movie genre thrills feel like high-rush art. This just feels like a decent effort from the B team. 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Hamilton Spectator
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Movie Review: Sharks aren't the scariest thing in the sea-bound, super thriller ‘Dangerous Animals'
As if a movie about sharks wasn't scary enough, the filmmakers behind 'Dangerous Animals' have upped the screams by adding what every thriller needs — a serial killer. While that may sound like very dangerous moviemaking, the result is actually taut and well crafted, a worthy birthday present to 'Jaws,' celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer. 'Dangerous Animals' stars Jai Courtney as an Australian boat captain who likes feeding his female customers to sharks and videotaping it, while also offering little brainy speeches about the nature of makos, mosquitos or sailfish while toying with his prey. He meets what seems like his match in Hassie Harrison's Zephyr, an American antisocial surf queen who lives in a van and refuses to be tied down. 'There was nothing for me on land,' she says. She's kind of a handful for any serial killer, For instance, she can pick locks with the underwire from a bikini top. Nick Lepard's screenplay is muscular and satisfying, with nods to 'Jaws,' of course, but also to 'Point Break,' 'Hannibal' and even the song 'Baby Shark.' He says he was inspired to write 'Dangerous Animals' by seeing a surfboard bag and imagining it carrying a body, which says something about how Lepard's mind works, though we're not judging. Director Sean Byrnes has a super ability to build dread and his scenes are crisp without being exploitative. The movie was shot on Queensland's Gold Coast, but may take a bite out of the region's shark cage diving fleets. I'm looking twice even before taking showers now. Zephyr and the serial killer play an engaging game of chess for most of the movie, if by chess is meant she's fighting to stay alive by wriggling out of handcuffs and running or swimming away and he's determined for her to be shark food. 'Oh, you're a fighter. I love fighters. It makes for a better show,' he says, biting into the scenery almost as viciously as the sharks chomp on chum. He also does that thing that all serial killers do — saying he and his victim are similar. 'You're hard as nails. Like me. You and me, we're sharks,' he tells her. She tells him to stop talking so much and calls him ocean scum. The music department has a fun wink with the soundtrack. One scene uses Steve Wright's 'Evie (Part One)' — in which the singer begs his love to let her hair hang down — as the serial killer makes mementos out of his victims' hair. Another moment, astonishingly, plays Etta James' 'At Last,' the ultimate wedding song, just as the bad guy finally captures his quarry inches from rescue. The setting of a boat in the middle of the Coral Sea unlocks a delicious new home for terror. Sealable hatches and no one for miles means screaming is no good. And the serial killer has weaponized Vegemite. One thing Zephyr has up her sleeve is a boy, smitten after a meet-cute in which she tries to shoplift ice cream. He's played by the hunky Josh Heuston and they're perfect for each other but she resists until she's snatched by our nasty boat captain. But even though she blew him off, her boy is suspicious about her disappearance and is on the hunt. 'Dangerous Animals,' thankfully, doesn't try to be more than it is, although the quite beautiful images of sharks sliding through the ocean show, naturally, that we are the species that inspired the title. After all, sharks don't see a surfboard bag and wonder if they can put a body in it. 'Dangerous Animals,' an IFC Films release in theaters Friday, is rated R for 'strong, bloody violent content, grisly images, sexuality, language and brief drug use.' Running time: 98 minutes. Three stars out of four.
